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Toni Morrison: “Goodness Lurks Backstage”
… It was a tragedy of extreme proportions: nine girls shot in a one-room Amish … Litt.D. ’89, told her audience Thursday in Sanders Theatre, was the local community’s reaction in the … widow and children just as they embraced the relatives of the slain and wounded (five of the girls died; four …
Surrealism at Work
… The photographs above present additional images of work by … to a Montage article in the November-December 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine . Distorting architectural space and …
News Briefs
… Term Themes President Drew Faust , speaking at Morning Prayers in … broadly, she said that “simply gathering a diverse mixture of extraordinarily talented people in one place does not in … including and belonging,” with each member playing the role of “generous listeners.” Her full text is reported at …
Issue: November-December 2015
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
… Next month , Robert Reid-Pharr, renowned scholar of African-American and African diasporic gender and … sexuality studies, will join Harvard as its first senior professor hired solely in women, gender, and sexuality studies … assistant professor Durba Mitra, who was hired last year as the first faculty member ever solely in WGS; both hires come …
Harvard@Home
… The University’s on-line learning initiative has released … the fall 2005 conference on women and war, the other offers an Alumni College about Harvard’s role in the … Gender Matter?” brought together 20 experts from a variety of fields to discuss the nature of war and the role of …
Issue: May-June 2006
Hiram Hunn Award Winners
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid in September for their …
Issue: September-October 2018
Clergy Roar like Lions
… Commencements. Her diary was published last fall: Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman, edited by Helen R. Deese, the …
Issue: July-August 2006
Endowment Enigmas
… During the past two decades , this magazine has covered Harvard … by students, faculty members, and alumni for divestment of endowment fossil-fuel assets, and University responses to … Corporation has declined to divest, but is pursuing a goal of “net-zero” greenhouse-gas emissions across the investment …
Issue: November-December 2021
Lingua Branca
… The Brooklyn Dodgers All-Star pitcher Ralph Branca, whose … , by inveterate sports buff Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and former dean of Harvard College. In …
Issue: March-April 2012
Pete Seeger ’40 Sings for Occupy Wall Street
… Pete Seeger '40, who dropped out of Harvard in the late 1930s to pursue a lifelong career as a singer and … wearing a red knit cap and carrying two canes. He then set off south, walking at a brisk pace and accompanied by a …
Peacemakers
… As the world has been shaken by renewed terrorism and war in … the past academic year—it was poignant that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) memorial minutes honoring … at the April 2 faculty meeting each touched on the lives of professors who labored long and hard to de-escalate the …
Issue: July-August 2024
Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute
… Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, has made a $350-million gift to support the research of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired … time and join me in helping to build this incredible enterprise and expand its impact even further in the years to …
Grade Inflation Resolved
… months since you asked us to prepare a full report on the problem of grade inflation at Harvard. Even though the following … an A+. To bring you up to date on the current state of grade inflation here in Cambridge, we offer the following …
Issue: March-April 2002
Eric Lander and Dan Chiasson at Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
… The Alpha Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will feature Dan … Chiasson, Ph.D. ’01, as poet and Eric Lander as orator at the 229th Literary Exercises, the headline event on Tuesday … annual Commencement celebrations. Chiasson, the Wang professor of English at Wellesley College , is a poet, poetry …
How Do Movies Use Music?
… Midway through the 2001 jukebox musical film Moulin Rouge! , Ewan McGregor serenades Nicole Kidman on a rooftop. As McGregor woos Kidman, he cycles through a dozen … Robert Kraft ’76 guest lectured about the practical side of film music. From 1994 to 2012, Kraft served as the …