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For the Love of Horses
… life and sports have long shaped Boston’s North Shore. In the late nineteenth century, that primarily agricultural … Merrimack River, evolved into “the premiere summer colony of affluent Bostonians, many of whom were avid equestrians,” according to a new exhibit …
Issue: September-October 2019
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
Map of the Milky Way
… maps are abstractions that show a city’s transit links and the connections among stations. To present information as … Medical School, has applied that concept to the part of the universe we call home by creating a subway map of the Milky Way. The map is an attempt to make our galaxy …
Issue: July-August 2010
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 …
Jodie Foster Honored at Radcliffe Day
… , Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster received the 2025 Radcliffe Medal, reunited with an old college … “What I hope for people now is that they take the gloves off, and Harvard has shown that recently, and right on,” Foster said, acknowledging that the politics of the last decade have left many people feeling “worn out …
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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 …