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Words with No Freedom
… “Free should the scholar be,” claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. “Free even to the definition of freedom.” Speaking to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society, … Ages” demonstrated how intense intellectual commitment can arise behind bars. If academic writing is supposed to develop …
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 …
Congo Report
… The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy … New York artist Anne Eisner, who was seduced by his tales of a primitive people living in an exquisite tropical … career in Manhattan to join him at Camp Putnam—a sort of dude ranch with a guesthouse on the Epulu River at the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Get Out Your Photo Albums
… albums, or pore over your digital archives, and send us the images that convey your favorite memories of Harvard Commencement. (For inspiration, see photographer Jim Harrison's contributions in " The Essence of Commencement ," our visual feature from the May-June …
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 …
“Here and Then Gone”
… In playwright Bess Wohl’s work—sweet and sharp and sad, and often darkly funny—something important is usually missing. In American Hero, it is the owner of a new sandwich franchise who mysteriously disappears, …
Issue: January-February 2019
Perseus in 3-D
… Sitting at home at your computer, you--the armchair traveler--can now tour a region of the Perseus molecular cloud, a dense patch of interstellar medium located 700 light-years from Earth …
Issue: May-June 2009
Getting In
… "Yes!" I shouted, punching the air as I hung up the phone. I jumped off the bed where I had been keeping vigil all morning and … my wife. She was coming up the stairs from her basement office. "Well?" she asked, her eyes anxious until she saw …
Harvard Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 25, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except …
Issue: March-April 2017
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
Radcliffe Institute Dean Appointed
… President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a Harvard faculty member since 1986, to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study …
“For Exceptional Service…”
… Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards (during the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors’ fall meeting), for their outstanding service to the University. Danguole Spakevicius Altman ’81 of Houston, a member of her class’s thirty-fifth-reunion …
Issue: September-October 2018
Seven Harvard Affiliates Named HHMI Investigators
… The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that it … research. Among those named a 2021 HHMI investigator is professor of chemistry and chemical biology Emily Balskus, whose …
Revitalizing Tozzer
… The Tozzer Library building on Divinity Avenue adjacent to … reconstruction during the next year and a half as part of a $20-million Faculty of Arts and Sciences project to consolidate the anthropology …
Issue: November-December 2012
Laughter and Lyrics—Legally
… a call from us if we had an idea,” says Laurence O’Keefe. “Of course, it might be a short call.” “Yeah,” says Nell … an opera about Stalin.’ ‘Well...thanks, Larry and Nell!’ ” They both laugh. Partners in art and life (married in 2001) … top criterion: “Try to start a song with a bang or a surprise and then end with a bang or a surprise.” Producers can …
Issue: September-October 2014