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Holocaust Remembrance Exhibit Comes to Harvard
… students, Harvard administrators, and community members gathered in front of Widener Library to open “ Hate Ends Now ,” a nationally touring exhibit that displays a replica of the cattle cars used to transport Jews and others to …
Harvard May Avoid FY 2021 Operating Loss Despite Pandemic
… University reductions in expenses are likely to offset lost revenues and the increased costs imposed by the pandemic, suggesting that … , Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, said he was hopeful that the professional schools …
Learning About Love
… When I heard that Father Paul O’Brien ’86 was coming to speak at Harvard, I knew I had to meet him. Last month, I read the story of his remarkable ministry in Lawrence, Massachusetts , and was fascinated. Since becoming pastor of St. Patrick’s parish a decade ago, he’s tackled hunger, …
Salute Flag and Shack!
… 14. John Fitzhugh Millar ’66 commissioned this modern copy of what he believes is the earliest known version of the American flag to include stars. He found the original …
Issue: May-June 2012
Faculty Senate Debate Continued
… During an unusual special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on May 14, members continued the …
Commemorating 375 Years, in a Flash
… to an administrator in a white dress shirt and tie, the Harvard 375th anniversary “flash mob” of dancers got down to James Brown’s “Papa’s Got a Brand New … this Friday evening. The “Flash Mob” is sure to be one of the highlights of an evening filled with performances, …
Back on Top
… As so often happens, The Game came down to the end. This time for Harvard it was … receiver Cooper Barkate worked his way free at the back of the end zone, Craig stopped and fired in his direction. …
Issue: January-February 2024
One Harvard
… As the nation’s teachers and students return to classrooms this fall, a small, well-prepared group of education leaders will be ready to shape their … and learned how to build and sustain a successful enterprise with Clayton Christensen, Chet Huber, Derek van Bever, …
Issue: September-October 2013
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 …
Dropping Out: In Their Own Words
… Harvard Magazine recently caught up with three members of the class of 1969 who never graduated. Joanne Ricca, Bernard Levine, …
Issue: July-August 2010
Can Infrastructure Remedy Social Ills?
… are divided by politics and algorithms, public spaces have the potential to bring people together. Libraries and town … race, class, and cultural chasms, says Graduate School of Design (GSD) lecturer and architect Malkit Shoshan. The … and Collective Futures,” to expand their conception of public spaces. A road can be more than just a surface …
Issue: July-August 2022
Getting His Reps in
… Floyd-Pruitt’s first year in art school, he arrived at the sculpture lab one weekend to find it locked. This was a … modular wall hanging assembled from found objects made of wood. On Monday, when the lab opened again, Floyd-Pruitt … early to apply a few finishing touches and apply a coat of orange paint. The next day, he presented it to his …
Issue: September-October 2023
ART Reimagines Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”
… roller-skating forest gods and dancing burlesque divas. But off-Broadway audiences whooped and danced in the aisles— The Donkey Show was a hit. Paulus looks to be just as daring with her newest production, an adaptation of Porgy and Bess. The Boston Globe reports that the …
A Turning Point for WHRB
… Harvard’s student radio station WHRB, an innovative voice in the Boston FM market for decades, is facing a difficult turning point. David Elliott ’64, the chairman of its board of trustees since 1996 and an éminence grise at WHRB for half a century, relinquished his …
Eric Nelson
… “There are people for whom the past is very vivid,” says professor of government Eric Nelson ’99. He is one of them. Stirred by …
Issue: January-February 2012