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Ballots, Please
… This spring, Harvard degree holders can vote for new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni …
Issue: May-June 2022
Stepwise
… “It’s so brutal ,” Elizabeth Claire Walker ’11 says of ballet, the art form she loves. The dancer isn’t just talking about … rehearsals, the aches and pains, and the wrenching pursuit of impossible physical ideals. She’s talking about the …
Issue: July-August 2016
Radcliffe Recruits
… A pair of senior faculty appointments unveiled shortly before the beginning of the academic year underscores the intellectual ambitions …
Issue: November-December 2001
Their “Last Shot”
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Hanging from the rafters of Lavietes Pavilion are 11 banners that read “WOMEN,” each a permanent memento of an Ivy League Championship that head coach Kathy …
Yesterday's News
… 1935 The Summer School hosts multiple discussions of national … as the earlier struggles in this country for the principle of liberty.” They encourage “bring[ing] into schools and …
Issue: July-August 2020
For Clean Water, An Approach That Works
… At a spring just outside Busia, Kenya—a town of 30,000 in the western part of the country, on the Ugandan border—a steady stream of …
Kennedy School’s Campus Makeover
… The Harvard Kennedy School ’s (HKS) light and airy new … put it, “When we came to your campus, we found a group of buildings that had become outdated — I’m being charitable—and that had been built in a series of campaigns, leaving the school with a disjointed …
July-August 2024
… The July-August 2024 issue of Harvard Magazine. … …
Is There Better Than Better?
… Professor of psychology Ellen Langer once received an invitation to … religious,” she agreed to offer a reflection at the service, choosing a topic at the intersection of religion and psychology: forgiveness. As …
Issue: May-June 2021
"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
A NOOK for My Book?
… One of my older relatives has an Amazon Kindle. He also has an iPad. When I asked him why on earth he would need two of these gadgets—one, an e-book reader; the other a …
Harvard Medalists
… THE HARVARD Alumni Association (HAA) awarded five Harvard … J.D. ’76, M.P.P. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, the twenty-ninth president of the University, concluded the academic year with his … foresight and resilience, deftly harnessing the strengths of Harvard’s extraordinary people in service to the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Connecting with China
… China disorients the visitor. The scale and bustle of its cities—propelled by … Secret close the curtains. Perhaps it should not surprise that such contrasts, arising within a generation of the …
Issue: May-June 2008
33.3 RPM
… Saturday , 1 A.M. I arrive at the Record Hospital “orgy” with some trepidation—it’s my first one. For the last four years, I have known of the shows put on by WHRB’s rock department and its … obscure, the difficult to listen to. Freshman year, some of my classmates talked nervously about the comp process, …
AI in the Academy
… computer code, generate audio, and create images, within the past year has become capable of producing work indistinguishable from that of humans. Generative AI, given the right prompts, can …
Issue: November-December 2023