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Sculptural Forms
… above a traffic circle next to a beachside promenade on the Atlantic Ocean in Porto, Portugal. The permanent public … hung. The membranous sculpture appears to float at the whim of the winds, constantly assuming different forms and colors … says Echelman. “My sculpture makes visible the choreography of the wind.” The materials used also reflect the site’s …
Issue: November-December 2005
Lindsay Sanwald, Graduate English Address
… not yet born today will want to know… where were you when the World stopped? It could be your future granddaughter, … Presidential memoir. How will you tell this time? For many of us here today, we get to answer that we were students at … my first and final spring on campus. I began in the fall of 2019 as a fully embodied presence in the classrooms, but …
Rounding into Form
… On New Year’s Eve , the Harvard women’s basketball team beat Stony Brook 60-53. … serious problems. Among them: her team “was not fluid offensively,” she said, and her players’ confidence was … basketball head coaching position. According to Catherine Crisera ’96, who is spearheading the effort with former …
“Like Driving at Night”
… arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. The current Los Angeles resident—born in Orange County, but … attended the College, and her mother the Graduate School of Education. Shipstead says she entered as an “aggressive” … the palpable sorrow hanging over fellow students, many of them East Coasters. With time, she learned to temper her …
Issue: May-June 2021
Virtual Graduation 2.0
… Anyone who worked remotely during the past 16 months knows that doing business digitally is … . More evidence came during “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021,” on May 27: the second COVID-era virtual graduation … Lawrence S. Bacow and the deans assembled online knocked off the conferring of degrees in about three minutes flat—a …
Issue: July-August 2021
Brevia
… Would-Be Honorands Before COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that … would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013—perhaps the nation’s leading newspaper journalist during an era of traumatic change within the industry and of unprecedented …
Issue: May-June 2020
A Chaucer Tale
… Yorker newsbreak (those column-ending items harvested from other media) captured this community’s braininess by relating one side of a telephone conversation overheard in the Radcliffe registrar’s office: “No, that’s ‘D,’ as in Dostoevsky.” Plus ça change …
Issue: May-June 2018
Boston’s Cycleboat Cruises
… Sipping their canned tequila cocktails, two young women who’d hopped … with a smile, about 10 minutes into the 90-minute tour of Boston’s inner harbor. The refreshing trip offers a novel perspective on the city and its landmarks. …
Issue: July-August 2021
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
Silvana Gómez’s Undergraduate English Address
… Creating–Not Accepting–Our New Normal The morning of my first day of kindergarten, I woke up ready to take on the day. At five …
New Semester, New Minister, New Questions
… Speaking at the first Morning Prayers service of the new semester, her … used the occasion to welcome Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer professor of Christian morals, as the new Pusey Minister of …
Racial Bias and Redistricting
… last year, legislators and independent commissions across the United States have been busy redrawing the contours of American democracy. The redistricting process occurs once … voting advantage for a particular group. Partisan fighting arises over the question of who gets the advantage, and how …
Issue: March-April 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
Brevia
… Giang T. Nguyen has been appointed executive director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), which provides … students and to faculty and staff members who choose it for their health benefits. A family-medicine practitioner, he … venture-capital firm for difficult-to-build enterprises (in fields like energy from fusion, which need lots of …
Issue: November-December 2019
Coming Home, Coming Out
… public gay activist. In Brooklyn, New York, where he was the only child in a Conservative Jewish household, he kept … who was equally dismayed. Sandi Dubowski '92 Courtesy of Sandi Dubowski Dubowski says his parents never rejected him outright. But as is often the case when gays and lesbians "come out" to their …
Issue: March-April 2004