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End of the Melting Pot?
In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began looking for a good place to raise his family. He settled on Gainesville, Georgia, a small manufacturing city outside Atlanta, because it reminded him of his …
Issue: May-June 2007
Inner Senses
When Nicholas Bellono brought a live California two-spot octopus back to his lab for the first time, he was nervous. Octopuses are highly intelligent. They’re also known to escape through the tiniest openings. “I just watched it for a bit,” he remembers. …
Issue: March-April 2023
Letters from Readers
Self-Fashioning I enjoyed Nannerl O. Keohane’s “Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude” (September-October, page 42) with a friend and fellow Harvard graduate (class of 2003). We thought Keohane nicely described the tension between the life of action and …
Issue: November-December 2013
Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors
Harvard Magazine Summer Fellow Ryan Doan-Nguyen has been tackling a variety of writing assignments for the magazine. Here, he interviews four fellow students who have tackled writing projects of their own—publishing their first books. Nicole Austen ’25: …
Football: Harvard 51, Rhode Island 21
As the 143rd season of Harvard football kicked off last Friday night at the Stadium, it took two minutes and eight seconds for the long-awaited regime of quarterback Joe Viviano ’17 to establish itself. That was the elapsed time of the Crimson’s scoring …
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
R eferences to Harvard crop up everywhere: in films, in television shows, and in a great deal of contemporary literature. Hollywood filmmakers and respected novelists, from James Bridges to Zadie Smith, have returned to the same storied Cambridge sites: …
Issue: January-February 2023
Cambridge 02138
After the ICU What a relief it was to read “What It Means to Be OK,” concerning Daniela Lamas and her post ICU care practice, by Lydialyle Gibson (January-February, page 38). Although I had found website help for my West Nile encephalitis recovery and …
Issue: March-April 2019
Forward, March
The day after leaving the U.S. Army, Spencer Kympton, M.B.A. ’04, packed up a U-Haul truck and drove from Georgia to Cambridge. The West Point valedictorian, who grew up in a military family, had spent eight years as an aviation officer on tours in Korea, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Frenetic Fall
The fall semester began with a lot of news, including capital-campaign developments (see “Capitalizing,” page 26); the annual endowment report (plus announcement of the investment managers’ new senior leadership—see “Close to Par,” page 32); and further …
Issue: November-December 2014
A Language Out of Nothing
For the first time in more than two decades, Harvard began offering an American Sign Language (ASL) course last fall. Assistant professor of linguistics Kathryn Davidson, who works on sign languages, happened to join the linguistics department in 2015—at …
Issue: May-June 2017
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years
Last Saturday evening , toward the end of a two-day symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the African and African-American studies department (AAAS)—an event filled with stories and music, memories of struggle and achievement, and with …
Quiet, Please
On a bright Monday afternoon, the fairy godmother of introverts—author Susan Cain, J.D. ’93, whose book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking caught fire five years ago—was sitting with her team around a long wooden table …
Issue: March-April 2017
Football: Harvard 23, Princeton 20 (OT)
The white-jerseyed quarterback picked the low snap from center up off the wet turf and headed left toward the end zone five yards away. At the two he was clutched by an orange-clad defender. The quarterback lunged toward the goal line and thrust out his …
Brevia
The Corporation Reconfigured The two longest-serving members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing board, have announced that they will conclude their service at the end of the academic year. Both Robert D. Reischauer ’63 (top …
Issue: January-February 2014
Derek Bok on Technology and Teaching
Harvard president emeritus Derek Bok, speaking at the six-hundredth anniversary of the University of St Andrews on September 14, focused squarely on the application of information technology to the classroom. Framing his remarks, Bok said it was easy to …