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Mexican Soul
… Claudia García ’05 arrived at Harvard with a clear sense of purpose. In her case, though, that purpose was a little … as much in her College application, sending in a video of herself performing with her high-school ensemble—García on violin, all of them in their embroidered trajes —and as the song ended, she …
Issue: May-June 2022
Headliners
… Harvard will welcome a lot of high-wattage speakers to campus this graduation season, reflecting the unusual number of University events. Commencement proper, for the class of …
Issue: May-June 2022
New Impressions
… to reach fresh audiences. Autumn is an ideal time to sample the city’s vibrant cultural life, as the sidewalks swell … students returning to campus and summer travelers shake off the sand. On Thursday, September 21, the MFA ( … with a Latinx Heritage Night, partnering with local nonprofits Amplify Latinx and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción. …
Issue: September-October 2023
Election Results 2023
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Commencement Confetti
… Affinities Affirmed There are now eight University-wide affinity group … post-pandemic downshifting has been punctuated by large layoffs at Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft…all the way to Zoom. Further evidence of softness in the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Damage and Repair
… When Celia Pym ’01 was 28, her great uncle died, and her father, going through the old man’s things, found a sweater he thought she would like. Pym was just starting out as a professional artist, feeling her way toward a focus on … In some places, the wool had thinned to a fragile web of loops. “And as soon as I held it,” she says, “I could …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard’s NBA Champion
… For a couple of years now, the Harvard men’s basketball team and Denver Nuggets star … the College. (In fact, the seven-foot-tall center played professional basketball in his native Serbia before joining …
Snuffing Flames with Electricity
… Three years ago , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) laid … and ground vehicles, continues to be a major cause of material destruction and loss of warfighter life,” noted the agency in its announcement. …
Issue: July-August 2011
Everyday Indigeneity
… Within a few shelves at Tozzer Library, the boundaries between academia and daily existence blur. Here, hundreds of ordinary items from 2000s Indigenous life—zines, comics, … games, and language learning tools—exist alongside some of the world’s oldest, most comprehensive anthropology and …
Issue: September-October 2023
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
… in April and a conference a few days later , Harvard joined the long list of universities that have conducted public investigations … report lays out the findings and reparative recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of …
Issue: July-August 2022
Binational Physician
… to her native Sri Lanka, she remembered Interplast, the nonprofit a fellow physician had told her about. The … willing to make the necessary contacts, and rally a team of physicians, it would lend her its support. That was in …
Issue: January-February 2004
“Anyone Can Be an Activist”
… Across the political spectrum, Harvard alumni concerned about the state of U.S. democracy, their apprehensions later intensified by … The group works with its members to prevent election crises, promote reforms, and expand the number of government …
Jameela Pedicini Named First HMC VP For Sustainable Investing
… partnerships related to ESG investing, and on issues of interest emerging on Harvard’s campus,” said Kathryn Murtagh, managing director and chief compliance officer at HMC , in a press release. The appointment was made as the University is taking a …
Debating Gender
… comments last January on women’s interests and aptitudes as they might affect careers in academic science, two Harvard … experts debated the issues on April 22. A video recording of the lively “conversation” on “The Science of Gender and Science,” between Johnstone Family professor …
Issue: July-August 2005
Honoris Causa
… degrees on May 25. Provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Lawrence … Adm. Michael G. Mullen, Ret., the seventeenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving under both Presidents George H. W. Bush …
Issue: July-August 2023