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Is Pedagogy About Us?
… What civic and political ills had made certain regions of Chicago sites of gang violence? We mulled the question for a few directionless minutes before a … to improve. In the absence of discomfort, the entire enterprise of higher education becomes trite at best. We must …
Issue: January-February 2024
Harvard Patterns
… Every time a Harvard office hires an architect, designer, or planner—and … that happens frequently—plans and maps and other kinds of information are requested from the University's central …
Issue: September-October 2002
Learning to Lose
… I’ll begin, straight off, with losing.” As far as opening remarks go, those words wouldn’t seem to augur well for the ensuing speech. But on Thursday night at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of talks on careers in the humanities, Sharmila …
Google Named Development Partner to edX
… edX , the nonprofit Harvard-MIT online learning partnership , … of edX's platform, even as for-profit online enterprises seek to enlarge their markets. It may also affect … to the announced practices of for-profit MOOC enterprises, including Coursera and Udacity. edX member …
A Pact with Solitude
… I have never thought of loneliness as a gift or a reward. But it is a chance to … own best company. Last summer, I spent 52 days alone in the south of France, writing for Harvard's student-run travel series …
Deconstructionism
… Interior demolition of the Fogg Art Museum proceeded during the early summer, … were shored up (and that doorway on the upper left of the Fogg structure became a dysfunctional exit). …
Issue: September-October 2010
I Saw You…Standing There
… iSawYou is a “missed connections” site, a sort of hybrid between a personals section and “America’s Most Wanted.” The idea is that if you see someone in the Square who … You Harvard and have at least some chance, however remote, of getting in touch. Lamont bottom floor Posted at …
Issue: May-June 2010
Harvard Calendar
… THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents … the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music perform Mozart's Requiem on February 14. … p.m. in Sanders Theatre. For tickets, call the Harvard Box Office at 617-496-2222. Harvard's Jazz Bands perform at the …
Issue: January-February 2004
Clarifying the Rules of Protest
… In an email to the Harvard community on Friday afternoon, Interim President … Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Calling the guarantee of free speech “integral to the values of our University,” the email pointed to the specific …
Alchemist's Ink
… What alchemy makes images on paper move? The secret, Jerome Rubin explains, is in the ink: "an ink … you coat it on--paper, plastic, fabric--into the equivalent of a computer screen. "Imagine a huge number of microcapsules," he says, "maybe 40 microns in diameter, …
Allston Agonistes
… have each sent her letters, outlining competing visions for the development of the University’s 127 acres of contiguous undeveloped … near-term is the permitting of Harvard’s proposed “enterprise research campus,” a largely commercial project of …
Seven-Week Itch
… Coaches and athletes throughout the Ivy League gnashed their teeth this fall over a new … No one can stop students from working out on their own, of course, but the rule "reinforces the voluntary nature of that activity," says Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, senior …
Issue: January-February 2003
An Art Installation in Allston
… At the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue lies “the Grove,” a triangle of green space that will host a new public art installation …
$125-Million Gift for Bioengineering
… Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, who became president of the U.S. division of Synthes in 1977 and drove the company to global …
Image Blogger
… people to e-mail pictures to friends and family, but few of these photographers are as well-traveled as Steve Potter … communications director for iRacing.com, a developer of digital simulations for the motor-sport industry, has had …
Issue: July-August 2007