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Climate Change Heats Up
The University will sponsor a panel discussion on climate change on April 13 , President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail to the community yesterday. Given the roster of participants, the event appears to have been assembled over a considerable period of …
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
Known for bold, full-length paintings of urban black Americans, artist Barkley L. Hendricks was also a prolific street photographer. From his adolescent days in North Philadelphia through college and graduate school at Yale and a teaching career at …
Issue: May-June 2022
Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings
The Chinese American artist Shen Wei is perhaps best known as principal choreographer of the spectacular opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In Scroll Painting, his dancers performed across the stadium floor as a constantly changing, …
Issue: March-April 2021
Curiosities: The Art of Childhood
Jordan Casteel ’s 2018 painting Twins (Subway) is a sidelong look at sisters bundled in winter hats and coats, blissfully asleep under the protective arm of a caregiver. It’s a domestic scene laid bare in public: a reflection of children’s trusting …
Issue: November-December 2022
Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in Diamonds
As a child, Robert C. “Bob” Hagemann, M.B.A. ’11, would go out into his garage and break the Styrofoam in the trash into little pieces. “My mom would come out into the garage and ask, ‘What are you doing?’ And I looked at her and I said, ‘I’m starting the …
Yesterday's News
1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given preference in the admission process; the Bulletin’ s editors write, “Inbreeding within the student body would be quite as …
Issue: May-June 2005
Fiction in Counterpoint
In 2005, while waiting to pay in the Bob Slate stationery store in Harvard Square, Thomas P. Wolf ’05 spotted a Moleskine composer’s notebook with gray-lined staves on the pages. “It was something I wanted to mess around with,” he says. He bought it. …
Issue: September-October 2012
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Judge Posner I have to praise Lincoln Caplan’s article on Judge Richard Posner (“ Rhetoric and Law, ” January-February, page 49) for largely avoiding the gushing worshipfulness of the typical Harvard Magazine piece. But I still must demur on some points. …
Issue: March-April 2016
The COVID-19 Commencement
The novel coronavirus had a powerful downsizing effect on Harvard’s gala week culminating in the formal Commencement rituals—the 369 th iteration of which will be rescheduled. There was no Baccalaureate. ROTC commissioning ceremonies were, for the nonce, …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Striving for the Straus Cup
On a windy evening in Harvard Stadium, a dozen cleated undergraduates step onto the turf for a high-stakes football game. While they warm up, the crowd is silent. In fact, there is no crowd. This is not The Game; it’s a Tuesday night intramural battle …
Issue: July-August 2023
Popping the Harvard Bubble
I’m celebrating my virtual Commencement from Harvard while living on another college campus: Arizona State University. There’s a faint irony to driving around the Phoenix suburbs and seeing roadside maroon-and-gold banners congratulating the Sun Devil …
“We Must Cross Over”
In his Commencement address, President Summers reviewed his priorities. A detailed report on his tenure will appear in the next issue. Today, I speak from this podium a final time as your president. As I depart, I want to thank all of you—students, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Martin Nowak Sanctioned for Jeffrey Epstein Involvement
In an email sent this afternoon to faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in the departments of mathematics and organismic and evolutionary biology, and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean …
Shaping Cities
A new interchange was coming to Cincinnati, and it was about time. The I-71 thoroughfare had connected the city to its suburbs since the 1970s, but its lanes also separated neighborhoods and worsened travel within the city—lengthening commutes and …
Issue: March-April 2021
“Go Guard the Galaxy”
Emmy Award-winning neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta was keynote speaker at today’s 2023 Class Day ceremony for the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He shared with graduates what he believes being a doctor truly means. Gupta, the …