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Permafrost Fare
… as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and printed materials. A recipe for soured seal … Her simple instructions are followed by a direct appraisal of the outcome. “Most of the boys and girls don’t like it, …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
… Four members of the College class of 2023 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2023-24 academic year. Meredith Johns, of Winthrop …
Issue: July-August 2023
News Briefs
… Amherst College announced in October that it will end the alumni preference in its admissions decisions. “[C]hildren of alumni who are academically well-qualified” make up about 11 percent of each class now, it said, but “Going forward, legacy …
Issue: January-February 2022
Life After Brain Injury
… ill, suddenly fumbling over her words during a meeting and then fading in and out of consciousness as friends rushed her home and her husband … fever hovered between 101 and 103 degrees. When, on day 10 of her coma, her husband agreed to let doctors wean Gold off …
Committee Recommends a More Transparent Tenure Process
… In 2020 , fifteen years after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) adopted the current form of its formal tenure procedures, FAS dean Claudine Gay …
2021 HAA Award Winners
… Six alumni have received the HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. James E. Bowers James E. Bowers, J.D. ’70, of West Hartford, Connecticut, has served as chair of the … on Participant-Centered Learning and the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network consortium. Jay G. Hooper Jay G. …
Issue: November-December 2021
Honoring a Life with Birds
… Growing up in Cambridge and wandering the wilds of Fresh Pond in the late 1800s, William Brewster scanned the trees and shoreline for signs of fluttering wings, listening for even the faintest peeps, …
Issue: July-August 2022
Learners, Grizzled and Downy
… William Randall ’72 had an ambivalent relationship to the College. “Harvard,” he wrote some decades ago, “haunts … written about his own path to Cambridge, from the village of Harvey Station, in New Brunswick, Canada, where he grew … it, changed in ways he hardly expected. Those are the kinds of reunion experiences that are never fully accessible to …
Issue: September-October 2022
A Post-Plague Outpost
… A new installation at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts looms like a scene from … death, wildfires, and political upheavals, the components of Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping came together as an … Center, with “animal hybrid forms that have come out of my imagination since I was a child.” She made these …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard's Black-Hole Debunker
… Kareem El-Badry smiles as he recites one of his favorite quotes: “It’s not the things you don’t know that hurt you. It’s the things you … think you know but just ain’t so.” The paraphrased line, often attributed to Mark Twain, has guided El-Badry’s …
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
… Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is lifted as if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat … schemed in side-yard sun. Where I live marshes fill with them, dull wanderers stoned by trash, the fog-eye of acid-mist. Mud flats, pocked, keep all half-sunk, half …
Issue: September-October 2004
Deep Roots
… Nwandu ’ 02 has a lot to say. Dressed for battle in the Brooklyn writer’s uniform—sunglasses, leather jacket, … uncharted destinations. Exploratory dialogue is the métier of any good playwright, and Nwandu is very good. Her … deconstruction, and Biblical prophecy. A reinterpretation of Waiting for Godot for the era of Michael Brown and …
Issue: March-April 2020
Special Gifts
… As Harvard University pursues exciting opportunities—from the arts and engineering sciences to ever-wider … the ever-expanding University—at a time when the high value of its work matters as never before to the world—and to … Harvard Magazine requires more and different kinds of funding. Special gifts from alumni enable Harvard …
Comedy with a Conscience
… TV experience, Jimmy Tingle did something that hardly any of his comedic colleagues would have opted for—or even, … to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). “I’d performed at lots of fundraisers for nonprofit, social, and political causes,” … into public service.” At his commencement, Tingle delivered the Graduate English Address , capping the experience of …
Issue: May-June 2023
Brevia
… On Wednesday afternoon, May 27, M.Arch. candidates from the Design School who were still in town arranged themselves … R. Martin Chávez ’85, S.M. ’85, has been elected president of the Board of Overseers for the 2020-2021 academic year, and Beth …
Issue: July-August 2020