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Hats of Their Own
Years ago, “Happy Committee” member Nancy Sinsabaugh ’76, M.B.A. ’78, reported for Commencement Day duty at 6:15 a.m . While her male colleagues—in their top hats—entered Tercentenary Theatre “without even showing their tickets,” she recalls, the guards …
Issue: May-June 2013
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
Late in the second quarter on a sunny, seasonably warm Saturday 110 Novembers ago, the 50,000 spectators crammed into Harvard Stadium trained their gaze on a solidly built, crimson-clad player massaging a football near midfield. In the thirty-fourth …
Issue: November-December 2023
Picturing Jazz
MASS MoCA ’s exhibition Black Stars: Writing in the Dark invites visitors to reflect on the experience of making—and listening to—music. The installation offers works by the pianist, composer, and visual artist Jason Moran, who also serves as artistic …
Issue: July-August 2024
“Be the Voice of Health”
Mona Hanna-Attisha , Class Day speaker for Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is best known as the pediatrician, educator, and public-health advocate whose research exposed lead poisoning in the water of Flint, Michigan, in …
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2018
During the Morning Exercises of the 367th Commencement, on May 24, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on a relatively small cohort, comprising three women and four men. They include four distinguished leaders in the arts, an area of particular …
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
In 1936, Elizabeth Bangs Bryant had worked at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology for a few decades, and her expertise was just beginning to gain recognition. Noted for her taxonomic skills in identifying, classifying, and cataloging spiders, Bryant …
Issue: March-April 2021
The Outsiders’ Insider
Backstage at the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles, Franklin Leonard ’00 takes his catered sandwich to the green room. It’s his party, in a manner of speaking, and the table’s been set with beer and wine and someone else’s preferred brand of bourbon, and …
Issue: July-August 2016
“No Longer Eligible to Work at Harvard”
As of October 15, 97 percent of on-campus employees were vaccinated. By December 8, in compliance with the Biden administration’s executive order of September 9, directing that employees of federal contractors be fully vaccinated, Harvard is aiming for …
Off the Shelf
Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq, by Bartle Bull ’93 (Atlantic Monthly Press, $35). It’s a safe bet that most Americans’ knowledge of Iraq doesn’t extend beyond Saddam Hussein. Bull, who has reported from and invested in the region, …
Issue: January-February 2025
Off the Shelf
The three latest installments in the Cass R. Sunstein-book-of-the-month-club, as three academic presses publish current work by the wildly prolific Walmsley University Professor (see “The Legal Olympian,” January-February 2015, page 43): On Freedom …
Issue: May-June 2019
Harvard Corporation Elects Barakett and Cuéllar
Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, effective July 1, the University announced this morning. They succeed Berkeley …
Getting His Reps in
During Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s first year in art school, he arrived at the sculpture lab one weekend to find it locked. This was a problem: he had a project due the following Tuesday. “So, I just worked in the hallway that entire weekend,” he says. “I …
Issue: September-October 2023
Radcliffe Asks, “What Is Life?”
In 1944, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger catalyzed a new way of thinking about the chemical and physical origins of biology with the publication of his book What Is Life? Last Friday, Schrödinger’s question and 70 years’ worth of …
Hillary Clinton to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the Radcliffe Medal during the Radcliffe Day luncheon on May 25. Another former secretary of state—Madeleine Albright, the 2001 Radcliffe Medalist—will deliver a personal tribute, followed by a …
Crimson Clear
During the past three-plus decades, Harvard has invested immensely in Allston: to acquire properties, devise land-use plans, secure regulatory permission to develop parcels, arrange commercial use of leased acreage, build the engineering and applied …
Issue: January-February 2022