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Vogue Meets Veritas
… Though the early April night is freezing cold at 10 p.m., a line of 600 people, mostly students, waits more than 40 minutes … thousand more will watch online. Founded by undergraduates of Asian descent in 2006, Identities has evolved into a …
Issue: January-February 2013
On Mathematical Imagination
… The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, said Shakespeare, are … imaginary. The most monstrous thing about these fantasies, of course, is that they turn out to describe how our one and …
Issue: January-February 2004
Venkatesh Murthy
… in guiding human behavior—but for many animals, including the mice Venkatesh Murthy studies in his lab, the sense of smell often dominates. A dozen years ago, this prompted a question …
Issue: September-October 2020
Stair Trek
… Philip M. Williams '57 dropped by Primus's third-floor office to wish him a happy birthday (they have the same birthday) and to discuss his 21-page … ending at a spacious landing. Each of the pair has nine risers and eight treads, the final tread being the landing …
Issue: September-October 2003
A Baton with Sting
… into her career as a conductor, Sarah Hicks ’93 had “the first of two turning points.” She was conducting a Minnesota … point came with her second pops show, conducting the music of singer/pianist Ben Folds, who was amazed that Hicks was …
Issue: July-August 2011
New Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2012-2013 academic year will be Cherone Duggan ’14 and … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Duggan, of Carbury, County Kildare, Ireland (a small farming community about 30 miles west of Dublin), and Winthrop House, first came to Harvard as a …
Issue: September-October 2012
Musick Makers
… Eighty-odd musical instruments, most of them elderly, reside in a climate-controlled room in the … A cosmopolitan lot, they range from an Italian archlute of the sixteenth or seventeenth century, to a graduated set …
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Harvard's first curator of numismatic collections, overseeing a trove of 22,000 coins in the Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art and Numismatics …
Issue: September-October 2003
Take Me Out
… The Art of Baseball, opening April 17 at the Concord Museum and guest curated by historian and fan … Ph.D. ’68, celebrates not only the sport, but the love of the game. On display are eclectic memorabilia—a …
Issue: March-April 2015
E-mail Imbroglio
… classes met, this academic year began on a somber note. The College disclosed on August 30 that nearly half the … for impermissible collaboration or even outright copying of classmates’ answers on the take-home final exam the … Council member, spoke of the “unhelpful distance” that had arisen between faculty members and decision-making …
Issue: May-June 2013
A Gift for Openness
… When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Immunity Engineer
… tells starts with a slug. “This slug does a really good job of creating a mucus that allows it to stick really tightly, … so predators can’t just peel it off and eat it,” he says. The mucus, a marvelous material, turns out to consist of a … emphasized the University’s ambition for a new enterprise focused on bioengineering, one reason for Mooney’s …
Issue: January-February 2025
“Our John Harvard”
… During its 150th-anniversary celebration in December, the Harvard Club of New York unveiled Everett Raymond Kinstler’s portrait of John P. (Jack) Reardon Jr. ’60. In accompanying remarks, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Peter Gomes, Remembered
… The late Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial …
Harvard 34, Columbia 14
… Rock on : Scoring early and often, Harvard defeated an injury-depleted Columbia team, 34-14, at the Lions' Kraft Field on Saturday. The Crimson now has an … field goal increased the margin to 34-0 at the start of the final quarter. Columbia--described by Harvard coach …