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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 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 “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 …
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
Celebrating the Classes of ’20 and ’21
… T he University today announced that members of the classes of 2020 and 2021 , who received their Harvard degrees off …
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 …
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
… I love the way that patches of wild yellow-rayed goldfields slightly reflect the sunlight of the California coast. The stalks of these wildflowers can …
Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
… Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq … into view during her discussion of China, a country on the rise as “a new power in Africa.” China’s concerns on the …
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
Harvard Goes South (of the Border)
… Harvard Goes South (of the Border) Mark your calendars for the Harvard Alumni … alumni gathering in London in November 2003, and is part of the HAA's Global Series. For further information, visit …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Gated Menace of "Private Cities"
… Neighborhoods are the building blocks of a metropolitan area. But … and ornate to run-down and dilapidated. The ethnicity of residents often delineates a neighborhood's borders. …
The Source of Human Speed
… swifter than a typical man or woman plucked at random from the street? Isn't it absurd even to compare them? Actually, … Peter Weyand, and others published recently in the Journal of Applied Physiology. In the course of analyzing human runners of varying abilities at top …
Savant of Screens
… ’02, who writes about television and on-line media for the New York Times, got an e-mail from her boss, culture … her hip, funny pieces bristle with fresh ideas. In the fall of 2004, for example, she began her review of the hit … of her reviews the benefit of the doubt. “If I can’t rise to understand why something is interesting,” she says, …
Issue: September-October 2007