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Gathering Strings
… When she was six years old, a harp was the most beautiful thing Elisabeth Remy Johnson had ever … Remy Johnson ’95, now the longtime principal harpist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, began a determined march … strings, which gave way to bigger and more complex versions of the instrument—a troubadour, a pedal harp—as her training …
Issue: January-February 2025
"A Liar's Biography"
… prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.” So writes Jonathan Lopez ’91 in “A Liar’s Biography,” the introduction to his new work, The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren (Harcourt, $26). More from …
Issue: September-October 2008
Alec Baldwin: Legal Envy
… The celebrated actor Alec Baldwin, winner of two Emmy Awards … of films, television shows, and theatrical productions, surprised many in the audience with his Class Day speech at …
Academic Workers Rally for Union Recognition
… A week after publicly announcing their intention to form a union, non-tenure-track faculty … campus. More than 100 people turned out, and amid chants of “When we fight, we win!” and “Harvard works because we … since 2010, the number of non-ladder faculty members has risen by 44 percent. “Folks are spending longer in these …
Addition by Subtraction
… Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the … have been somewhat eclipsed by the larger research enterprise." … Harvard undergraduates would be much freer …
Issue: July-August 2004
An Embodied Voice
… A Latin American immigrant living in Los Angeles listens to the radio on her way home. She hears a familiar … sugary but still firm voice—a teacher instructing a group of young children—explaining the concept of friction. The mother doesn’t know it, but actor Adriana …
Issue: September-October 2020
Cambridge 02138
… SPECTRUM OF AUTISM OPINIONS As the parent of a child with autism and a writer on the subject for About.com, I enjoyed reading “ A Spectrum of …
Issue: March-April 2008
Harvard Hoops Star Turns Pro
… a six-foot, three-inch, 200-pound guard, has signed with the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association, according to a … record last season. An extraordinarily versatile player, profiled in Harvard Magazine in 2009, Lin ranked among the Ivy …
Challenges to Harvard’s President: An Update
… The following are developments since the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming resignation of Dean William C. Kirby. At …
Welfare’s Payback
… that pays future dividends, refuting old assumptions about the efficiency of welfare spending. Professor of economics Nathaniel Hendren is one of the young …
Issue: November-December 2020
Yesterday’s News
… 1918 Between July 1 and August 12, the Harvard Reserve Officers’ Training Corps prepares almost … for military service. 1938 At the fifth annual joint outing of the Harvard and Yale Clubs of New York City, at the …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Dominant Dean
… afternoon conversation in Wadsworth House, where he had an office between his two terms of service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Jeremy R. Knowles …
Issue: July-August 2008
Search Begun for New Education Dean
… President Drew Faust has established the advisory committee for the search to identify the successor to Kathleen McCartney, departing dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). … 1. According to Faust’s announcement , the committee comprises nine HGSE senior faculty members (Monica Higgins, …
Cousins in the Ancient World
… Using a new technique developed at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute, scientists can identify close relatives among people who lived thousands of years ago. A study published today demonstrates how the … and third cousins using ancient DNA can reveal evidence of extraordinary instances of individual migration. …
Mental Health Services Examined
… care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a provost-appointed committee has issued a … with recommendations for University-wide improvements. "The years of late adolescence and early adulthood mark not only the …