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Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
Dumebi Malaika Menakaya ’s Nzuzo I initially appears as a reflection, but it’s not. In the photograph, two women with short, curly hair and long lashes face each other, heads angled just slightly, chests touching, lips inches apart. One woman places her …
Issue: March-April 2023
Off the Shelf
Learning to Depolarize: Helping Students and Teachers Reach Across Lines of Disagreement, by Kent Lenci, Ed.M. ’05 (Routledge, $29.95 paper). Drawing on two decades of experience in middle schools, the author crafts a surprisingly warm and hopeful …
Issue: March-April 2023
A Fragile History
“There it is ,” says Catherine Zipf ’94, striding down a narrow residential street in Providence, Rhode Island, and pointing toward a house near the top of the hill. Built in the early 1800s, it’s big and boxy, with blue clapboard walls, a bright red …
Issue: September-October 2025
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
Plans are underway to create “exciting, dynamic programming” for the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) newly reorganized annual meeting on June 3, according to executive director Philip Lovejoy. The decision to move the 152 nd meeting, traditionally held …
Issue: January-February 2022
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
Conant University professor Danielle S. Allen grew up in a large, “politically committed” extended family in 1970s Southern California. “Almost as if with mother’s milk,” she told an audience at the Graduate School of Design’s Class Day, “we took in the …
Governing Boards Change Composition of Overseers
As three newly elected members nominated by petition and elected after campaigning vigorously as part of the Harvard Forward slate joined the Board of Overseers, it and the Harvard Corporation have voted to enact changes in the election process and the …
Boosting Teacher Training
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) —renowned for research spanning early-childhood learning and college accessibility, and for training education leaders and policymakers—is making major progress on its redesigned program to equip teachers for …
Live Long—and Save the Planet
It’s widely accepted that diets that emphasize plant-based foods—such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes—are beneficial for human health, reducing the risk of chronic ailments such as heart disease. At the same time, mounting evidence shows …
Issue: March-April 2023
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Harvard Law I read with keen interest “ The Education of a Harvard Lawyer ” (January-February, page 38) by Nancy Boxley Tepper, my classmate. As I recall, she was one of five women in the class and I was one of three blacks. I noted with interest her …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard Divinity Dean Hempton to Step Down
H arvard Divinity School dean David N. Hempton, who is O’Brian professor of divinity and McDonald Family professor of Evangelical theological studies, announced today that he will step down at the end of this academic year. He was appointed by President …
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Gram Parsons Thank you for Nancy Kathryn Walecki’s excellent piece on Gram Parsons, his Harvard connections, and his influence on popular music (“ Sound as Ever ,” July-August, page 44). He opened the ears of a generation with his fusion of country and …
Issue: September-October 2023
How Harvard’s Professional Schools Will Cope with the Economic Crisis
In the wake of initial financial guidance and principles for drafting new budgets disseminated by President Lawrence S. Bacow and the central administration on April 13, Harvard’s faculties are learning from their deans what the pandemic-related …
The Context: Daniel Lieberman on Food Addiction
Pick any popular subject in the news and it’s likely Harvard Magazine has covered it. With access to so many leading scholars, we’re often able to delve into topics in health, science, law, and the humanities before they reach the mainstream. This is the …
Harvard Medalists
Recipients of the 2024 Harvard Medal were honored in person during Harvard Alumni Day on May 31. Scott A. Abell ’72, a University alumni leader for more than 30 years, served as president of the Board of Overseers (and member from 2012 to 2018), …
Issue: July-August 2024
The "King of Palindromes"
“Kay fixes trapeze part; sex if yak…” was a promising start, but now palindromist Mark Saltveit ’83 needed one final, reversible word—one that would convey Kay’s questionable character and the conditions under which a yak would engage in adult activities. …
Issue: September-October 2021