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Woven, Not Photographed
… Five strange portraits stand out among the Fine Arts Library’s vast collection of historical photographs. At first, the bright colors catch … sportsmen were not photographed: they were woven. The story of these silk portraits begins in Coventry, a city in …
Issue: November-December 2024
Behind the Scenes: When the pictures say it all
… Harvard Magazine is committed to TELLING the stories about the Harvard community that matter to you. … the case for the stark difference between the Commencements of 2020 and 2022—hence our cover choices for the subsequent … after students were sent home and the campus operations of this quintessentially residential institution were …
Senior Standouts
… 1,600 students graduate from Harvard College, entering the wider world with a mind-boggling range of individual talents and ambitions. Each will succeed on … or her own terms. Here, we introduce a mere seven members of the class of 2013—a snapshot of Harvard’s newest alums. • …
Issue: May-June 2013
Shedding Light on Genetic Cancer Risks
… A new study of identical and fraternal twins by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health offers a … developed different types. “The magnitude of that was a surprise to us,” reports Lorelei Mucci, associate professor of …
Harvard Makes the Case for Diversity
… The University LAte Yesterday filed its amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (hereafter, University of Texas ), the latest in a series of high-stakes cases …
The Force Was With Them
… If you were among the 40,000 who saw the 1968 Harvard-Yale game, you sensed an invisible hand shaping the waning minutes of play. Yale’s heavily favored team held a 29-13 lead, but an improbable combination of breaks and derring-do enabled Harvard to score 16 points …
Issue: November-December 2008
The Civil War’s Personal Histories
… Harriet Beecher Stowe —the best-known subject in the new exhibit on the Civil War … Saved: The Personal Civil War , the daguerreotype portrait of the abolitionist author does not sit next to a copy of her most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Instead, …
Alumnus Moungi Bawendi Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the … The trio were honored for “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” crystals so small that they are governed … that Bawendi produced were almost perfect, giving rise to distinct quantum effects. Because the production …
Digital Preservation: An Unsolved Problem
… Given the convenience and potential cost saving of digital … perfectly secure and complete, but still be unreadable by machines and programs in the future. A New Yorker cover …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Fractured Faculty
… Following the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November … that rejected a motion opposing the College’s regulation of final clubs, fraternities, and sororities —the Harvard …
The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
… event so much as to a new cultural climate, a new way of looking at the world, that would become known as modernism. When he … series bears the Harvard name, it was a commercial enterprise from the beginning. In February 1909, Eliot was …
Issue: November-December 2001
What It Means to Be OK
… The doctor asked the man to tell her what he remembered, and … and again, searching his own memory and the recollections of his wife and daughter, trying to make the puzzle pieces … fit. They never quite did. But today was a different kind of exercise. The doctor, Daniela Lamas ’03, is a pulmonary …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Harvard Corporation’s Committees
… Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office Drew Faust Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard … News Office Robert D. Reischauer As a fundamental part of the Harvard Corporation’s overhaul of its membership and … and it shall consider and resolve specific matters that arise thereunder, unless in the view of the Committee …
The Listener
… never ceased being a scholar and a teacher. He arranged to offer a week-long seminar during Freshman Orientation--an … undergraduate seminar in Shakespeare's sonnets and, through the two hours, let students see their president as a scholar of Renaissance poetry whose presence as a teacher is …
The Newsmakers
… When they contacted 48 small news-media outlets in 2011, Weatherhead University Professor Gary King and his colleagues were well aware of the peculiarity of their proposal. Asking professional …
Issue: March-April 2018