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Combating Bias
In early May, when the cochairs of the University’s task forces on combating antisemitism and combating anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias commented briefly on what they had heard from the community, they offered similar impressions. Ali S. Asani, …
Issue: September-October 2024
“Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow?”
As Russia continues its war in Ukraine, many have wondered about the potential consequences for Taiwan. Could China be emboldened by Russia’s aggression, or would the costly military stalemate and strong Western response discourage a reining in of Taiwan? …
Dramatis Personae
Brenda Baker ’69, Ph.D. ’73…longtime scientific researcher at Bell Labs Ben Barker ’69, Ph.D. ’75…retired after 26 years at Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN), where he was senior vice president, and five years as president of Data Race William Bossert ’59, …
Issue: September-October 2020
College Announces New Public-Service Leadership
Continuing an effort to enhance the role of public service in students’ lives, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana today announced that Warren professor of the history of American education Julie Reuben has been appointed the inaugural faculty director of …
Reforming Misdemeanors
Thirteen million times each year, American prosecutors file criminal misdemeanor charges. These crimes are often described as “minor,” ranging from “victimless crimes” (jaywalking and loitering) to harmful infractions (domestic violence and drunk …
Issue: January-February 2025
Wage Wrangling
The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum wage for University workers of $10 per hour (later $10.25), corresponding to a figure adopted by the Cambridge …
Genomic Science and Society
Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, visited Harvard Medical School on February 20, one week after publication of the public and private drafts of the human genome in the competing journals Science …
“This global, diverse, vibrant community”
As a classics concentrator and classical pianist, Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06 still found time as an undergraduate to perfect the “Flying Death Necklace.” The stunt, performed in the Harvard South Asian Association’s Ghungroo show , required him to stand on …
Issue: September-October 2023
When Children Fall Ill
At first, Blyth Lord, Ed.M. ’94, took every opportunity to tell her own story. It felt right, and healing, to honor the life of her daughter Cameron, who had died of a rare genetic disease at two years old. In 2013, when Lord began developing a nonprofit …
Issue: January-February 2023
Mitzvot
“What is the best thing you’ve done as president?” It is a question I am asked frequently these days. If I were to name everything of which I am proud, everything accomplished with the help of many other people over these last five years, there would be …
Issue: March-April 2023
Advancing Art
As a university task force readied its vision for curricular and facilities investments in the creative and performing arts (see our arts task force update , published after this issue went to press), Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. ’63, gave the Harvard Art …
Issue: January-February 2009
Makeda Best: What Does Landscape Photography Say About Our Politics?
WHAT DOES LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY SAY ABOUT OUR POLITICS? Makeda Best, curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums and a visiting professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, shares her insights on landscape photographers, as well as …
Brevia
Significant Works Significant works from three collections—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger— come together for the first time in the Harvard Art Museum exhibit Re-View, at the Sackler. Although prompted by construction and renovation at the Fogg’s 32 …
Issue: November-December 2008
Where Do Overseers Come From?
How are members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers chosen—and what do they do, once they are elected to the governing board? Those questions, of little general interest to most of the community most of the time, have suddenly become salient because for the …
On Being “Printerly”
In her introduction to Contact: Art and the Pull of Print , Jennifer L. Roberts wants you to know what the book is not about as much as what it is . One term, she explains, won’t be mentioned past this very deliberate point of omission: “reproduction” and …
Issue: July-August 2024