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Corita Kent
C orita Kent was a Catholic nun who went straight from high school into a convent in 1936, and then, improbably, became a Pop artist in the 1960s. She taught art at Immaculate Heart College, which was run by her order, the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los …
Issue: September-October 2015
Scholars Galore
What a difference a year makes! In 2005, Harvard affiliates earned one Marshall Scholarship and two Rhodes Scholarships. In 2006, those numbers doubled and quadrupled, respectively. Harvard had more Rhodes picks than any other school, including winners …
Issue: March-April 2007
A Call to Service
Near the start of his address, journalist Jim Lehrer, who collects bus memorabilia, gave a splendid rendition of a Trailways boarding call, which can be heard with RealPlayer [ link to archived video of the afternoon exercises ]. Then he got serious. I …
Issue: July-August 2006
How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
Last summer —seemingly a lifetime ago—the news was dominated by reports of the escalation of human-created fires in the Amazon rainforest. For many readers, the Amazon fires brought awareness not just of the immense suffering deforestation inflicts on …
Richard Evans Schultes
Born into humble circumstances in East Boston in 1915, Richard Evans Schultes ’37, Ph.D. ’41, was a most unlikely candidate to become the archetypal Amazon explorer, the leading authority on mind-altering plants and fungi, and a “founding father” of …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Great Performances: Carl Morris ’03
If these were ordinary times the Harvard football team would be back on the road and back to Ivy play this Saturday at Cornell. Instead, we’ll make another trip to yesteryear with a look at the Crimson’s most prolific pass-catcher. For a program whose …
From War Zones to the North Shore
As a foreign correspondent , war reporter, and food writer, Wendell Steavenson has spent more than 20 years working in cities like Baghdad, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Tbilisi. She’s written about refugee cooks from Syria, the new spice barons of Madagascar’s …
Issue: March-April 2023
Spring, Fevered
Amid the Divest Harvard protestors’ late-April blockade of the president’s office (see “The Divestment Debate,” ) and the debate about sexual assault (see “Addressing Sexual Assaults” ), other issues roiled the end of the semester; several are summarized …
Issue: July-August 2014
Demographic Subplots
First-time timing: Ages at first marriage range widely around the world. In India the median age at first marriage for brides is just under 19 and for grooms just over 23; in Jamaica, it is much higher for both men and women, at 31. In the United States, …
Issue: November-December 2004
At Home with Harvard: Medical Breakthroughs
This is the seventh installment in 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 Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, famous and …
Harvard Launches Sustainability Plan
The University has unveiled an ambitious five-year Sustainability Plan —the first of its kind for Harvard—detailing a strategy to build on existing greenhouse gas reduction goals and setting priorities in five core areas: energy and emissions, campus …
General Counsel Diane Lopez to Retire
Harvard’s vice president and general counsel Diane Lopez will retire at the end of February, the University announced today. She has served in the role since 2019—a tenure that has encompassed a high-profile admissions lawsuit , an investigation into …
New University Appointments
A new CEO at the Harvard Management Company; plus a new director at the Center for International Development. On the Harvard Management Company (which invests the endowment): See “ Stellar Swan Song ,” November-December 2005. University news release: New …
Brevia
Heading home James E. Ryan , who left the University of Virginia’s law school to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in September 2013, will return to Charlottesville as president of UVA, effective October 1. Ryan has had signal …
Issue: November-December 2017
Instructor Angell Shares His Enthusiasm
New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell ’42, who has a long-running devotion to the game of baseball, has now produced an episodic, always engaging memoir, Let Me Finish ( Harcourt , $25), in which he writes about another old love—a machine gun. …
Issue: May-June 2006