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The FAS and SEAS Campaign Co-Chairs
The leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) capital campaigns—scheduled to be unveiled at Sanders Theatre on October 26—include the following six co-chairs. ( Check Harvard Magazine 's …
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THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Miser, by Molière, at the Loeb Drama Center through July 11. Those musical jugglers The Flying Karamazov Brothers present a special Democratic National Convention-themed edition of their show Life: A …
Issue: July-August 2004
A Visit from Bill Gates
Several hundred Harvard students got a thrill on Thursday when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, came to campus. After touring the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where he learned about mechanical bees and …
The Disinformation Dilemma
In the discussion of how Russian operatives manipulated public opinion during the 2016 presidential election, it’s easy to overlook how their malicious goals were easily advanced thanks to tools originally designed to further the economic interests of …
Issue: May-June 2018
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SPECIAL. The Schlesinger Library celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with an all-day conference on "Gender, Race, and Rights in African-American Women's History" on October 3. For registration, call 617-495-8922. The annual ice-skating exhibition An …
Issue: September-October 2003
The Poet of Old Age
When poets die young, youthfulness comes to seem like the essence of their work, the thing they were born to write about. If John Keats hadn’t died at 25 of tuberculosis, he might have gone on to write great poems about marriage, parenthood, and middle …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard Football’s 2019 Season Outlook
The 2019 Harvard football season—the school’s 146th—will begin in the same place the 1919 season ended: Southern California. (See Anniversaries , below.) One hundred years ago, Harvard was a postseason victor and was proclaimed national champion; this …
First Impression
Anna Harkey's cylinder seal, when rolled across damp clay, yields an autobiography in relief. The image includes her name in English, the year she was born (1982), the year she graduated from high school (2001)—which is also the year she made the …
Issue: September-October 2002
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SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the Bright Hockey Center on October 12 and 13 at 8 p.m., with an additional matinee at 2 p.m. on October 13. …
Issue: September-October 2001
Brevia
Michael E. Porter , M.B.A. '71, Ph.D. '73, a member of the Business School faculty since 1973 and an internationally recognized scholar of strategy and competitiven Strategist-in-Chief Michael E. Porter , M.B.A. '71, Ph.D. '73, a member of the Business …
Making Music Out of DNA Loops
There is music in DNA loops. The genome, which otherwise would be the height of a refrigerator, folds into a microscopic bundle inside the nucleus of a cell, knitting itself into “loops” of genetic information. Four years ago, composer and scientist Amir …
Issue: September-October 2023
The GOP’s Return to Ideas?
At the 2020 Republican National Convention, the GOP did not release a platform, instead saying that it “enthusiastically supports President Trump.” The quadrennial presidential nominating conventions typically serve as a chance for Republicans and …
At Camp, a Community
As our car sped away from Logan Airport, into Boston and out along the Charles, my eyes widened as the cupolas of Harvard came into view. “Do I really go there?” I mused aloud. At that moment, I couldn’t have felt farther away from being a Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2011
Bulfinch Magic
Architect Charles Bulfinch performed a death-defying feat in University Hall 188 years ago. He caused to be built a staircase of heavy granite, tons of it, that would float in space, supported (presumably) by its own interlocking steps. In fact, nobody …
Convocation 2017: What Should an Education Be at Such a Moment?
“It was on this annual occasion of welcoming the incoming College class,” University president Drew Faust said at yesterday afternoon’s Freshman Convocation ceremony, “that a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the late Jeremy Knowles, …