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“A 500-Year Building”
When Matt Noblett, a partner in the architecture firm Behnisch Architekten, started working on designs for a biomedically focused research facility in Allston in 2007, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—many of whose faculty members are now …
Issue: January-February 2021
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Public History, Locally Kudos to Drew Faust for her reflections on Clint Smith’s excellent new book, How The Word Is Passed (“ Getting Close to the Past ,” November-December 2021, page 57). Smith illustrates so clearly the vital importance of public …
Issue: January-February 2022
Stand-Up to Simmer Down
On a campus where student organizations vie for superlatives—from the nation’s “oldest continuously published student newspaper” to its “oldest collegiate social club”—the improvisational comedy troupe On Thin Ice claims a more idiosyncratic honor. It’s …
Issue: July-August 2025
At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America
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 the climate crisis, racial justice, Pride month, …
A Sister’s Plea for Her Brother’s Freedom
Before he was placed in solitary confinement in January 2019, Ekpar Asat cut the nails of fellow detainees in a Xinjiang concentration camp for Uighurs, an ethnic minority based in Northwest China. The elderly prisoners’ hands shook too much to do it …
Yesterday’s News
1900 Newell Boathouse opens for business, the foundation is laid for the Harvard Union, and construction begins on the Stillman Infirmary. 1920 The increased student population at Harvard reflects a national trend; the Bulletin’s editors attribute the …
Issue: September-October 2025
Focus on West African Women
The Harvard Film Archive screens the complete works of this year’s McMillan-Stewart Fellow, filmmaker Rosine Mbakam (January 27-February 9). Born in Cameroon and based in Belgium, Mbakam will be on hand February 8 and 9 to discuss her documentaries, …
Issue: January-February 2025
When Harvard Should—and Shouldn’t—Speak
Harvard and its leaders should not issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the institution’s core function of research, teaching, and learning. That was the conclusion reached by a faculty working group tasked with …
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All Hands This was the roster on May 7 as the Harvard Kennedy School ceremonially broke ground on its campus renovation and expansion (shown above, left to right): Alan M. Garber, provost; David M. Rubenstein, chair of the school’s capital campaign and …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Places You’ll Go
What links Friendly’s Ice Cream, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and the Indian motorcycle? Where did the Game of Life, M1 rifle, and Dr. Seuss originate? Here’s a hint: it’s also where the game of basketball was invented during a harsh New England winter …
Issue: November-December 2021
At Home with Harvard: The Art of the Profile
Profiles are one of Harvard Magazine ’s most often written genres—and certainly one of our most popular. In nearly every issue, we publish longform profiles of Harvard faculty and alumni, covering how they became who they are, their interests, what makes …
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With Thanks Marina N. Bolotnikova ’14 joined the editorial staff in November 2015. As associate editor, she wrote penetrating features on subjects ranging from linguistics research to new interpretations of race in America. She directed, and significantly …
Issue: May-June 2021
Poet-novelist and Neuroscientist-explorer Launch Commencement Week
Formally opening Commencement celebrations, poet Laura Kasischke and orator S. Allen Counter addressed an audience at the Sanders Theatre at the 225th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) exercises on Tuesday morning. Kasischke, a poet and novelist who teaches English at …
At Home with Harvard: The Undergraduate
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 prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, and …
Re-Wilding Harvard
You might not recognize the front of Harvard’s Museum of Natural History if you haven’t seen it recently. The manicured shrubs that used to occupy the museum’s front planter have been replaced by native species selected by the Rewilding Harvard …