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The Magic of Luigi Lucioni
The Shelburne Museum’s exhibition “Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light,” through October 16, offers a close look at the artist, who, when pressed, described his take on the world as “super realism.” It’s the first comprehensive show of his paintings, works on …
Issue: September-October 2022
Forum: Doing Less Harm
T he United States has far higher rates of firearm death than any of the more than two dozen other high-income countries (among them Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom). In 2015, for example, children in the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Resolve
I have responded to many outpourings of disappointment and anger during my time in higher education, but the reaction to the events of January 6 was exceptional. Spurred by an attack on the legitimacy of our electoral process and a disgraceful act of …
Issue: March-April 2021
Spring Sports, Spider Man
Spring , and young men’s thoughts turn to…exercise. The New Yorker ’s ever-young Roger Angell ’42, acclaimed for his baseball writing, summoned another sport, from his undergraduate days, in a 2011 letter included in his most recent collection, This Old …
Issue: May-June 2017
Dues to the Past
MCMLVI masks. For their sixty-fifth reunion, whatever form it may take, members of the College class of 1956 conceived of a custom mask subtly emblazoned with a golden MCMLVI. Design and manufacturing were overseen by the inimitable Daniel J. McCarron, …
Issue: March-April 2021
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early Action Applicants
The College admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants this fall, down from 14.8 percent last year, the University announced today. Of the 6,473 students who applied through the program, 938 were admitted (up from 6,167 and 914 last year, …
Harvard’s Social Media Influencers
Abigail Mack ’25 didn’t set out to become a minor internet celebrity; she just responded to a trend. Every year, thousands of high-school students post “reaction videos” of their getting accepted, waitlisted, or rejected from colleges. The more …
Issue: May-June 2022
Summers to Step Down
UPDATE: See the University news release announcing President Lawrence H. Summers's resignation on Tuesday. The following are developments since the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming …
Do-Overs
Last April 27, toward the end of an academic year when protests about racial inequity and inclusion disrupted routines on many campuses, especially his own, Yale president Peter Salovey announced, “The name of Calhoun College will remain.” His letter to …
Issue: November-December 2016
Brevia
Museum Management Jane Pickering —executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture since 2013—has been appointed Howells director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, reporting to Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine …
Issue: September-October 2019
Harvard Loves Hard Hats
The crimson couture of choice this summer—for buildings and those engaged with them—was the shroud and the hard hat. In a frenzy of construction, the former Holyoke Center (being refurbished and transformed into Smith Campus Center) and Gordon Hall (at …
Issue: September-October 2016
Greater Boston’s Season of “Social Trust”
In late May, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health assistant professor Joseph Allen put it bluntly: “This is going to be a very different summer.” Even as many parks and preserves that closed in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic began reopening …
Issue: July-August 2020
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
Five Questions with George Cooper ’25 on Student-Musicians
George Cooper ’25, a Mather House music concentrator originally from Los Angeles, is captain of the Harvard men’s baseball team, where he plays infielder/outfielder. To date, Cooper has played in 107 baseball games for the Crimson, batting .303 while …
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 …