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The Harvard Sophomore Aiming for City Council
… candidate in next month’s Cambridge City Council election, the height of campaign season happens to coincide with back-to-school … run for, by, and about students—a bid that arose out of work she began in her first year at Harvard. Together …
Cardenio at the American Repertory Theatre
… On May 15, Harvard Magazine donors gathered at the Charles Hotel for a talk and discussion with Cardenio … Stephen Greenblatt that was followed by a performance of the play Cardenio at the American Repertory Theatre. … …
Rediscovering the Unconscious
… Intuition, happiness, and memory were the topics on the table Monday night as Princeton … on human judgment and cognitive bias, which won him a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics . In conversation with Walmsley University Professor Cass Sunstein , Kahneman considered implications of …
Unequal America
… thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet … Since then, the topmost 1 percent have seen their share rise again: it shot past 15 percent in 1996 and crested at …
Issue: July-August 2008
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
… This is the third installment in Harvard Magazine’ s new series, “At … Harvard literary scholars and archivists, literature is one of Harvard Magazine 's most-covered subjects. Here, our … The world-literature movement’s origins might surprise you: “It didn’t come from elite graduate schools and …
Curl Up with the Cloud-gatherer
… passers-by." This spring Harvard University Press publishes the five-hundredth volume in its Loeb Classical Library and, … to celebrate that landmark, also brings forth a sampler of the library’s greatest hits, or, as the press calls it, a “selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity’s major …
Issue: March-April 2006
$24-Million Donation to School of Public Health
… The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) has … a $24-million gift from Turkish entrepreneur Murat Ülker of Istanbul to establish the Sabri Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Metabolic …
Graduates Head to the Other Cambridge
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2021-22 academic year. Ashley Cooper, of Quincy House, a joint concentrator in neuroscience and anthropology with a secondary field in the history of science, will be the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at …
Issue: July-August 2021
Open Book: The Case for Commitment
… As the graduate English Orator at the 2018 Commencement, Pete … add his J.D., spoke about what he called a “counterculture of commitment” (see harvardmag.com/comm-davis-18 ). He urged … has published Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, $27) on …
Issue: July-August 2021
Scene 1, Take 2
… For the 365th Commencement, Harvard went Hollywood, with … this year. President Drew Faust began formal acknowledgment of Harvard’s past entanglement with slavery , welcomed Air … Alan Garber paused. At times, students were supposed to rise but did not, or when commanded to rise were deemed to …
Issue: July-August 2016
This Play’s the Thing
… How to explain evolution? To honor the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species , the National Institutes of …
Undergraduate Aid and Campaign Milestones
… Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of the Citadel LLC, a multibillion-dollar, Chicago-based hedge-fund and financial-services enterprise , has given Harvard $150 million, principally for …
Issue: May-June 2014
New Life Lessons
… I love routine . I think a lot of us do. We feel comforted knowing our lives are ordered, … need it more. If we can’t learn from experience and from other people, we have no place trying to learn from books. In … adventure that got me thinking about life in new ways. One of my favorite cousins lives with her husband and family …
Issue: March-April 2012
Downtown Oasis
… On a Sunday afternoon , the airy lobby of the Mattatuck Museum in downtown Waterbury … and includes a range of objects as diverse as industrial machines to mobiles by Alexander Calder,” says chief curator …
Issue: November-December 2022
Cow in the Yard
… Veggie comestibles. Mo[oooo]vere ad Deum et ruminare and the Udderly Tuba Ensemble jazzing up “Old MacDonald.” … and grazed in the Yard on September 9, admired by throngs of spectators. “Faith,” ordinarily resident at The Farm … “is the real celebrity today,” declared Hollis professor of divinity Harvey Cox, who engineered her …