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The Harvard Medalists of 2017
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced this year’s recipients of the Harvard Medal, awarded each year for extraordinary … honorees are: Henry N. Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49 , a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the …
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 …
The Healthy Tan
… A lotion that tans your skin without exposure to the sun and protects you against skin cancer sounds like the sort of miracle product you’d hear about on a late-night … important impact on public health. Melanoma has been on the rise during the past 30 years. It accounts for 62,000 new …
Issue: May-June 2007
An Exchange of Violence
… “Before I saw the guns, I saw the wounds.” That’s how anthropologist Ieva … her earliest encounters with the devastating effects of the U.S. gun industry on Mexican society. During a … American Guns, Mexican Lives, and the Vicious Circle of Violence,” Jusionyte outlined her recent research on the …
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
Stamps of the Ivy League
… outstretched to shake with passers-by." Isn't it time that the Postal Service honors Brown and Cornell?" asks Thomas A. … works in the insurance industry. King sent Primus a packet of stamps featuring other Ivy League institutions to answer … Harvard has a 56-cent stamp based on the iconic statue of his nibs by Daniel Chester French, a stamp issued on the …
Issue: March-April 2004
“The Girls of HBS”
… Harvard Business School (HBS) commemorated the entry of women into its M.B.A. program, half a century … with the W50 Summit in early April—complete with a survey of alumnae and the announcement of a new senior associate …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Call of the Creeks
… “mucky, smelly, low-tide salt marshes.” A 2011 visit to the one at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on Cape Cod spawned a series of studies and oil paintings, the latest of which, Salt … with some full-color plates. Nature photography was on the rise even then, although it would be decades before …
Issue: September-October 2017
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
… (HUP) asked a book designer to create a T-shirt for its softball squad’s intramural season. The front of the shirt bore the expression r > g, signifying … cost of academic journals: their subscription prices have risen at triple the rate of inflation for the past three …
Issue: January-February 2015
The “Dust Bowl” Revisited
… Cal Crabill took one look at the “black blizzard of a cloud” on the horizon and started … storms. “It was earth-colored, way far away, beginning to rise, and perhaps the next day it would be bigger and come …
Faculty Tensions I: The Sanctity of the Classroom
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 4, a rare standing-room-only crowd of professors expressed their disagreement—sometimes … to oversee HILT and the HarvardX online learning enterprise. (He is also a member of the board of directors of …
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 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 …
For the Homies
… his poetry beginning in a room with his three younger brothers. If, after hearing his poetry, his siblings respect … that the work will echo and resonate beyond them.” Promises of Gold , released this spring, is already resonating beyond … at least my parents.” Even though Olivarez’s poetry arises in the imagined space with his brothers, and even …
Issue: July-August 2023
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