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Extracurriculars
… Seasonal http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8676 April 26-29: The twentieth annual Arts First Festival offers dozens of … Realm explores the amazing diversity of mollusks, which comprise almost a quarter of all known sea-dwelling species. …
Issue: March-April 2012
Admissions Agenda
… for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed suit against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) aiming, as its website puts it, to … could overturn the current, Court-sanctioned consideration of race in admissions. And Blum might be positively giddy …
Issue: July-August 2022
Latinos Nix Violence
… likely to be law-abiding than third-generation Americans of similar socioeconomic status, reports Robert Sampson, Ford professor of the social sciences. These new findings run counter to … lowered his or her likelihood of violence. Sampson was surprised to discover that a person’s immigrant status emerged …
Issue: September-October 2006
New from Lewis and Clark
… Two collections assistants at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology were making an inventory of objects in the Oceania storerooms last December when they …
Issue: March-April 2004
Cambridge 02138
… student in Harvard's fine arts department and now a professorof art history, I eagerly read Janet Tassel's " Reverence for the Object "(September-October, page 48) on the program and …
Issue: November-December 2002
Cuchi Cuchi
… Cuchi Cuchi’s shtick is entertaining, the décor a retro salute to “belle epoch” and early … , and click on “Photos” for a digital sampling of the corporeal treats in store. The main reward is the … delightful, and de-lovely, but a chorus of approval rises from around the table. (Okay, the duck à l’orange …
Issue: March-April 2007
What They Earned
… As a nonprofit organization, Harvard is required to submit Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service each year. The fiscal year 2018 … were released publicly today, and include the earnings of the top-paid employees of both organizations. Former …
Taking Her Shot
… A five-point play is virtually impossible—but that’s what the Harvard women’s basketball team accomplished last … ’15 set a screen to initiate a pick and roll, but instead of driving to the hoop, Tummala did what she does best: … took the performance in stride: “I’m never surprised when Shilpa does that,” she said. “I believe she just …
Issue: November-December 2015
Seeing Science
… “Visual Science: The Art of Research,” opening September 20, explores how … can “record fleeting observations, whether a painting of an animal glimpsed in the field, or an interaction …
Issue: September-October 2019
Studying Zika
… To understand the outbreak of a disease like Zika, and ultimately to fight … must work on multiple levels. There are questions of molecules and chemical processes: how does the virus …
Picking Up a Hobby
… William Blake saw “a World in a Grain of Sand.” Stan Munro saw the Taj Mahal in a toothpick—or, more precisely, thousands of toothpicks stuck together with Elmer’s Glue. He also …
Issue: November-December 2015
Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?
… Is a gas guzzler actually better for the environment than an electric vehicle? Sometimes. Ashley … and to find lithium, they need the high-altitude salt flats of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. There, beneath turquoise … internal combustion engine. The high emissions buy-in of an EV “isn’t a dealbreaker,” Nunes says, because “an …
Issue: September-October 2022
Chocolatier
… Can the "food of the gods" help us live longer, healthier lives? Like red wine and green tea, the seeds of Theobroma cacao, which are ground to make chocolate, are …
Issue: May-June 2004
Kathy Delaney-Smith’s Final Act
… In November , after her team thrashed Northern Illinois 70-53 in its home opener, Friends coach Kathy … “I’m not thinking about that,” the coach responded. “I kind of forget it’s my last year.” Though seemingly a deflection, … and contending with extraordinary challenges on and off the court. This has led to a seesaw campaign, but if the …
Robert L. Clinton IV, J.D. ’24, Graduate English Address: “On Being Good”
… got such wonderful friends. I’ve learned from kindhearted professors who have taught me so much more than just law. When I think about the nights out, the slices of Joe’s pizza at midnight, the kisses, the encounters with …