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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
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
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 …
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 …
“Be Unlikely Inseparables”
“Class Day does not traditionally include a moment like this,” said senior program marshal Tarina Ahuja ’24 an hour into this year’s Class Day ceremony. “But we’re also not living in a typical moment.” After earlier speakers referenced the class of 2024’s …
“A Grinding War”
During a discussion on campus Thursday evening, Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, advocated strongly for continued U.S. military assistance in the Ukrainian war effort and said that in retrospect, the United States …
Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize
Urban historian Lizabeth Cohen—the Jones professor of American studies and past dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study —has been awarded the 2020 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy , the highest academic honor for American …
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
Amending Undergraduate Academics
Working its way through an unusually full academic agenda at the faculty meeting on March 1, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) held initial discussions of proposals to change how undergraduates register for courses, allow double concentrations, and …
Extracurriculars
A full slate of activities can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from performances of children's theater and French baroque dance music, to displays of Japanese calligraphy and Native American history. SEASONAL Arts First …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Philosopher of the Real World
When Susanna Siegel was a teenager, two political events shook her world. One was the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a 15-year-old living in Ithaca, New York, she traveled to Managua in 1985 to join the youth brigades supporting the Sandinista movement. It was …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Fruit of Others’ Labor
Sue Greene, coordinator of The West Springfield Community Garden in Boston’s South End, has a few simple rules. Don’t plant trees and shrubs that will someday cast unwanted shade. Grow what you want. Have fun. “I’ve tried to cultivate the idea that …
Issue: May-June 2015
Words with No Freedom
“Free should the scholar be,” claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. “Free even to the definition of freedom.” Speaking to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society, the writer was inviting students to engage in debate and inquiry unrestrained by any kind of …
Football: Harvard 26-Columbia 6
On Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team supplied precisely the right amount of drama for a team hoping to remain in first place: none. In cruising to a 26-6 win over Columbia, the Crimson—either No. 24 or No. 25 in the Football Championship …