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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
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
Time To Stand Up
“Making her debut here, let’s welcome the incredible Catherine Yeo!” I shuffled to the front of the room, an illuminated open mic “stage” in what felt like the modern-day American dungeon: the dingy gray basement of a fast-food restaurant in downtown …
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 …
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
The $2-Trillion War
War is messy, and putting a price tag on a war that stretches over years, with consequences lasting decades longer, is a staggering task. Yet in a democratic society whose citizens expect to know what they are paying for, someone has to do it. Linda …
Issue: May-June 2006
Murphy Time
November 19, 2011. The Yale Bowl. There are seven minutes remaining in the second quarter and the heavily favored Harvard football team is being given all it can handle by scrappy archrival Yale. Nursing a 14-7 lead, the Crimson has driven to the Eli 5, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Cambridge 02138
Cass Sunstein As Homer tells us, when the Olympians come down from the heights to interfere with mere mortals, the consequences can be unpredictable at best and harmful at worst. Thus, I read Lincoln Caplan’s article about Cass Sunstein’s years in the …
Issue: March-April 2015
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 …
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized them, perhaps just what is wanted in a Commencement speaker is an actor to read a children’s story about a mouse named Mahalia. Lithgow …
Issue: July-August 2005
News Briefs
How Harvard Handles Harassment In the wake of the charges of persistent sexual harassment brought against Jorge Domínguez, former Madero professor for the study of Mexico and Harvard’s first vice provost for international affairs, a committee will review …
Issue: November-December 2019
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
Hockey Highlights—and Heartache
National Runners-Up The women’s hockey team —under Landry Family head coach Katey Stone for the twentieth season—finished 27-6-3: a tremendous year marked by the Beanpot championship, Ivy League title (8-2), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference …
Issue: May-June 2015
Harvard Campaign Totals $9.62 Billion
The value of Harvard’s brand name has now been established: $9.62 billion. That is the sum raised during The Harvard Campaign, the University announced this morning. From the $2.8 billion of gifts and pledges received as of September 21, 2013, when …