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Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
When he was running for president in 1976, Jimmy Carter was asked to name his favorite book. He said, “strangely enough,” it was Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , with text by James Agee ’32, and photographs by Walker Evans, published in 1941 when Carter was …
Cervical Cancer, Deep History, Diagnostic Chips
The front pages of the New York Times’ s news, arts, and science sections on September 27 featured articles bearing on pioneering research conducted by senior Harvard faculty members. The news article, “Fighting Cancer with Vinegar and Ingenuity,” …
The Art and Science of Class Scheduling
Organizing the Allston science complex has been protracted, but scheduling undergraduate classes on both sides of the Charles once the School of Engineering and Applies Sciences (SEAS) complex opens may prove harder. The shortest pedestrian route runs 1.5 …
Issue: July-August 2016
The Undergraduate Through the Years
This magazine's "Undergraduate" column provides snapshots of contemporary student life. Some columns capture a moment in time; others demonstrate how the more things change, the more they stay the same. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, we …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Good Fight
In 1831 , the abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart lived within Boston’s small but vibrant Beacon Hill community of free blacks who had come to view the city as something of a haven. American abolitionism was gaining momentum, and …
Issue: November-December 2023
Stories from Botswana
Statistics and journal articles do not begin to convey the human toll of HIV. Lasker professor of health sciences Myron “Max” Essex has seen that toll firsthand, working in Botswana since 1996. As a relatively successful country with a functioning …
Design Engineering Debuts
How can aging and elderly populations be accommodated in today’s cities? What must coastal areas do to adapt to rising sea levels? Could the petroleum-based transportation system be shifted to natural-gas fueling—and how? The faculties of Harvard’s …
Harvard Doctoral Programs Highly Ranked
The National Research Council’s (NRC) Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs , released today, gave “exceptionally strong evaluations” to Harvard’s offerings, according to a statement released by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Allan …
New Masters Appointed for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses
Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammonds today announced the appointment of new masters and co-masters for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses, respectively: Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor, and Stephanie Khurana Douglas Melton , a Faculty …
Radio Wits
You’re at a dinner party with exceptionally witty guests, well versed on current events. Lots of laughs: the wisecracking atmosphere’s slightly competitive, though it hums with conviviality. After a bit, someone famous drops by for some banter and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Humanities Medals to Higginbotham, Fly
Thomas professor of history and of African and African American studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and architect and preservationist Everett L. Fly , who in 1977 became the first African American to earn a master of landscape architecture degree from the …
The Classes
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Issue: July-August 2015
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
The director of The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, professor of neurology S. Allen Counter, and Laura Kasischke, a poet and novelist, will headline this spring’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises —the first formal event of …
The Classes
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Issue: May-June 2015
The Classes
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Issue: March-April 2015