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One Shot at Hollywood
“A wild ride.” That’s how Alex Molina A.R.T. ’15 describes DASH , the film he recently helped create, currently showing online through April 17 on Cinequest , an independent film festival. A feverish and fast-paced thriller, DASH follows a rideshare …
Brevia
Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story) took a more threatening turn in October. A group calling itself the "Justice Department"--which has been …
Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection
The Harvard Art Museums’ world-famous Forbes Pigment Collection, which holds more than 2,700 pigments that have been used in artworks all over the world, is usually inaccessible to visitors. It sits behind glass walls on the fourth floor of the museums’ …
Overseers Petitioners Challenge Harvard Policies
As campaign announcements go, it was as splashy as could be: a page-one story in The New York Times of January 15, headlined “How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees.” The article detailed a plan by five people to petition for slots …
An Exchange of Violence
“Before I saw the guns, I saw the wounds.” That’s how anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte—who spent years working as a paramedic along the United States-Mexico border—described her earliest encounters with the devastating effects of the U.S. gun industry on …
Harvard Humor
At year-end, Harvard people are popping up in summaries of 2010, occasionally in humorous ways. Among the newsmakers highlighted by The Onion, the online satirical daily, is former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan, who graduated from her role as …
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 dressed in an all-black outfit—Adidas track pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and drove from his home in Compton, …
Online-Education Updates
Four years after Harvard and MIT launched edX, their online-course venture, in May 2012, MIT scholars have published “Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms,” a review of the field. Its lead authors—Karen Willcox, professor of …
Issue: November-December 2016
What You Can Say, Singing
Here is everything that happened before the audience at the Bavarian State Opera heard soprano Liv Redpath ’14 sing the final note of Der Rosenkavalier on opening night in May 2022. After she was cast, Redpath first studied the German libretto to …
Issue: November-December 2024
Supporting Cast
Nicholas Britell ’03 fell in love with music through the movies. Chariots of Fire made him want to study classical piano, and as a 12-year-old, he took obsessive notes on James Horner’s score for the 1992 hacker film Sneakers. If, like Horner’s shimmer of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20
We’re beginning to sense a pattern. On Saturday at the Stadium, in its final home game of the season, the Harvard football team experienced its fourth consecutive agonizing loss to an Ivy League rival. This time the tormentor was Penn, which scored on a …
What Does the Arctic Circle Sound Like?
Vocalist and composer Claire Dickson ’19 was on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle when she composed the first song on her debut album, Starland . It was October 2019, and the Arctic was in all-day sunset, the sun never clearing the horizon. The boat, which …
Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA
A team of scientists led by Feng Zhang ’04 of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT announced Thursday the discovery of a bacterial protein, called C2c2, capable of editing the genetic information contained in RNA. The research, to be published in the …
Sarah Jessica Parker Speaks at Harvard Law School Class Day 2016
“KnoW THAT LISTENING is your secret weapon,” award-winning actor and humanitarian Sarah Jessica Parker told imminent Harvard Law School (HLS) graduates and their families on Class Day. The earnest speech was delivered before an international crowd of …
Improvised Cuisine
It sounds odd —quite odd, actually—for a sandwich. Two slices of sourdough bread emerge from a toaster, then one gets slathered with peanut butter. Nothing surprising so far. But then a layer of pickle chips covers the nut butter, followed by a drizzle of …
Issue: September-October 2021