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“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
On Monday morning, March 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as spring recess ended but classes resumed with their students dispersed around the globe, exiled from campus by the coronavirus pandemic . Before the …
David Miliband Delivers Kennedy School Commencement Address
David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), addressed the Kennedy School’s graduating class of 2015 and their families in Cambridge’s John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on Wednesday afternoon. In a sobering speech, Miliband …
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens remembers feeling like a door had opened in his mind. Having flown across the country on the kind of offbeat, open-ended quest that later would become a regular part of his research process, he was sitting in a church storage closet in …
Issue: March-April 2022
Dutch Discipline, American Grit
Harvard hadn’t beaten Princeton in 22 years. But last October, in Tjerk van Herwaarden’s fifth season as the Crimson field-hockey coach, his team had a chance to break the curse. The Crimson traveled to Princeton on a six-game winning streak, with a 4-0 …
Issue: September-October 2017
Football: Harvard 28-Merrimack 21
I f you were a Harvard fan among the 10,946 attending the 2022 season opener Friday night, you would have been forgiven had you shuffled disconsolately out of the Stadium with seven or so minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and the lifeless Crimson …
A Faculty’s Vision
On July 28, Harvard’s neighbor published the final report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, and obligingly made it available for interested parties ( web.mit.edu/future-report/TaskForceFinal_July28.pdf ). Even in mid summer, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History
Before the Harvard football team opened its 2021 season—its 147th— on September 18 against Georgetown with a 44-9 victory, the Crimson’s most decorated returnee, Jon Sot ’22, manned a position not generally in the spotlight during this era of high-flying …
Issue: November-December 2021
Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Dolores Huerta , the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now the United Farm Workers), will receive the Radcliffe Medal and speak to guests at Radcliffe Day on May 31, during Commencement week. Huerta is …
Thai Tastes in Watertown
New England winters seem made for Thai basil. Fiercer than its Italian cousin, this purple-stemmed variety has a slight anise flavor and spicy kick that warms the entire body. It stars in the wide-noodle kee mao and saucy eggplant stir-fry at Watertown’s …
Issue: January-February 2021
True Crime
Before Netflix-watchers debated whether Carole Baskin fed her husband to tigers in the docuseries Tiger King, before Serial podcast sleuths investigated the murder of Hae Min Lee, and before the televised O.J. Simpson murder trial forever changed the way …
Issue: January-February 2022
Permafrost Fare
Community cookbooks are not known for remarkable scope and ambition. As delicious as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard Corporation Supports President Gay
The Harvard Corporation sent an email Tuesday morning to the Harvard community, including alumni, expressing support for President Claudine Gay’s continued leadership of the University. The statement noted that Gay had apologized for her handling of …
“Harvard Failed Her”
In a message to the community this afternoon, President Lawrence S. Bacow announced that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take seriously her complaints concerning sexual harassment and …
Centennial Medalists
The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the …
Issue: July-August 2024
Israel, Idea and State
Frankfurter professor of law Noah Feldman, a leading scholar of the Constitution, is also an experienced thinker about the Middle East (see “Near and Distant Objectives,” September-October 2020, page 35). His To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, …
Issue: May-June 2024