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Comedy, Harvard, and Hollywood
… Rick Meyerowitz, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (reviewed in the November-December 2010 issue), explores the history and legacy of the National Lampoon , founded in 1970 by alumni of the Harvard Lampoon. Previous Harvard Magazine articles …
Issue: November-December 2010
Tangible Learning in a Virtual World
… Years ago Gerald Lesser, now Bigelow professor of education and developmental psychology emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), was a key player in …
Graduate Students Vote to Unionize
… 1,931-1,523 to form a labor union, per a count taken at the regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Boston today. The outcome means that thousands of Harvard graduate and undergraduate students engaged in … Workers (HGSU-UAW), unless Harvard challenges the results of the election. The election took place April 18 and 19 at …
A New Day for Dunster
… Smelling of fresh paint , and with the tags still dangling off the Herman Miller furniture, … has the capacity for air conditioning, should the need arise. The freshened-up Dunster also has some idiosyncratic …
Institutional, International
… Undergraduates are traveling more these days because, well, they are traveling more. It’s more … families, says Nancy Saunders, who as associate director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) counsels … years, the number of undergraduates studying abroad has risen more than 600 percent, with the vast majority of the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Harvard 2007 Commencement Address
… President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members … the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems. When an …
Pop Up Repair Impresaria
… In theater, “there’s never any funding, so you value things,” … physical world and you’re used to caring about the history of objects and the value of objects.” Goldmark and her husband, Michael Banta—she an …
Issue: November-December 2013
A Just World at Peace
… Before she read a poem written in celebration of Swartz Hall—the just-renovated home of Harvard Divinity School—Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor …
Issue: January-February 2022
Matt Damon, Arts Medalist
… The Office for the Arts at Harvard has announced that the Harvard Arts … receive his medal on April 25 in Sanders Theatre, kicking off this spring’s Arts First festival, scheduled for April …
News Briefs
… November forced it to turn to all-remote learning to finish the fall semester; the Medical School is bringing first-year … international students kept away from Cambridge because of U.S. regulations on enrollment in all-online instruction. … and the United States. Inevitably, renaming questions have arisen at Harvard, too. Witness the Law School’s decision to …
Issue: January-February 2021
Food, Glorious Food
… , cowritten by Juliette Rogers ’94, is really a book of stories about people who produce everything from barley … flatbread, French-Canadian meat pies, and canned sardines. The book, Rogers says, was written to help people connect … walnuts, and, what? Sweet clover? Maybe that’s no surprise. The cheese is made from the raw milk of sheep that …
Issue: January-February 2006
Tweeter Titters
… years old,” Megan Amram ’10 claims. Perhaps she was saving them up all those early years. Today she posts quite a few … and more than 135,000 followers read them daily. They are often dark witticisms, the products of an entertainingly warped mind—such as, “Luckily my …
Issue: March-April 2012
A Quantum Science Initiative
… Quantum science—the physics and engineering of the world at sub-microscopic … that will combine basic and applied research into the realm of the very small, as well as foster collaborations with …
Cambridge 02138
… THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw … the more the better. He was addressing an audience of mostly sedentary folks and minimal exercisers, but as a … page 30), I note that in the 1970s after the gasoline crises, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory …
Issue: May-June 2004
“Stay in Your Cocoon!”
… It was inevitable that the Harvard College “Celebration of the Class of 2020” would be unlike any other Class Day in Harvard’s …