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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
“To Heal and to Help”
… Perhaps more than any other group of graduates on Thursday, the new doctors … degrees from Harvard Medical School (HMS) stand at the edge of a precipice. They will enter their profession in the …
Ipso Facto!
… about 15 feet above ground. Insinuate yourself into the Leverett courtyard, and you will discover that it is a bell of rather modest size, about a foot across at bottom. It has … to the undergraduates in the House. Across the front of the mount, “Pennoyer” is carved into the wood in script. …
Issue: November-December 2012
Dr. Dean
… Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., becomes dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) on September 1; President … Drew Faust announced his appointment on July 11. Flier, the Reisman professor of medicine, is an expert on the … both clinical training and large applied research enterprises. Contemporary research raises the stakes still …
Issue: September-October 2007
Democracy Endangered
… The population of the United States, like that of most established …
Issue: January-February 2024
Recovered Memory
… Campus turmoil tumbled into Robinson Hall during the 1969 strike, when students turned the building into a factory for the production of T-shirts bearing the memorable clenched-red-fist logo. … never noticed the building tucked into a far corner of Harvard Yard, nor realized that it housed the Graduate …
Issue: September-October 2002
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
Gathering Strings
… When she was six years old, a harp was the most beautiful thing Elisabeth Remy Johnson had ever … Remy Johnson ’95, now the longtime principal harpist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, began a determined march … strings, which gave way to bigger and more complex versions of the instrument—a troubadour, a pedal harp—as her training …
Issue: January-February 2025
Bridge to Mesopotamia
… In a glass case stand a dozen carved statues of gypsum alabaster — male figurines with their hands folded at their chests and their … Mesopotamians as proxy worshippers, to stand in the temples of gods and pray in their owners’ absence. “The …
Issue: November-December 2005
A Particulate Problem
… Twenty-five years ago, a team of eight University researchers famously estimated the critical impact of air pollution on mortality rates across six American …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard in Motion
… A new fitness initiative, Harvard on the Move, kicked off on January 26 with a panel discussion on the benefits of walking and running, moderated by President Drew Faust in …
Reopening. . .Carefully
… Setting the stage. During the 17 pandemic months, Harvard’s grounds … features are splendidly beautified with a forest of witch hazels, dwarf fothergillas, clethras, sumacs and more, underplanted with a carpet of sky-blue-blooming plumbago against a backdrop of cheery …
Issue: November-December 2021
Critique and Joy
… It was not until 1855 —the same year an unknown poet named Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass —that a once-famous Black poet, Phillis Wheatley, … dipping in frequently for refreshment, edification, and surprise. Although anthologies sometimes get a bad rap among …
Issue: September-October 2021
Centennial Medalists
… biology Susan Lindquist has said that biology is in the midst of the “greatest intellectual revolution”; and she ought to know, since she has been one of the leaders of that revolution. Through her …
Crimson in Triumph Flashing
… In 1858 the Harvard crew "were in the habit of rowing in their … heads. "A color for each college had not then been thought of," Eliot later explained. He and Crowninshield considered …