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The Future of Food
… A glimpse of the future of food can be seen through the eyes of Andrew Ive, M.B.A. ’97. He is managing director …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Politics of Campus Planning
… city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate, where she oversees $500 million of University-owned property. In an interview, excerpts of which follow, she discussed the major physical planning challenges that face Harvard in …
The Ascent of Man
… Perhaps the last time biology had it together, at least in the … Clinton in the White House to declare the draft sequence of the human genome complete. “Without a doubt, this is the … other diseases—obesity, allergies, depression—are on the rise, less-welcome products of the technological progress …
Issue: July-August 2015
Off the Shelf
… A Sea of Glass, by Drew Harvell (University of California, $29.95). The Blaschkas, of glass-flowers fame, first modeled marine … in late medieval Marseille and Lucca reveals the rise of the modern consumer economy, with valuables enmeshed …
Issue: July-August 2016
The Harvard Medalists of 2015
… Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the citations, printed in italics below. The 2012 recipient of the HAA’s David T.W. McCord ’21 Lifetime Achievement …
From Punk to the Silver Screen
… at Mademoiselle magazine in New York, Carter Burwell’s mother used to chase down writers like Truman Capote and Dylan … in Burwell’s indelible work as a composer for movies. Think of the snow-blind opening of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo … architecture.” Spurred by the looming recession and the rise of punk rock, Burwell chose music. He stayed at a loft …
Issue: January-February 2022
Did Milk Build the Mongol Empire?
… When the sons and grandsons of Genghis Khan ruled the Mongol … How did this nomadic culture—the third such empire to rise from the arid grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe since …
Issue: September-October 2020
Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin
… are people who revel in discovery and disperse dusty clouds of ignorance. Among them was Ursula B. Marvin, who teased solar system secrets … evolution from Apollo samples, and helped create the field of planetary geology—becoming a pioneer among women …
Issue: July-August 2023
The Everyday Dignity of Helen Zughaib’s Refugees
… Studies (CGIS), Helen Zughaib recalled being asked by the State Department for a painting. Then-Secretary of State John Kerry was about to enter a new round of … and Arab countries—she does so not by ignoring the ugly crises affecting the Middle East, but by drawing out of them …
The Pleasure of Noticing
… At the Harvard Film Archive , the staff called it V-Day: the date of Agnès Varda’s arrival in Cambridge, for appearances at screenings of Faces, Places (2017) and Vagabond (1985), and for her …
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
… He was the eldest son of a shoemaker turned Universalist preacher. … 15, his father died, but his father’s message, “the gospel of inclusion”—that God loves us all, asking us to do the …
Issue: July-August 2021
“He Found Himself at a Loss”
… For the DeSanctis family, medicine had always been a way of … Moroccan rugs arriving at DeSanctis’s home one day as a surprise thank-you for the doctor’s care. A Harvard Medical …
Among the Brokenhearted
… Matthew Ichihashi Potts looks forward to brewing his signature pour-over coffee every morning. It’s a meditative moment—beans become … It “allows forgiveness to be a problem, it is unsurprised by how forgiveness confounds and confuses, it doesn’t …
Issue: May-June 2023
The Context: The Gig Economy and the Future of Work
… This is the eighth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
The Road to Romance
… "I'm at that age where I'm crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult … into the broader sexual revolution, which in time gave rise to coed dormitories and the contemporary notion that …
Issue: March-April 2003