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New Museum on Fast Track
Harvard planners announced in December that a new, permanent art museum would rise at 224 Western Avenue, a prime site in the University’s incipient Allston campus. Some facility is needed urgently in which to put a quarter of a million art objects, and …
Issue: March-April 2007
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The Power Problem Part of the problem in energizing a passive public about the carbon problem is that the term “global warming” is too tame. It hasn’t motivated people like me to acknowledge the severity and immediacy, yet solubility, of the problem. In …
Issue: July-August 2006
The Science of Hurt
The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t sit or stand for long periods. He can’t garden anymore, and had to retire early from his regular pastoral duties …
Issue: November-December 2005
Goal-Oriented
Football player John McCluskey '66 first put things into perspective during his senior year. "My mind was beginning to drift a bit," he says about the fall of 1965. "I mean, football was important, but I'd pick up the news paper and read about what was …
Issue: November-December 2004
Down-under Dominator
Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem prepossessing. The young Aussie stands five feet, two inches, with small bones and a sweet face. Unlike so many American college players, she is not a trained bundle of …
Issue: July-August 2006
Critique and Joy
It was not until 1855 —the same year an unknown poet named Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass —that a once-famous Black poet, Phillis Wheatley, finally appeared in print in the United States. An international sensation when her 1773 collection Poems …
Issue: September-October 2021
El-Erian for the Endowment
More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment, with the arrival early this year of Mohamed A. El-Erian as president and chief executive officer. The appointment was …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Way of Trout
Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of fish, whose body structure allows them to capitalize on turbulence and use the water's energy to propel themselves …
Issue: March-April 2004
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years, listing both her married name and her honorary title—captain of the New Hampshire State Police. A hybrid of the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Latin Salutatory: “Campus of Dreams”
by Caitlin Cecilia Gilespie '05 Authorized English translaton follows... Praeses Aestive, Decani, Professores, vos qui geritis et exercitis nostros manipulos Harvardianos; amici et familiae, qui nos honati sunt sicut fautores avidissimi in Campo Paludum; …
Curriculum Queries
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted much of its last three regular spring business meetings to reports on the undergraduate curriculum. Formal legislation on a new course of study, once planned for this spring, has been deferred until next …
Issue: July-August 2005
Ivy Sports in Retreat
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, universities across the country have dropped varsity sports teams at an unprecedented rate. At the Division I level, cuts began to be announced in early April. Facing declining enrollments, universities like Old Dominion …
Women and Tenure
The discussion of tenured appointments of women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cooled somewhat during an extended airing of the issues at a faculty meeting December 14 (see " Tenure and Gender ," January-February, page 64). Then, beyond …
Issue: March-April 2005
An Embodied Voice
A Latin American immigrant living in Los Angeles listens to the radio on her way home. She hears a familiar public-service announcement in Spanish: a rapid and caring voice, the kind that might belong to a concerned aunt, reminding LA Metro commuters to …
Issue: September-October 2020
“The Risk of Inaction”
Are you a “Steady Eddy,” “Twin Peaker,” or a “Night Owl”? A software company called Opower has identified what times of the day a large swath of American households typically use the most electricity—and is helping consumers change their usage in order to …
Issue: May-June 2015