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The Fogg Pulls Back the Curtain
… In early September , several reporters were invited to tour the new Harvard Art Museums building that has risen at 32 Quincy Street. The façade of the old Fogg museum still stands facing Sever Quadrangle. …
The Art of the Dodge
… During this year’s presidential campaign, the candidates will face many questions they do not want to … behavioral scientist, social psychologist, and assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, sheds light …
Issue: March-April 2012
The Loneliness Pandemic
… “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent … homeless shelters. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during … Human Flourishing Program, found some information that surprised him. An unrelated collaboration with the American …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Power of Unreason
… Deep in the second half of Sanctuary Road , an oratorio by composer … based on stories from the Underground Railroad, the heart of the whole piece seems to crack wide open. In an aria …
Issue: July-August 2020
Pallas Chou ’23, Senior English Address
… ’23 Senior English Address I love enzymes. Tiny molecular machines, too small to be seen by the naked eye, they’re in each of our cells, performing important life functions like …
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year Awards
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented their 2020 Woman and Man of the Year Awards to Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt: the … director, and producer; the latter, the youngest recipient of the Man of the Year Award and one Oscar away from being …
Seniors of Note
… “The members of this year’s graduating class all possess talents and experiences that will carry them far in the world beyond the Yard. What follows is an unscientific selection—a sampling and snapshot—of six of the 1,570 “candidates for the first degree” …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Reunion of One’s Own
… When I arrived at Harvard in 1979, one of the campus wonders was the Science Center, shaped, according … trekked across campus to use them, while the rest of us wrote our term papers on typewriters. There were no …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Fiction of Limbo
… to self-analyze it, my guess is that it probably comes from the fact that my history is one of transit, of being in limbo.” For Yoon—whose most recent … emphasizes the physicality of memory: “Always to his surprise, it was this house his mind had often leaped to these …
Issue: May-June 2020
Boats and Coats
… who practiced his craft for many years at the Harvard-Smithson- ian Center for Astrophysics, died on … small!) telescopes to achieve the light-collecting power of impossibly larger single instruments (the feature now at the center of next-generation machines, like the Giant Magellan, described in “ Seeing …
Issue: May-June 2020
Your Take: The Frenetic Pace of College Life
… In the March-April issue, Craig Lambert writes about overscheduled undergraduates and the death of downtime . Read the article, and then tell us: Alumni: … lifestyles compare at other colleges? Do the stories of "snowplow parents" in this article ring true? Students: …
Issue: March-April 2010
Rendering Dreams in Art
… An ice-cream store worker in Seoul wants to explore the Arctic. A Taiwanese nut-seller yearns for her happier days in primary school. In Beijing, a waiter dreams of becoming a chef and serving his grandmother a splendid … complex in Seoul. Although each unit in the generic high-rise buildings is identical, Yeondoo captures the …
Issue: May-June 2025
In Defense of Academic Freedom
… “These are complicated days,” said Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt professor of physics, on Tuesday morning, as he welcomed the audience …
Geographers See Death, Birth, and Job Prospects
… Three days before Harvard’s launch of the Center for Geographic Analysis, National Geographic News … Geography was the first good opportunity.” Geography would rise from this wreckage. The quantitative method of …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Art of the Cookbook
… he was feeling burned out at a legal-services job. Next, in the mid 1980s he met, became friends with, and started … cold-station guy for Chris Schlesinger, former chef/owner of Cambridge’s renowned East Coast Grill. Willoughby had no … magazines at America’s Test Kitchen, another Kimball enterprise, based in Brookline, Massachusetts. It’s mostly in his …
Issue: March-April 2013