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Ivy League Announces No Sports in Fall
The first domino has fallen. The Ivy League announced today that athletic competition will not resume during the upcoming fall semester, becoming the first in Division I to shelve fall sports. The news comes days after the University announced a …
A Cucumber Coil Conundrum
The cucumber tendril has long fascinated observant gardeners. This specialized plant stem grows straight at first—until it reaches the nearest trellis or fence post. Then it changes shape, wrapping around the object, twisting into tiny coils, and gaining …
Issue: March-April 2013
John Chervinsky
Photograph by Stu Rosner John Chervinsky Like many people, John Chervinsky takes his work home. But what this lab engineer takes home may one day end up in a museum. In his second career, as a still-life photographer, he places scientific bric-a-brac (a …
Issue: May-June 2008
Building Bridges in Allston
As ironworkers assembled the frame of the University’s science and engineering complex in the summer heat, bridge-building of an academic kind proceeded, too, as Harvard’s Business and Engineering and Applied Sciences schools (HBS and SEAS) anticipate …
Issue: September-October 2017
Engineering Dean to Step Down
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, the dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will step down in September, he announced last week. Narayanamurti, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, cited a desire to return to …
Scaffolding and Science
Photograph by Jim Harrison Byerly Hall is known to tens of thousands of would-be Harvard College students as the home of undergraduate admissions. No longer. Those offices having been relocated, the building is undergoing stem-to-stern renovation, from …
Issue: September-October 2007
Will Cities Survive Another Pandemic?
F or most of human history, the link between cities and disease was deadly obvious. In 430 B.C.E, the Plague of Athens presaged the city-state’s downfall. Centuries later, when the bubonic plague spread from London to the Caspian Sea, it decimated …
Issue: January-February 2022
“Edifying and Beautiful”
Curators at Houghton Library are bringing a splash of green and other vibrant color to the building’s main lobby this summer with a new exhibition of rare and old botanical illustrations. Though visitors from the public were not able to enter Harvard Yard …
Curating a More Diverse Campus Environment
After more than a year of study and surveys, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage released its report today, with a series of recommendations for achieving a physical campus that better represents Harvard’s …
Debating Diversity
The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) lawsuit alleging Harvard College bias against Asian-American applicants is now in the hands of federal judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston; final arguments were heard on February 13. In the meantime, SFFA’s suit …
Issue: May-June 2019
Erin O'Shea
“I have a personality that’s like, if I’m going to do something, it’s going to be done well, period,” says Erin O’Shea. (That’s why she gave up full-throttle golf. “I found it frustrating, hitting that little white …
Issue: January-February 2007
Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan with Boston
After more than two years of intensive planning and community discussions, the University has filed a 10-year Institutional Master Plan (IMP) with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), detailing 1.4 million square feet of projects that administrators …
Aloian Scholars
Eric Lesser ’07, of Kirkland House, and Lauren Tulp ’07, of Eliot House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars. They will be formally acknowledged at the fall dinner of the Harvard Alumni Association in October. Established in 1988 in honor of …
Issue: September-October 2006
Undergraduate Education Agendas
I. Gen Ed in the Offing When she became dean of undergraduate education last July 1, Amanda Claybaugh, Zemurray Stone Radcliffe professor of English, immediately inherited the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) longest-running, most pressing curricular …
Issue: March-April 2019
Curiosities: A Fantasy Trip
During a fall jaunt through the Berkshires, follow a bread-crumb trail into the imagination at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge. “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration” (through October 31) features more than 130 flights into faraway …
Issue: September-October 2021