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Twin Passions
Both these elegant little books on science and religion are by eminent Harvard professors emeriti —much-revered researchers, writers, and educators. Both authors hope their monographs may stimulate some less tired thinking about the disputed relationship …
Issue: May-June 2007
Last and Best
In sports, as in life, a momentary twist of fate can change everything that follows. So it is with wrestler Olabode “Bode” Ogunwole ’07 (pronounced bo- day o- goow -o-lay), who began his senior year as the number-two ranked college heavyweight in the …
Issue: March-April 2007
Winter Wellness
In recent years, University Marshal Jacqueline O’Neill and her daughter, Leigh, have spent part of the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day at the Canyon Ranch resort in Lenox, Massachusetts. The tradition began when Leigh was in college. “It’s not …
Issue: January-February 2007
Why Diverse Literature Matters
What role do educators have in changing and shaping the cultural attitudes and social practices that still—consciously and subconsciously—reinforce what W.E.B. Du Bois, most famously, called the color line? Reading Toni Morrison's God Help The Child …
Harvard Honors John Adams, Wendy Kopp, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria
During the Morning Exercises of the 361 st Commencement, on May 24, Harvard conferred honorary degrees on eight distinguished guests—among them two Nobel laureates, an American civil-rights pioneer, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. (The honorands …
The Library’s Healers
Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid, cardboard mat that was glued, probably in the late nineteenth century, to the back of the work on paper that she now wishes to …
Issue: May-June 2004
“The Instrument of Your Fate”
The life lesson that grasped my soul was born amid the throes of war: If one does not manage the instrument of his fate, it will manage him. Wars have always produced wounds and soldiers have always suffered depression, and even committed suicide, as a …
Sustaining a “Delicate Experiment”
Chapman professor of business administration Nitin Nohria was appointed dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) on May 4, 2010. Excerpts from his speeches and writings appear below: In his speech on the occasion of his appointment, Nohria spoke about the …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Very Image
The work almost always begins, says writer Cynthia Zarin ’81, with an image she can’t let go of: a pair of gold earrings, a decaying woodpile full of mice and moths, a postcard of a painting by Delacroix. “I don’t start with an idea,” she explains. “I’m …
Issue: May-June 2024
The Burst of the South Sea Bubble
In the north lobby of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, beneath portraits of deans dating back to the school’s founding, glass cases adorned by glowing sky-blue signs capture the curiosity of passersby and disrupt the flow of foot traffic. …
Who Are You, Anyway?
I remember when my younger sister Charlotte received her acceptance letter from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling glee among the pizza boxes and Diet Coke cans in my Dunster House common room. Charlotte was subdued. She …
FAS Dean Details $220-Million Budget Gap; Working Groups to Address "Reshaping" Academic Activities
Updated April 15, 3:00 p.m. At a "town hall" meeting in Sanders Theatre on the afternoon of April 14--held in place of the regularly scheduled faculty meeting--Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined what he called the …
Seeing the Ice
A.J. Mleczko ’97 (’99) could always see the ice. As a player, that was one thing she counted on, even more than the goals and assists (although there were plenty of those, too). But her ability to read the ice—to anticipate the next pass, the next shot, …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Sisters McDavitt
Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie with Boston University. Though the teams had similar national rankings (Harvard eighteenth, BU seventeenth) the Crimson dominated play, outshooting the Terriers 17-2 and holding an …
Issue: November-December 2003
Keeping It Green
For the first time that she can remember, clients are requesting “sustainable homes,” says Cambridge architect Maryann Thompson, M.Arch.-M.L.A. ’89, who is known for her “green building” principles. “It’s very exciting. Lots of clients who may have been …
Issue: November-December 2008