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Silver, Screens
… An analog photograph isn’t just taken—composed, framed, and then snipped out of reality. A photograph is also made. Ansel Adams once likened the darkroom alchemy of developing and printing a negative to the performance of …
A Teach-in on Teaching
… The first in a series of “Conversations@FAS” convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith drew a standing-room-only crowd on February 11 to a lecture theater in Maxwell-Dworkin, where professors, lecturers, …
Gender Initiatives Gain
… The campus discussion about faculty diversity—particularly the academic development and careers of women—that was launched last spring took … and diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds told the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on September 27 that she had hired an …
Issue: November-December 2005
News Briefs
… ’07 announced in December a $500-million gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. The … growth, in the commercially oriented Enterprise Research Campus and elsewhere (in contrast to Harvard’s …
Issue: March-April 2022
Fixtures and Followers
… The lists below include many of the oldest and newest Harvard Square businesses, according … (1834) Cambridge Center for Adult Education (1876; a nonprofit, rather than a business) Harvard Coop (1882) Leavitt & …
Issue: September-October 2011
“Beyond Words”: Beauty and History Converge at Houghton
… In 2000, Jeffrey Hamburger, Francke professor of German art and culture, and William Stoneman, curator of … began unearthing lesser-known medieval manuscripts across the Boston area. This week, their efforts culminate with the …
On Campus, Concisely
… in November after black tape was pasted over portraits of its African-American professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting the University into the national spotlight amid growing …
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Issue: January-February 2016
A Leading en Plein Air Painter
… expecting thunderstorms in Rocky Mountain National Park. The young artist had risen early and trekked five miles with a 50-pound pack in hopes of capturing the morning light dancing on the mist from …
Issue: July-August 2024
Pliable Paradigms
… If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people's minds, it was Charles … 1830s, Darwin spent the next 20 years developing his theory of evolution. He was slow to publish his ideas. Because they …
Issue: March-April 2004
Linking Brain to Behavior
… This web extra supplements " Untangling the Brain ," an article in the May-June 2009 issue of Harvard Magazine . … environment as it searches for food. The simple behavior of the larva as it responds to stimuli can be recorded, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Tear Down
… Ten years after the Center for Government and International Studies was … first envisioned by a faculty committee, the future site of the complex is finally being readied for construction. The demolition of Coolidge Hall, on the north side of Cambridge Street, …
Issue: January-February 2003
Harvard A to Z
… (Excerpted from Harvard A to Z , by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this … Press. Copyright©2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved.) When Raktaprachit Aab '13, A.M. '14, of Bangkok, enrolled in the College in 1909, the journey …
Issue: May-June 2004
"Pure Brit" Finds Second Home at Harvard
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association, James V. Baker '68, M.B.A. … bus north. His host family, "the William H. Vanderbilts of Brookline, Massachusetts," met him at the Boston depot. …
Issue: September-October 2003
Vulnerable Sculpture
… Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released … mobiles do. Sarah Sze’s vulnerable works take the mirroring of life even further. Unpredictably, sporadically, they may …
Issue: September-October 2006
“An experiment in faith”
… The second president of Radcliffe, Le Baron Briggs, … described Radcliffe as “an experiment in faith.”… From the very beginning of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz’s inspiration, to the vision of …
Issue: July-August 2007