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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
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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
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, …
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 …
Football: Brown 31-Harvard 28
For all rookie coaches, there is a baptism by fire. Andrew Aurich, Harvard’s first-year coach , experienced his baptism last Saturday at Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium against lightly regarded Brown. There, in the Ivy opener for both teams, the …
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 …
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 …
Artificial Intelligence in the Academy
How is artificial intelligence reshaping the notion of original scholarship? How are faculty using the technology in their research and teaching, and what are administrators doing with the tools to streamline their work? A May 1 symposium convened by …
Extracurriculars
Seasonal An Evening with Champions www.aneveningwithchampions.org The world-class ice skating exhibition, hosted by renowned skaters Paul Wylie ’90, M.B.A. ’00, and Emily Hughes ’11, features Olympians Keegan Messing and Maddie Schizas, along with phenom …
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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
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
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
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
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