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Are We Entering a Second Cold War?
In a discussion of the Russia-Ukraine War hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Arne Westad, Elihu professor of history at Yale University, began with an overarching statement: “There is absolutely no doubt that this is, first …
Finding Harvard’s Voice
In late March , Danielle Allen , Harvard’s Conant University Professor, spoke at Brigham Young University (BYU) on how to be a “confident pluralist.” The crowd was so large that the event took place in the basketball arena. Students surely were excited to …
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
Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum
Culminating her lifelong devotion to art collecting, connoisseurship, and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. '63, has given the Harvard Art Museum 31 important works of modern and contemporary art (one of …
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented its 2022 Woman and Man of the Year awards to Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman on February 3 and February 5: the former a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award-winning film and television actress, …
Harvard’s “Treehouse” in Allston
Harvard announced on December 14 the creation of its first University-wide conference center, which will serve as a gateway to its planned enterprise research campus (ERC) on Western Avenue in Allston. The timber-framed venue will be named the David …
Rebuilt?
Last March, Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard basketball, took on an unusual feel . Coaches in sports jackets gave way to construction workers in neon vests, whose boots marked the hardwood where sneakers usually squeaked. The tabletop machine used …
Sustainability Steps
Last September , the presidents of Harvard and Stanford, Drew Faust and John L. Hennessy, wrote a joint op-ed in the Huffington Post that outlined “What Universities Can Do About Climate Change.” Highlighting their institutions’ “wealth of intellectual …
Issue: January-February 2015
The Untold Story of Watercolors
Watercolors are finally having their moment at Harvard Art Museums’ (HAM) new exhibition “American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light.” Composed of 100 paintings usually kept in storage, the exhibit “provides an opportunity for us to enjoy these …
Examining Economic Webs
“ There was a longish period in the 1990s and the early part of this century when economic history was very much out of fashion, at least in history departments,” says Knowles professor of history Emma Rothschild . She has played a role in the recent …
Issue: November-December 2014
Assessing Admissions
In his new book, The Chosen , Jerome Karabel ’72, Ph.D. ’77, offers a provocative account of undergraduate admissions at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale from the late 1800s to the present—a period when the “Big Three” were transformed by the addition of …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard President Claudine Gay Testifies Before Congress
On October 7 , hours after Hamas’s terroristic assault on Israel, a coalition of more than 30 Harvard student groups released a statement holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The now-infamous letter—and the three …
Women, Working
When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the twentieth century, curators were mostly interested in big businesses and well-known industrialists. "Search aids and cataloging records did …
Issue: January-February 2002
Network for the Next Generation
The surveillance area of Harvard's network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at center displays a schematic of Harvard's network nodes, each of which may represent individual computers or the …
Harvard on Housing
Deepening its involvement in Boston and Cambridge, Harvard has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news conference held November 10 before an enthusiastic audience that included both cities' mayors, state …