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Janiva Ellis at the Carpenter Center
… Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (January 31-April 6). The exhibition highlights 12 paintings that have lain … primarily for technicolor canvases depicting experiences of black and biracial people, mostly women, and … years later she was included in the Whitney Biennial. Her rise coincided with a “rapacious market for work by black …
Issue: January-February 2025
An Interpretive Artist of Urban Space
… Jesse Shapins helped create Zeega, a software program conceived to create database documentaries, but he is not a programmer. The lecturer in architecture might better be called an … underlying database—a little ocean of expression that can rise up and coalesce into different forms. “Designing a …
Issue: May-June 2012
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
… The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips … for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of two nearly identical reading rooms built within the … in general, the library speeded up planned installation of machines that read identification cards at the entrances to …
Issue: January-February 2002
Cambridge 02138
… Dementia Caregiving About Lydialyle Gibson’s “ Caring for the Caregivers ” (January-February, page 14): What a wonderful piece! I am one of those who did 10 years of caregiving with a lovely lady … in the article of what MGH plans to do differently to rise to the escalating crisis of caregiving. Understanding, …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Chemical Biologists
… Although Stuart L. Schreiber's office number is 223 Conant, one of several buildings in the chemistry complex, only part of his suite is actually … and biology to make way for an interdisciplinary enterprise called chemical biology. One of Schreiber's many …
Issue: March-April 2005
Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Debt Deal
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith used his annual report to colleagues for the 2016-2017 academic year, being released today, to … , the fiscal 2019 distribution per unit of endowment would rise a nominal amount, perhaps 1 percent, reflecting the …
An Afternoon of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
… A Friends of Harvard Magazine event was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2005 at the Arnold Arboretum. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, former director of the collections and instructor at the Graduate School of …
Climate Change’s Crippling Costs
… Economists, including the late research professor of economics Martin Weitzman and … and a large body of subsequent work, each 1-degree Celsius rise in world temperature would reduce world gross domestic …
Issue: September-October 2024
Off the Shelf
… Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. … guide (the first example is the notorious simultaneous rise of human births and the stork population in late …
Issue: July-August 2015
A Hundred Years of Music
… When the Harvard University Band parades through Harvard Square … the band’s hundredth anniversary, the usual contingent of 60 student musicians will likely swell to more than six … Today the University Band is an extensive musical enterprise consisting of a football band, a concert band, a wind …
An Expansive Vision for the Future of Teaching and Learning
… The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force … from the pandemic pivot to remote instruction in the spring of 2020 and through the following academic year, released … activities. As the task force noted, many of the new enterprises and instructional channels focusing on online learning …
Beyond the Genome
… During the past few decades , most scientific research into the causes of autism has been focused on the structural wiring of the … in recent years, as the number of cases has continued to rise (while the genetic pathways have remained elusive), …
Issue: January-February 2008
Talking About Tipping Points
… While climate change is frequently discussed as a problem of gradual warming, numerous features in the global climate system are thought to be at risk of … renewable energy production, carbon emissions continue to rise. “When you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is …
Seeking Climate Solutions
… The University has entered a new phase of engagement with … in greenhouse gas emissions, and policies to help enterprises and affected communities transition to new forms of …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvey Mansfield: The Bradley Prize and a Critique of Harvard
… Kenan professor of government Harvey Mansfield , a scholar of … who has long expressed his criticisms of what he sees as the prevailing culture and beliefs of Harvard and other … of free representative government and private enterprise that has enabled the American nation and, in a larger …