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Remembering Henry Cobb, Architect of CGIS
Editor’s note: Henry Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the Graduate School of Design, whose work includes Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) complex, died on March 2. …
Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
“Well, let me just tell you that I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” Melvin B. Miller ’56 told this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to …
Issue: March-April 2022
Teaching Nutrition in Medical Education
When Kamber Hart enrolled in Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) new elective course, NCE 522: Culinary Medicine and Nutrition, during her final semester this spring, she was in part motivated by the benefits to her own health. Students get to cook and eat …
The New England Folk Festival
Why not launch your day with a rousing ukulele workshop? Then waltz over to sessions on English hand-bell ringing and South African choral music before hitting a Balkan dance party. This year’s New England Folk Festival (April 24-26 at Acton-Boxborough …
Issue: March-April 2020
Conceptualizing Small
The nanoscale world is the realm of the truly small. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, about 100,000 times thinner than the sheet of paper on which these words are printed. If you could shrink to that height, atoms would be from ankle- to …
Issue: January-February 2010
Alumni Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs [Shared Interest Groups] Committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club or Shared Interest Group (SIG), and recognize those clubs and SIGs that have organized exceptional programming. Awards were …
Issue: March-April 2013
Football: Harvard 14, Yale 21
You can’t win ’em all. Harvard’s football team proved that adage this past Saturday, losing The Game for the first time in 10 years when it was beaten by fired-up underdog Yale 21-14. The Crimson finished its season at 7-3 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy …
School Goes Remote
The Ec 10 midterm was scheduled for Wednesday, March 11, but there had to be some changes. As emails from Harvard leaders arrived the week before, discouraging recreational travel and prohibiting University trips due to the spread of COVID-19, professors …
Issue: November-December 2020
A Potter’s Practice
In a quiet corner of Harvard’s ceramics lab in Allston, buzzing with activity on a Friday afternoon, artist Ashton Keen is in her studio, examining a clay teacup she’s recently made. A potter’s wheel sits at her elbow, and several large buckets of clay, …
Brevia
Cellist Celebrated The tenth annual Harvard Arts Medal will be conferred on internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, D.Mus. '91, during the annual Arts First weekend. The ceremony for Ma is scheduled for Saturday, May 8. His career and burgeoning …
Issue: March-April 2004
Off the Shelf
Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, by Ganesh Sitaraman ’04, J.D. ’08 (Columbia, $17 paper). High fares, reduced service to small cities, and rotten consumer experiences are a choice, not an inevitability, writes the Vanderbilt law professor. He …
Issue: November-December 2023
Inclusive Design, Incisive Art
Amy Yoshitsu ’10 has been working on a mind map, a document that resembles a street map representing math, dreams, and a spreadsheet of the economic and social resources that go into the art she creates. Main arteries labeled “Systems,” “Racism,” and “The …
Issue: November-December 2023
Iron and Silk
Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set the priorities that will shape the College and the Graduate School. The letter—disseminated in early …
Issue: March-April 2003
The Intellectual Clash Over Final Clubs
Harvard College administrators may not have anticipated the fierce and intensely public debate that would erupt in response to the announcement at the end of April that members of historically male final clubs, Greek organizations, and other off-campus, …
“He Found Himself at a Loss”
For the DeSanctis family, medicine had always been a way of life. Roman DeSanctis, M.D. ’55, was a renowned—and busy—cardiologist, and for his wife, Ruth, and four daughters, that often meant celebrating birthdays early in the morning, so that he could …