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Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
… Afghanistan. Blue pigment rarely occurs in nature, making the rock exceptionally expensive; in medieval Europe, where … as gold. The pigment’s travels reflect the activity of merchants and artists around the world. Recently, researchers discovered the remains of lapis lazuli in the calcified dental plaque of a woman …
An Election Post-Mortem
… The Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics teemed with bodies far in advance of last night’s much-anticipated post-election panel … in the Clinton campaign’s strategy? Mook attributed her surprise loss almost entirely to the letter, released by FBI …
“This Is a Gift”
… University Press (HUP), all working from home, followed the news of demonstrations spreading around the country—and around … they needed to do more than simply issue a statement of solidarity. “We wanted to contribute actively in some …
On-Ramps
… Harvard’s Business School, Law School, and Graduate School of Education (HBS, HLS, HGSE) for M.B.A., J.D. and LL.M., … and Ed.M. degrees now can—and in some cases must —begin their programs of study before matriculating. Making use … and valuation—the basic language for understanding an enterprise’s performance and status. By one estimate, serious …
“Harvard Is Where You Are”
… Ellen G. Reeves ’83, Ed.M. ’86, is probably the first Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president to … Second City. And last fall she created Talk Show, a series of improvised performances run out of a storefront on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The show …
Issue: September-October 2011
Birds in Hand
… and birds. Birds are particularly tricky work. Rendering feathers demands finesse. No pigment yet captures true … up his stool, art supplies, and binoculars beside a swath of wetlands, and was lucky enough to watch a Virginia rail … to help protect wild birds. “Museum visitors have been surprised to see shorebird decoys,” Montague says, “because it’s …
Issue: May-June 2017
Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico
… in maternal health. Four months later, when she left the region, she had witnessed a home birth. “It was a very … and when you actually see it in real life.” Amanuel was one of the first two Harvard undergraduates who spent their spring semester in rural southern Mexico as part of the Global Health Equity Option (GHEO) Scholars program, …
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2018
… During the Morning Exercises of the 367th Commencement, on May 24, … include four distinguished leaders in the arts, an area of particular emphasis during the presidency of Drew Gilpin …
On Commencements
… some memorable addresses, (and forgettable ones). But the oration at the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises, on the … institution. No oration since has exceeded the reputation of “The American Scholar,” the 1837 edition by Ralph Waldo … not the favorite for the assignment.…[H]e received a surprise request from the committee in charge of the annual …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard Projects $750-Million Revenue Shortfall in Next Academic Year
… Harvard forecasts a net shortfall of $415 million in anticipated revenue for the fiscal year ending this June 30, reflecting the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and a further $750-million …
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
… Boston’s subway system is full of germs left behind by commuters on seats, poles, and … that may not be cause for concern, according to the results of a new study published this week in mSystems . The …
First-Gen Inclusion and Belonging
… Among other findings, Harvard’s 2019 “pulse survey,” the foundation for much of the University’s current work on diversity and inclusion, … students and almost every other cohort in their degree of comfort within the community. In response to the baseline …
Issue: January-February 2021
Creative Gifts
… Each year, organizers of the Harvard Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale hide the potters’ wheels and buckets of clay to hang pine boughs and stock up on apple cider, …
Issue: November-December 2018
Chapter & Verse: Who wrote...?
… “Unmeasur’d space is the Lord”s habitation” (March-April 2020). Gayle Sawtell … by Beethoven, composed in 1802 as the fourth in a cycle of six lieder (Opus 48) setting works by the German poet … four—inspired by “Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur” (The glory of God from nature), Gellert’s treatment of Psalm 19—is …
Issue: September-October 2021
Mystical Poet and American Novelist Launch Commencement Week
… Speaking in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning, poet Donald Revell and orator … poems. Boston-born novelist Barrett, whose collection of short stories Ship Fever won the National Book Award in … to become a writer in her thirties in order to make sense of the world (For detailed background on each, see Harvard …