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Sting and Sarah Hicks in Switzerland
… Sting, now on his "Symphonicity" tour, played the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 11, doing orchestral arrangements of some of his hits. A New York Times account of the performance …
Fishing for Answers
… Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school … an alternative to evolution in ninth-grade science classes. The judge in the case ultimately ruled in the parents’ … department to prepare for more roadways. To their surprise, Shubin relates in Your Inner Fish, Daeschler one day …
Issue: May-June 2008
Paper Persists
… University who retired as SUNY Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in 2004, wrote recently about his newly … and Memorial Column Monuments, from Ancient Times to the 21st Century . “I am not able to send you a copy” for … intellectually and during turning points such as the crises of April 1969. He also helped the United States and …
Issue: May-June 2019
We Remember WWI
… To honor the nation’s veterans, Harvard Magazine is republishing Adam Goodheart’s remarkable collection of stories about the Great War, “We Remember World War I,” which appeared in the November-December issue of 1993, together with contributing editor Jim Harrison’s …
Harvard chief investment officer resigns
… Harvard Magazine News Update For further details, read " The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval " and " An Unexpected Risk Factor ," published in advance of our November-December 2007 issue. Mohamed El-Erian, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company since February 2006, …
Fashion Forward
… Drawings by Lewis Albert The spotlights are on and the music is pounding. I am sitting close to the edge of a stage in the darkened Bright Hockey Center, gaping as … attracted more than 100 members, including, to their surprise, quite a few men. Both explicitly preprofessional and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Weezer Releases New EP, "SZNZ: Spring"
… Whether you love or hate Weezer’s new EP, SZNZ: Spring , might come down to whether drinking three cups of coffee and then taking some Benadryl sounds like a ball or a …
This Spring, Next Fall
… In academic terms, the pandemic maintained its sway over campus during the … in the wintry early weeks. But after the disappointing news of another virtual graduation, in lieu of a full … upbeat news about a more normal 2021-2022. To no one’s surprise, the Ivy League canceled spring competition, while …
Issue: May-June 2021
Umm Kulthum Ibrahim
… Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you …
Caring for Children in Chennai
… ’09 and Allie (Rosene-Mirvis) Schachter ’09 spent part of a year traveling abroad—in Ghana, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Australia. They also spent six months living in Chennai, India, where … Allie began volunteering with the Madras Christian Council of Social Service (MCCSS), a nongovernmental organization …
Issue: January-February 2014
Supreme Court Bans Race-Conscious Admissions
… admissions at both public and private institutions of higher education, ruling that the practice violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Harvard, which previously signaled …
Learning from Toys
… Tamara Mattison, began to collect and make dolls, doll clothes, and accessories. By 2012, the serious hobby had … and “our husbands were, like, you got to get this stuff out of here,” Walker says. So they rented a storefront space in … and transformed it into the National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture. The nonprofit now features about …
Issue: May-June 2018
Walter E. Fernald
… In the spring of 1920, the inaugural dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Henry Holmes, … had escaped his own institution and found, to his great surprise, that most were leading successful lives. Fernald …
Issue: March-April 2025
At Home with Harvard: Pride Month
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories the climate crisis, … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds Steps Down
… College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds is stepping down at the end of the academic year. According to the news release, posted … became College dean on June 1, 2008—something of a surprise appointment, given her prior service principally in …