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A Look at "The Language of Color"
… Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color, introduced by …
Issue: November-December 2008
The Future of Theater
… Recently, actor John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, was offered the chance (“for buckets of money”) to take over the lead role in an established …
Issue: January-February 2012
Anatomy of the Euro Crisis
… “Ten years into its existence, the Euro is a resounding success. The single currency has become a symbol of Europe, considered by Euro-area citizens to be among the … capacities for continuous innovation—enabling German enterprises to compete globally on quality as well as price. An …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Thwarts of Last Resort
… extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the lifeboat drill. Yet these simple, old-fashioned boats … have changed hardly at all; they're a standard feature of ocean travel that, when properly deployed, have indeed …
Issue: July-August 2004
Enlarging the Allston Enterprise Zone
… The hotel, conference center, labs and residences that will … Planning and Development Agency—detailing the first phase of construction, and sketching in a successor phase for …
Vita: Henry Beston Sheahan
… In 1925 Henry Beston ’09, A.M. ’11, bought land in the peninsular dunes of Eastham, on Cape Cod, and commissioned a carpenter to … a cartoon of Beston’s tombstone, engraved “He hated machines.” Now, Beston was convinced, the Machine Age was …
Issue: September-October 2013
To the Rescue
… On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban—August 15, 2021—Omaid … Sharifi was in his usual place: on the street with a team of artists, painting a mural on one of the concrete blast … by David Peterson Still, August 15 took Sharifi by surprise. He and fellow activists spent half the day painting in …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Magic of Luigi Lucioni
… The Shelburne Museum’s exhibition “Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light,” through October 16, offers a close look at the artist, who, when pressed, … world as “super realism.” It’s the first comprehensive show of his paintings, works on paper, and ephemera at a major …
Issue: September-October 2022
Beasts of the Big Screen
… “We wanted to see dinosaurs in places we’ve never seen them before.” It’s not the sort of mission statement you hear every day, especially since … the creatures in question have been extinct for millions of years. But Emily Carmichael ’04 is talking about Jurassic …
Issue: July-August 2022
On the Medicalization of Our Culture
… There are perhaps few academic topics of equal interest to scholars of history, law, anthropology, neuroscience, and literature. …
Behind the Scenes: The art of the profile
… We write a lot of profiles at Harvard Magazine . And with good reason, I think: so much of the story of a university like this one is expressed in the …
The Business of Lies
… “We can’t go on together / With suspicious minds,” Elvis crooned in ’68—though … later, if you feel so inclined, you can graft the title of Joseph Finder’s new thriller Guilty Minds onto the lyrics without seriously neutering the themes of either work. Both guilty minds and suspicious minds hurt …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Constancy of Change
… Great Universities endure —in the United States, none more so than Harvard. It is startling to read through the list of 102 academic symposiums presented during the University’s … to inquiries into the origins of life. The research enterprise, overall, is enormous. Federally sponsored research …
Issue: September-October 2011
“Nothing rankles more than the feeling of injustice”
… Reginald Heber Smith’s Justice and the Poor is in the library of Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center, in the … a Project on Predatory Student Lending, in response to the rise of for-profit higher education and the resultant scams. …
Issue: November-December 2017
Yesterday's News
… 1919 The Endowment Fund Committee notes that faculty members have … set in 1905 [instructors earn $1,200-$1,500, assistant professors $2,500-$3,000, full professors $4,000-$5,500]. The … opens for business, complete with snack bar, washing machines, and one refrigerator and storage room per suite. …
Issue: September-October 2014