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The Shape of Sound
… During her junior year of college, Jessica Shand ’22 discovered topology—a branch of mathematics that studies how far shapes can stretch and morph …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Stuff of World War II
… During a field trip to The International Museum of World War II in Natick, … New-York Historical Society, illustrates the incremental rise of prejudicial hatred. Rare documents are highlighted, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Labor, Interrupted
… In May 2003 came the joyous birth of Prairie Cummings Resch, first child of … “overwhelmed by emotions”—“joy, awe, anxiety, relief, surprise.” She gave thanks for her healthy baby, and for modern …
Issue: November-December 2012
Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
… On September 22, about 20 teams will gather to propel their human-powered machines—without their feet ever touching the ground—through … race co-producer and artist Michael Roundy, a studio art professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell—and the …
Issue: September-October 2018
The State of the Pandemic
… For all the havoc and death caused by the coronavirus during the … significant issues. How will humanity cope with the rest of this pandemic—and prepare to respond better to the … risk of severe illness is highest among the eldest. Risk rises steadily with age, doubling every five to six years, …
Issue: September-October 2021
AI: The Course
… With the launch of its first overview course on artificial … produced by humans. From the first meeting of Gen Ed 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI,” students …
Issue: May-June 2024
Playing Offense
… president again, launched a sweeping attack on any hint of diversity and equity within federal reach. Two months later, as this is written, it’s clear that the administration is pursuing a multifront assault on … not existential, for places like Columbia. (American Enterprise Institute polemicist Max Eden in December called …
Issue: May-June 2025
Queen of the Hill
… The fact that a softball diamond is so much smaller than a … opponents’ batting average (.181). To no one’s great surprise, she was the unanimous choice for Ivy League Pitcher of … about Brown’s pitches. One of her lethal weapons is the rise ball, which doesn’t exist in hardball. Thrown fast, …
Issue: May-June 2012
"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"
… Although—let us be right out front —there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has … the egg; Egg, yolk—your whole life. But the truth of your arrival, and what now follows, Is the truth of … homeless geese, I expect you to struggle into your sky, Rise, glide, wheel and dive, Sport with the wind and spin …
Issue: July-August 2002
Flocking Together
… Lila’s Mountain Farm sits in a scenic corner of western Massachusetts, on rolling pastures with sweeping views of the Berkshires. In early February, during lambing season, …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Return of History
… On the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, … Hetmanate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the rise of the modern Ukrainian national project in the 1840s, …
Issue: September-October 2023
Arts and Engineering
… substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty … Harvard Magazine spoke in January with Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean Kelly, dean of arts and … Kelly’s home department—the number of concentrators has risen dramatically. “When I arrived in 2006,” he says, “we …
Issue: March-April 2025
Ben Franklin’s Project
… Joyce E. Chaplin, Phillips professor of early American history, is a multitool scholar, working across fields including the history of science, climate, colonialism, and … attempt to address eighteenth-century energy and climate crises. The former concerned the looming exhaustion of native …
Issue: May-June 2025
Rationality and Robots
… The Achilles heel of neoclassical economic theory has always … and save for retirement, that they won’t pay more for a cup of coffee—or a car, house, or share of stock—than it’s … examples, but computer scientists have also been developing machines to conduct automated negotiations, to reason about …
Issue: January-February 2016
Community Voices Rise in Harvard Square's Redesign
… “There have been many watershed moments in the history of … say in the future of the public space. … Community Voices Rise in Harvard Square’s Redesign … 1508 … Community Voices …