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Adrian Piper to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Harvard announced today that conceptual artist and philosopher Adrian Margaret Smith Piper, Ph.D. ’81, will receive the 2023 Harvard Arts Medal. President Lawrence S. Bacow will present the award during a prerecorded ceremony at the Harvard Film Archive …
Pistachio Filled Dates with Yogurt
Pistachio Filled Dates with Yogurt Ingredients • 1 tbsp Orange Zest • 1/4 cup Pistachio, chopped • 2 tbsp Coconut, shredded • 1 tsp Cinnamon • 3 tbsp Maple Syrup • 1 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt • 2 tbsp Mint, chiffonade • 1 tsp Cinnamon • 1 tsp …
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 …
Artistic Harvard: The Inaugural Showcase
A Thursday evening “Musical Prelude to the Inauguration: A Welcome and Celebration,” crafted by the Office for the Arts and held in Sanders Theatre, became a showcase for the making, performing, and professing of multiple arts at the University, featuring …
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 …
Unsettled Conditions
The Tuesday of Commencement week, June 6, was radiant—perfect weather for the seniors to march from the Old Yard to Memorial Church, tipping their caps to the statue of John Harvard, for their Baccalaureate service, where Lawrence H. Summers, whose five …
Issue: July-August 2006
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 …
Residents Frustrated by Allston Expansion
Residents at a Harvard Allston Task force community meeting Wednesday night expressed frustration and concern over the University’s new Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF), filed in October. They called for Harvard to honor existing …
Atwood’s Tavern
every monday night, an infectious, foot-stomping—and free—bluegrass show goes live at Atwood’s Tavern in East Cambridge, one of the only bars in Greater Boston devoted to American roots and folk music. “There are only two places where you can see …
Issue: March-April 2020
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Friday evening, January 27 , was quiet, with the College dispersed for intercession. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby was returning from fundraising meetings in New York. President Lawrence H. Summers was at the World Economic …
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
No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard
The British sociologist Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1958 in the title of a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy , which purported to look backward from 2034 at a dystopian United Kingdom on the brink of revolution. Young feared the new …
Issue: September-October 2020
News Briefs
Sexual Assault Rates Unchanged On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey estimating the prevalence of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students. The data (with 8,300 of …
Issue: January-February 2020
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
Endowment Managers' Compensation Reported
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has issued its annual report on the compensation of its most highly paid in-house investment professionals. The news, often the subject of close scrutiny, comes at a particularly sensitive time. The managers' compensation …