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Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
Renowned choreographer Twyla Tharp, Ar.D. ’18, known for her breakthrough innovations bridging ballet and modern dance, recounts her early years as a creator in “Minimalism and Me” at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Fittingly, the show is an unusual …
Issue: November-December 2018
Off the Shelf
Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. ’85 (Norton, $26.95). A sweeping, searching argument, from “biology and…the domains of our thoughts and feelings influenced by biology,” that “women are not …
Issue: July-August 2015
A Harvard Startup on Shark Tank
Family histories are often passed down by word of mouth—imperfect, fleeting, and fragmented. A memory shared at the dinner table, a story retold at a holiday gathering, a name recalled in passing. But what if these moments could be captured, preserved, …
Harvard Class of ’17 Yield Reaches 82 Percent
Of the 2,029 students offered admission to the Harvard College class of 2017 (a mere 5.8 percent of the 35,023-strong applicant pool), 82 percent have said yes, the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid announced today. That “yield”—the highest …
“We’re All Animals”
What catches the eye first are the artist’s own eyes: in her blue jay’s straight-ahead stare, the affable alertness of a mallard drake, the closed-lidded stillness of an owl butterfly. For her self-portrait photographic series Zoomorphics, Shelby …
Issue: January-February 2021
“A Step Up from the Usual Beautiful”
Cliff Amero has led tours of the Essex River estuary for almost 30 years. The unique coastline, just north of Gloucester, with its snaking Great Marsh inlets, sand bars, and wild islands “is always changing,” he says, “moving with the tides, the wind, and …
Issue: September-October 2020
Thomas Lentz to Leave Harvard Art Museums
Thomas W. Lentz , Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums, today announced that he would step down at the end of the academic year—a surprising and apparently unexpected development that comes less than three months after the November 16 gala reopening …
Academic Freedom—for All
More than 100 Harvard faculty members have signed an open letter criticizing President Claudine Gay’s condemnation of the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” and what they identified as an eroding commitment to freedom of expression on …
Winter Sports
Track and Field Sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19 has been breaking program records since she joined the Crimson in 2015. This winter, she made history, becoming the fastest collegiate woman to run the indoor 200-meter. Her 22.38 mark in the final heat of the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Advanced Standing Reduced
Following its December discussion of a proposal to eliminate Harvard College course credit for Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses—thereby limiting students’ ability to fast-track their A.B. or graduate with a simultaneous …
Issue: May-June 2018
Discourse and Discipline
An initiative to promote effective discourse and a separate proposal to broaden approaches to student discipline were advanced at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on December 5. Although not signaled in advance, it was hardly surprising, in …
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
In 2015, while she was working on The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Harvard, 2018), Erin I. Kelly, Ph.D. ’95, professor of philosophy at Tufts, interviewed Winfred Rembert at a Connecticut bookstore. His life obviously …
Issue: September-October 2021
Finding Other Streets
Mark Erickson ’94 has lived only one life, thus far, but he’s considered another one—photographically. It’s the life on display in Other Streets , a 2019 collection of photos he took while studying in Vietnam as a Harvard student. Born Đỗ Văn Hùng in …
Issue: November-December 2020
Immigrant Stories, in Song
Tonight, a digital Broadway concert offers the first glimpse of what will become Lives in Limbo , the musical. The source material is unusual: a densely detailed ethnographic study by Harvard sociologist Roberto Gonzales , who spent 12 years …
“Our Vote Counts”
This past Friday evening , an alliance of 27 campus affinity organizations came together online for “Interconnections and Elections: A Cross-Cultural Voting Kickoff”—a two-hour event to boost voting engagement and civic participation among people of …