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A Man for One Season
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. With new quarterback Andrew Hatch ably managing the offense, the football team looked invincible in its opening game, a 34-6 rout of Holy Cross. Harvard then lost to Brown, 29-14, and played so ineptly …
Issue: November-December 2010
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
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 …
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
“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 …
A Tragedy and a Mystery
A soldier who’s just returned from Iraq, unable to shake depression and violent flashbacks, ends his own life. A young mother, sleep-deprived and stressed by the emotional demands placed on her, harbors persistent thoughts of suicide. A 19-year-old …
Issue: January-February 2011
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
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
Cambridge 02138
ADDRESSING CASTRO Thank you for Professor Jorge Domínguez's ironic and interesting look at the U.S.'s relationship with Cuba since the revolution came to power in 1959 ("Your Friend, Fidel," July-August, page 35). We have fallen all over ourselves to …
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
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 …
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
Complicated Relationship
Freshman women officially joined their male counterparts in Harvard Yard's dormitories in 1972. But 25 years later, when Harvard College dedicated a new gate into the Old Yard to celebrate that event, many assumed the anniversary hoopla commemorated the …
Issue: May-June 2004
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 …