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Learning from Indian Country
… was running himself ragged directing a two-person nonprofit providing technical assistance to tribal housing … MASS Design’s Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, an office of 18 in Santa Fe led by Kunkel and focused on … and healing in Indian Country. Kunkel, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne, had just emerged with his graduate …
Issue: May-June 2023
Copyright Issue
… In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), Pub. L. … Inc. has designated an agent to receive notification of alleged copyright infringement occurring in the … specified below. Please note, this agent is for reporting of copyright infringement and is not the correct person to …
Orchestrating Opera’s Emotions
… It was Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine —fittingly, “the human voice”—that convinced conductor Sara Jobin ’92 to … at Opera San Jose, she was overcome by how the emotions—of depression, and lost love—were conveyed by the timbre of the soprano’s voice alone. “For me, it was like the voice …
Issue: March-April 2015
Interim Successor Named for Ailing FAS Dean
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) interim dean Jeremy R. … succeeded on an acting basis by David R. Pilbeam, Ford professor of human evolution. Pilbeam served on the faculty’s Task Force on General Education, whose …
Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment
… UPDATE: May 10, 12:15 P.M. This morning , Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) announced on Instagram that … has started sending out suspension notices” to students in the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard. Involuntary … with student protest liaisons. According to HOOP, Garber offered not to suspend students if they ended the …
Gravity's Riddle
… Ever since the fabled apple fell before Isaac Newton, gravity has posed … and weak forces that bind atomic nuclei together, it is one of the four fundamental forces of physics. Gravity behaves … the most mysterious." In physics, deep problems often arise from simple questions, like this one: Why is gravity so …
Issue: May-June 2003
Michael Pollan’s Crooked Writing Path
… Whether he is writing a book on big farming and the way … as a writer has been anything but traditional. “The path of someone’s career only appears in retrospect. I really didn’t know where I was going. The path of a writer isn’t like the path of a doctor or a lawyer—it’s …
Women's Center
… At the end of a year that has seen various plans for the College (including the curricular review) mark time or … women’s center. Plans for a renovated space in the basement of Canaday Hall have already been drawn up, and a director …
Issue: May-June 2006
Endangered Species Economics
… $125 million on tickets and travel to Stellwagen in 2008. They spent about $2.1 billion to see cetaceans around the … have done for local communities. Manatees attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to Florida each year, where they spend more than …
Issue: May-June 2011
It’s Baby Turkey Season in Cambridge
… Turkeys are usually associated with Thanksgiving season, but the best time to view them might be in late spring, when, … after a month-long brooding period, baby turkeys hop out of their eggs and begin to forage alongside their protective … And why would anyone want to? she asked. “When nature surprises you with something like a wild turkey in Harvard Yard, …
Books and Budgets
… The future may be digital, but the book is far from dead, … University Library director and Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton. More books are published now than at any other time in history, and the number of new works published each year is growing fast. So, too, …
Issue: May-June 2010
Harvard@Home: Four New Programs
… Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, … has introduced several new programs. They are: "The Process of Curricular Review." Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross describes the College's first comprehensive review of the undergraduate curriculum in nearly three decades, …
Issue: March-April 2004
One Small Step for Music
… In the summer of 1977, NASA rocketed two spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit. Their mission: explore the unexplored. NASA had already been …
Issue: July-August 2020
Kick Kennedy and Evelyn Waugh
… is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard. She is also the granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy '12 and the editor of Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy …
Ski Team, Waxing
… In the north country of New Hampshire, skiers from Dartmouth, the current NCAA champions, reign supreme, while the Green Mountains are home to the University of Vermont ski team, another perennial powerhouse. On the …
Issue: January-February 2008