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At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni
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 climate change, racial justice, movies and …
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?
Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much? Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a political scientist and legal scholar whose research focuses on gerrymandering, explains its effect on American democracy and how it might be stopped. Topics include recent state laws …
Re-remembering Juneteenth
When Annette Gordon-Reed sat down to compose what would become her recent book On Juneteenth , the Loeb University Professor and Pulitzer-winning historian felt her customary academic detachment fall away. Writing about a holiday first celebrated in her …
A New Way
Though it is not the case for an increasing number of alums, many of us can still remember a time before the internet. When the technology really started to catch on, I was at MIT writing about real estate capital markets. There was widespread speculation …
Issue: July-August 2021
Boston Roller Derby
When not holed up in a Harvard chemistry lab, fifth-year graduate student Cristin Juda lets loose as her alter ego, “Brutyl Lithium.” The Boston Roller Derby track name is a play on the compound tert -Butyllithium, she says with a smile: “When it comes …
Issue: March-April 2018
At Home with Harvard: Women in Sports
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 climate change, racial justice, movies and …
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
Poet Frank Bidart Wins the National Book Award
Last night , the National Book Award winners were announced at a ceremony in New York City, among them the poet Frank Bidart, A.M. ’67 . Per tradition, the long lists were released in September with 10 titles in each genre — poetry, nonfiction, fiction, …
At Home with Harvard: American Democracy
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 climate change, racial justice, immigration, and …
Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights
There are many things about the “real world” that no one tells you upon graduating college, such as: you can take a ladder on the London Tube, but not on a bus. I learned this the hard way while attempting to move set pieces for my first non-collegiate …
The Roberts Court
To honor the life work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) convened a panel discussion of the Roberts Court on Radcliffe Day, …
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Four members of the College class of 2023 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2023-24 academic year. Meredith Johns, of Winthrop House, a comparative study of religion concentrator with a secondary field in …
Issue: July-August 2023
Off the Shelf
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, by Jonathan Cohn ’91 (St. Martin’s, $29.99). A veteran health-care reporter recounts the making of the Affordable Care Act. The value lies less in each detail than in recalling …
Issue: May-June 2021
University People
College Dean Designated Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office Evelynn M. Hammonds Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African American studies Evelynn M. Hammonds , Ph.D. ’93, will become dean of Harvard College on June 1, …
Issue: May-June 2008
Being Alive Together
On Friday, November 26, the lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim died, on the same day the Omicron variation of the COVID virus made headlines. That evening in New York, I had tickets to the new adaptation of Sondheim’s musical, Company . Although I …