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Musician esperanza spalding Departs Harvard
F ive-time Grammy Award winner and professor of practice in the Music Department, esperanza spalding (who does not capitalize her name) will depart the University. In an email to department affiliates last week obtained by Harvard Magazine , the bassist, …
A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead
In 2017, Colson Whitehead ’91 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his harrowing novel The Underground Railroad, a story that translated that fraught effort to free enslaved people from a historic metaphor to an actual system of tracks and trains …
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Discourse and the Humanities Doris Sommer’s article on the crucial place of the humanities in holding a democracy together had me nodding enthusiastically right up to the last paragraph (“ Democracy Requests the Pleasure of Your Company, ” May-June, …
Issue: July-August 2021
Chapter & Verse
James Wallace seeks to learn the origin of, and find more verses of, parody lyrics for “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1,” by Edward Elgar. The parody runs, “My chicken has two legs,/Your chicken has none./My chicken can fly high,/Your chicken can’t even …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Food-Climate Conundrum
… next edition, already well underway, will be released in 2025. The guidelines, she said, have traditionally focused …
Room for the Arts?
Photograph by Jim Harrison Facing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe Institute in 2005, Harvard College dean Benedict Gross has appointed a committee to explore accommodating the dance program within the Quadrangle Recreational Athletics …
Issue: November-December 2003
Gender Gains
In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges facing women in academic science and engineering (see “ Engineering Equity ,” July-August 2005, page 55), both …
Issue: May-June 2006
“Theater Is Church”
In one scene of Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King, the characters sing all of “Never Too Much” by Luther Vandross—and each night at New York’s Signature Theatre, large segments of the audience joined in. “Luther Vandross is a musical icon for black people …
Issue: July-August 2020
Two Momentous Faculty Retirements
On Tuesday afternoon , two stalwarts of the Harvard faculty gave the last lectures of their careers: medical anthropologist and psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman and computer scientist Harry Lewis. After teaching at the University for a combined 95 years, both …
esperanza spalding and “What if . . .” Music
“Alright y’all, what do we need from music tonight?” she asks. It’s 9:00 P.M. and the studio at Harvard’s ArtLab is lit only by lamps. There’s an oval of students on chairs and floor cushions in the center, and in the corner, a tapestry-covered altar with …
Issue: September-October 2022
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Undertreating Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“ The Science of Hurt ,” November-December 2005, page 46) brilliantly articulates the science surrounding the subject. The piece, however, does readers a profound disservice in its failure to …
Issue: January-February 2006
Football: Harvard 34, Georgetown 3
In gridiron lore, Notre Dame has the Four Horsemen. Fordham boasts the Seven Blocks of Granite. Now, Harvard has the Five Road Graders. From tackle to tackle on the offensive line, left to right they are: Adam Redmond ’16, Mic Mancinelli ’15, Nic Easton …
“A Kind of Justice in the World”
The first thriller Ian K. Smith ’91 fell in love with was The Firm, John Grisham’s wildly popular 1991 novel about a young, ambitious lawyer entangled in a Memphis firm that turns out to be a money-laundering operation for organized crime. “My aunt was a …
Issue: September-October 2020
Universities in Public Debates
Should universities take positions on public issues? The Hamas terrorist attack of last October 7, and Harvard’s response to it, made that question far from an abstract one on campus. A March 5 debate on that question at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute …
University People
Heading East Francis J. Doyle III , a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been appointed dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), effective August 1. Doyle, whose research has …
Issue: July-August 2015