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Underground Party
Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some extraordinary companions, with the completion in March of New Year’s Eve Revelers, a permanent mosaic mural adorning the …
Issue: May-June 2008
Rebuilding Churches
In college, Tim McCarthy ’93 was deeply involved in public service—as a Big Brother and head of the Freshman Urban Program steering committee, among other things—and also active in the anti-apartheid divestment movement. When he became a grad student at …
Issue: May-June 2008
University People
Enduring Deans, Acting Executives Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard Graduate School of Design dean since early 2005, has agreed to continue to serve during the fall semester at the request of President Drew …
Issue: September-October 2007
Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
Decades of Supreme Court precedent says colleges can use affirmative action in admissions—but the court's new composition could change all that. In this episode, Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen breaks down everything you need to know …
A "Better Answer"
The search for Harvard’s twenty-eighth president began under difficult circumstances. Lawrence H. Summers’s resignation on February 21, 2006, ended his presidency far sooner than had been expected. The Corporation, whose members (excluding the president) …
Issue: July-August 2007
A Turning Point for WHRB
Harvard’s student radio station WHRB, an innovative voice in the Boston FM market for decades, is facing a difficult turning point. David Elliott ’64, the chairman of its board of trustees since 1996 and an éminence grise at WHRB for half a century, …
Harvard Design Dean to Step Down
Mohsen Mostafavi, who was appointed dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in August 2007 and took office the following January, announced that he will conclude his service at the end of this academic year, next June 30. His departure …
Godmothers of The Namesake
Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent, became friends and, nine years later, began working together on the 1988 film Salaam Bombay! —Nair as director, …
Issue: March-April 2007
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 …
Harvard Calendar
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
Harvard Calendar
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
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
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
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 …