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Inside Harvard’s Taylor Swift Class
If Loker professor of English Stephanie Burt had her way, record stores would sell copies of Alexander Pope’s 1735 poem “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” with a snake—the symbol of Taylor Swift’s album Reputation— embossed on the cover. Swift released Reputation …
An Amazon Artist
Collectors have long been smitten with artists’ better-than-photographic renderings of charismatic fauna (Audubon’s birds, for instance) and flora. Among them, happily, was Mildred Bliss, who with her husband, Robert, A.B. 1900, created what is now …
Issue: May-June 2020
Liberia’s President to Speak at Harvard Commencement
The University announced toda y that Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, will be the principal speaker during the afternoon exercises at Harvard's 360th Commencement, on May 26. “Over the course of her nearly 40 years in public service, …
"Justice"—On Air, in Books, Online
One of Harvard's most popular and celebrated courses, "Justice" (Moral Reasoning 22), taught by Bass professor of government Michael J. Sandel, takes its tutelage outside the University’s walls this autumn with a three-pronged media package: a public …
Football: Harvard 42, Princeton 7
With three minutes left to play in the first half last Saturday on a cool, dingy day at Harvard Stadium, Crimson fans were experiencing an unaccustomed emotion: anxiety. For the first time in the 2015 season, Harvard was in a battle, tied 7-7 with …
Professor Holdren to Be Nominated as White House Science Adviser
John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to be nominated as the White House science adviser by President-elect Barack Obama, according to several news reports. Holdren's website (which lists his current …
Advancing Leadership
During 2013, Michael J. Bush audited Professor Joseph P. Newhouse’s course on the economics of healthcare policy and worked with Richard Frank, Morris professor of healthcare policy , to better understand a specific social problem: how to cover the costs …
Issue: March-April 2014
When Having Babies Beats Marriage
In February The New York Times ran a story under the provocative headline, “For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage.” The article suggested childbearing outside of marriage was the “new normal”—that recently released data signaled a …
Issue: July-August 2012
Winter Sports
The icewomen (30-3-1 overall, 15-0-1 ECAC) skated one of their best teams ever, and were ranked first in the nation for most of the year. They won the Ivy and regular-season ECAC titles, plus the Beanpot tournament. Two losses stung. In the ECAC …
Issue: May-June 2003
Touting Teaching
In a year of heightened University focus on learning and teaching , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is premiering “Harvard’s Great Teachers” (for which it has the address http://greatteachers.harvard.edu) a series of online videos featuring …
University Names Goldman Sachs Executive to New VP Post
The University this morning announced the creation of a new position, executive vice president, and the name of the person appointed to the job: Edward C. Forst ’82, currently global head of the investment management division for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and …
Harvard’s 2017 Honorary-Degree Recipients, from A to Z
DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 366th Commencement, on May 25, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on six men and four women. Among them are: a physician and human-rights activist who has sheltered tens of thousands of refugees in war-torn …
Scrubbing Supply Chains
Harvard leveraged construction of its massive new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston in order to coax building-materials manufacturers into removing hazardous chemicals from their supply chains, the University reports. Heather Henriksen, the …
A Love Letter
F ilmmaker John Alexander ’11 never thought he would make a music documentary. He’d heard too many horror stories: how editing them could be a logistical headache, how securing music rights could eat up a budget. But then he met Wichita funk musician Rudy …
Issue: May-June 2020
“Not Meant to Be”
When the Ivy League announced that Harvard would host the 2020 conference basketball tournaments, it appeared to set up an ideal situation for the Crimson teams. Both would be led by talented seniors playing in a gym where they had a combined 80-18 career …
Issue: May-June 2020