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Peabody Museum Removes Native American Funerary Objects
… The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has begun … week from the museum said that its staff was in the process of removing “all funerary belongings and likely funerary … for “collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency.” And in a …
Harvard Art Museums Now Admission-Free
… this morning that all visitors will be admitted free of admission charges, effective immediately. Until this change, adults were charged $20 for access to the collections, and those over 65 years, $18. To be sure, … to the Princeton University Art Museum.) It comes as no surprise that Bacow would demonstrate his support for the arts …
SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has approved more than … Veterans” ( view a complete list ). Harvard Magazine offers a list of scheduled SIG Commencement and reunion … and get to know other conference alumni, a network that comprises over 700 women whose interests, talents, and …
Your Take: Dining—In Or Out?
… In " Restaurants Rampant ," from the July-August 2011 issue, Craig Lambert explores two … is no longer just a meal; it's an experience , in the hands of chefs like Ferran Adrià . But on the other side is a backlash in favor of eating—and cooking —at home; this movement's leaders …
Issue: July-August 2011
Harvard Interim Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
… Interim president Alan M. Garber today announced the preliminary recommendations from the task forces on … speak with kindness”—traits he called “a powerful example of how I hope we can proceed together.” He also cited “their … among others: •Safety and security: “a deep-seated sense of fear among students, staff, and faculty,” characterized …
Printing in Free Space
… what looks like a sharp glowing pen squeezes out a coil of silver, starting from a base and curling upward into the air. It’s actually a nozzle attached to a 3-D printer, and the coil of silver, made of an ink composed of nanoparticles, is …
Issue: September-October 2016
At Home with Harvard: Health and Fitness
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, racial justice, and …
Graduating, Briskly
… The late , cool spring was not the exact type of the long, … to the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises under a shower of elm seeds from the Old Yard canopy, kept comfortable in …
Issue: July-August 2014
An Invincible Spirit
… 1916 , more than 1,100 Harvard students, many motivated by the possibility of the United States’ entrance into the Great War, joined what would become one of the country’s first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps …
Issue: July-August 2016
Football 2021: Harvard 49, Columbia 21
… losses, to Princeton and Dartmouth respectively, the Harvard football team ventured to Manhattan on Saturday … got a needed restorative, playing its best all-around game of the season, building a 42-0 lead, and trampling the Lions … who all are 4-1 in the league. (More about this at the end of the story.) The triumph also ensured a winning season for …
Sexual Harassment Survivors Condemn Harvard's Investigation Process
… , four women who have accused former Harvard government professor Jorge Domínguez of sexual misconduct spoke out about their experiences and criticized Harvard’s response to …
Muscles and Medicine
… created a mighty mouse, a rodent endowed with a rare type of muscle that combines unusual power and speed, like that of a sprinter, with the endurance of a marathoner. “Damn, they’re good …
Issue: July-August 2007
Axim Online Education Venture Debuts
… months after co-founders Harvard and MIT agreed to sell their edX online-learning venture to 2U , a for-profit course manager, the successor nonprofit organization … a venture philanthropy firm that funds startup social enterprises (including those listed on whose boards she served). …
Giang Nguyen
… had just taken up his new position as executive director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) in November 2019 when the pandemic broke out. With a background in public health … he directed the student health service at the University of Pennsylvania, where he expanded the M.D./M.P.H. program …
Issue: November-December 2022
Unveiled
… indulged his passion hugely. Yet, from what one may know of him, he seems in certain aspects of his life a pathetic figure. When Winthrop died in 1943, he left his art …
Issue: March-April 2003