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The Context: Life on the Mesopotamian Marshes—and the Specter of Drought
This is the sixth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. As the battle for Mosul in 2016 was raging in Iraq and …
“No Going Back to Normal”
During much of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced closures throughout the country, Ibrahim Barry felt stuck in his head. A 15-year-old freshman hoping to play college basketball someday, he found himself with no gyms available and no school to …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2020-21 academic year. Fernanda Baron, of Lowell House, a sociology concentrator with a secondary field in the studies of women, gender, and sexuality, will …
Issue: July-August 2020
Alan Garber’s Opening Words
In a message to the Harvard community on Thursday morning, as students were returning for the start of classes next week, President Alan M. Garber offered a welcome—and an admonition. He asked those coming back to campus to seek “enlightenment, …
Peabody Museum Removes Native American Funerary Objects
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has begun removing Native American funerary objects from its exhibits, after federal regulations went into effect earlier this month barring museums from displaying the sacred cultural items without …
At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about income inequality, racial justice, Pride month, …
Fresh Start
After a season of gluttony, the new year offers exciting possibilities for healthier habits and rituals. There are plenty of options in Cambridge and beyond to jumpstart a new fitness routine—or to simply refresh and renew. Close to home, pop into the New …
Issue: January-February 2022
Proactive AI Policy
Artificial intelligence is developing faster than policymakers can keep up, and the gap in understanding between government and industry could pose challenges for effective regulation. But that doesn’t mean corporations should develop and deploy AI as …
The Aloian Memorial Scholars
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has awarded Jorge Campos ’21, of Los Angeles, and Reeda Iqbal ’21, of Brentwood, New York, the 2020 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholarships for enriching the quality of life in their Houses. From Housing Day …
Issue: November-December 2020
Harvard Announces Carrie Moore as New Women’s Basketball Coach
The last time the women’s basketball team took the court, the Crimson fell 72-67 to Princeton in the Ivy League tournament semifinals. When the team walked off the Lavietes Pavilion floor last month, junior guard McKenzie Forbes put her arm around Friends …
The Home Front
In his installation address, President Lawrence S. Bacow said, “[W]e must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.” His context then was sustaining free speech on campus in the search for truth. When he invokes the phrase now, it seems …
Issue: May-June 2021
Tenure Task Forces
Addressing ambitious agendas and a May 1 deadline, the University’s twin task forces on women faculty and on women in science and engineering are working under a self-imposed news blackout until they report their completed findings. President Lawrence H. …
Issue: May-June 2005
Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has conferred the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin. She was honored for “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes” according to the …
Repositioning Harvard House Life
On a Tuesday night in early March, the Pforzheimer House Committee convened on a Zoom call, the virtual analog to the Hastings Room where it once met on campus. The crew had a reputation to maintain, and did not take its present task lightly. Juniors …
Reasons to Rejoice
We’ve learned a lot about how to gather since last year, when so many of us were relegated to remote holiday soirees. This year, we’re ready to reunite—withprecautions, of course—and there are plenty of ways to honor the season in sensible style. Here are …
Issue: November-December 2021