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How Buildings Move People
The museum gallery is a space designed to be in permanent flux. In 2008, artist Michael Asher sat down with 10 years of exhibition blueprints from the Santa Monica Museum of Art, reviewing the designs of 44 shows that had gone up in the main gallery. He …
Issue: May-June 2017
Ballet’s Geometry, Torqued
In an overheated basement studio at Barnard College, a dancer twirls with smartphone in hand, eyes fixed on an inches-wide video of the steps she should take. Two others windmill their arms, looking like Olympic swimmers warming up poolside. They’re …
Issue: May-June 2017
A “Players’ Coach”
When the final buzzer sounded last November in the game that won the Harvard men’s water-polo team its first conference championship—and clinched a spot in the NCAA tournament (another first), where the Crimson would go all the way to the Final Four …
Issue: March-April 2017
Trends in Harvard’s Hiring and Promotion of Women and Minority Faculty
With a possibly contentious debate over the College’s current policy sanctioning student members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations averted , the main focus of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on February 7 was a report on the hiring …
The Senior Housing Shortfall
As the ranks of American seniors swell with aging baby boomers, most say they hope to age in place. But that may not be possible, experts at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) predict. They note that there is an acute lack of safe, …
Issue: March-April 2023
University Hits Emissions Target
Harvard reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent during the past decade, the Office for Sustainability announced today. The University’s reduction goal, adopted in 2008 and measured from a 2006 baseline, was met despite 15 percent growth …
Williamina Fleming
As 21- year-old Williamina Paton Fleming steamed across the Atlantic toward Boston in November 1878, she had no idea how brightly the stars overhead would shine in her future. One of nine children of a Scottish craftsman and his wife, she already knew the …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Harvard Globetrotters
Last Saturday in Shanghai, the Harvard men’s basketball team played a rematch that was a decade in the making. And although the Crimson lost the game, the event offered a glimpse of how far the team has come. Back in 2007, Stemberg men’s basketball coach …
Divinity School Launches New Degree Programs
Harvard Divinity School (HDS), long focused on preparing religious leaders and training religious scholars, this fall adds a third mission. It is launching its first new master’s degree program in more than 50 years, the master of religion and public life …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvesting History
Walking through Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, William W. Sellers ’90 stops at the brick guard house where abolitionist John Brown was captured in 1859. Brown had raided the federal armory there, intending to arm local slaves and lead an insurrection. He …
Issue: May-June 2018
Janet Yellen Talks Policy and Inequality at Radcliffe Day Celebration
Inequality —in wealth, race, gender, domestically and across the globe—weighed heavily in the minds of this year’s Commencement speakers. It seemed fitting that the week’s activities concluded with a program Friday at the Radcliffe Institute honoring …
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
Petition Candidates Qualify for Overseers’ Ballot
Five petition candidates have qualified for placement on the ballot for this spring’s election of members to the Board of Overseers, the larger but less powerful of the University’s two governing boards (and the only one whose members are selected by …
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1969, Echoing As an activist in the Harvard Strike of 1969 and the SDS speaker at the 1969 Commencement ceremony, I welcome the retrospective in the March-April issue ( “Echoes of 1969,” page 52). However, the article trivializes the events of April 1969 …
Issue: May-June 2019
News Briefs: Important University Updates
Quantum Quest As befits its subject, the Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 6 is a small part of a much larger universe of Harvard commitment to a burgeoning new field: the rare, large …
Issue: July-August 2021