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Five Questions with Ashton Keen
… inspiration and practice. What’s your favorite part of making pottery? “My favorite part is probably throwing and then altering a form. So, you throw it on the wheel, and … to fit the way that I want it to fit. I love the challenge of making something come to fruition—not finishing it, not …
Fighting West Nile
… brew he uses to attract female mosquitoes. He prepares the infusion according to a simple recipe. Add hay, with perhaps a touch of fecal matter, to a 55-gallon, water-filled barrel fitted … ready to use. Reiter, a scientist with the dengue branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in …
Issue: November-December 2001
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
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 …
Making Charitable Giving More Competent
… that positive emotions drive charitable giving, and nonprofits rely on this impulse to help others when they solicit donations. But what if some of these same warm feelings actually prevent donors from …
Issue: May-June 2023
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
Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Secrets
… Something about the statue made it unforgettable to Ellery Sedgwick, A.B. … it for him three days later: a life-sized wooden statue of a small boy dressed in red, his hands pressed together as if in prayer or meditation. Sedgwick—owner-editor of the Atlantic Monthly— purchased the piece and had it …
Mormonism and Mortality
… James Allworth and Karen Dillon), focuses on values and offers its readers guidance in aligning their choices, professional and otherwise, with the things that genuinely …
Issue: July-August 2014
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
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
Vote Now
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
Issue: May-June 2023
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
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
Charades with Chutzpah
… live on in Widener Library’s Judaica Collection as relics of a bygone—but not yet dormant—art form. Beginning in the mid-1800s, European children and their bubbes headed to … At the time, Eastern Europe had a millennia-old community of Yiddish-speaking Jews, and they wanted to act in their …
Issue: July-August 2023
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 …