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Crimson in Congress
In the aftermath of last November’s elections for the 110th Congress, one Harvard alumnus stood very much alone. Representative Thomas Petri ’62, LL.B. ’65, Republican of Wisconsin, is the sole remaining member of his party in the House to …
Issue: January-February 2007
Theater, Dance, and Media's "Next Act"
Through the door of Martin Puchner’s office in Farkas Hall, bursts of clapping, shouts, and laughter erupt from the class in session next door: “What’s So Funny? Introduction to Improvisational Comedy.” Some 140 students came to the course’s first …
Issue: May-June 2016
A Lone Star Saga
“The best I can describe it,” says Justin Deabler, of the years he spent writing his semi-autobiographical debut novel, “is that I was trying to answer questions that nobody was around to answer anymore. And that I couldn’t let go of.” Those …
Issue: March-April 2021
Lessons from the Limelight
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Learning from Performers debuted 30 years ago. Jerold S. Kayden ’75, M.C.R.-J.D. ’79, hatched the idea for it and Myra Mayman, head of the Office for the Arts, embraced it. “I was president …
Issue: September-October 2005
Congo Report
The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to study the Mbuti Pygmies. On a visit back to the United States, he met New York artist Anne Eisner, who was seduced by …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cheering Chow
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s 9.5 percent of our adult population. In Japan and Korea, the figure is drastically lower—around 2 percent. …
Issue: September-October 2005
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Greg Stone ’75 was in a hospital bed four years ago when the idea came to him for the murder mystery he’d always wanted to write. After a major back surgery, complications had landed him in the ICU, where he spent a week recovering in a medicated haze, …
Issue: January-February 2024
University People
Development Leader to Depart With the Harvard Campaign headed for a record finish as of June 30, the same day Drew Faust’s presidency concludes, Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has made public her plan to step down as vice president for alumni affairs and …
Issue: March-April 2018
Decoding the Alphaviruses
The coronavirus pandemic was caused by a virus that made the leap from animals to humans. Responding quickly and effectively to such viruses requires some foreknowledge of how they enter human cells—often by using a receptor common to several species. …
Issue: May-June 2022
Laying Out
On the volleyball court, Sandra Zeng ’21 lives by one rule: never let the ball touch the ground. So when opposing hitters go up for a spike, she trains her eyes on their shoulders. “The shoulders tell a lot,” Zeng says. If they’re angled toward one …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Wages of Affluence
Propelled by a surge in funds from the endowment, and to a lesser extent by a wave of gifts from the final phase of the University Campaign, Harvard concluded its fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, with a $120-million operating surplus on an operating …
Prophet of Self-Esteem
John Taylor Canfield '66 dished up his first bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit in 1993. A native of Fort Worth and a graduate of the Linsly Military Institute in West Virginia, he concentrated in …
Ring of the Road
Currently, 94 million Americans own a cellular phone, and 90 percent of those owners make calls while driving. Although cell phones appeared on the U.S. market only in the mid 1980s, a majority of Americans will own one by the year 2005 if the trend …
Rose-Colored Passes
The translation of Neil Rose from benchwarmer to record-breaking passer was completed in a span of less than 13 minutes. In that interval, quarterback Rose and his mates sprang three big-play touchdowns to overtake Brown, last season's Ivy League …
The Campaign Computes
As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a penultimate school’s launch (medicine); another galvanizing gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the University, …
Issue: January-February 2015