Search
A Second Chance, Seized
… women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith sat on the bleachers in Lavietes Pavilion, still dismayed by her … NCAAs. The Crimson drew a road matchup with the University of New Hampshire, the regular-season champion in the America … East Conference, on Friday night. Harvard made the most of that opportunity, defeating the Wildcats 69-56 to improve …
Primal Kitchens
… The most dramatic moment in human evolution took place about 1.9 million years ago, with the emergence of homo erectus. "Something radical happened," says professor of anthropology Richard Wrangham. "The change …
Alyssa Goodman
… deep sea to outer space. Last year, she was appointed professor of astronomy, becoming the second female full professor in that department—and the … the preconditions for star formation, a phenomenon that arises in cores within molecular clouds; gravity, magnetic …
Immigrant Stories, in Song
… Tonight, a digital Broadway concert offers the first glimpse of what will become Lives in Limbo , the musical. The …
Brevia
… Pudding Pluralism On the occasion of honoring (and roasting) Woman of the Year Mila Kunis—a star of That 70s Show, Family Guy, …
Issue: March-April 2018
Far from Clueless
… Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks … and management consulting firms in New York City. "I was on the treadmill with everybody else," she says. "But my heart … television, before 32 million viewers. Lidskog is one of four members of the newly-created "Clue Crew" for …
Issue: January-February 2002
Harvard’s Governing Boards Refreshed
… It’s the changing of the University guard: as President Drew Faust conducts her … Accordingly, Penny S. Pritzker ’81 (former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and a past Harvard Overseer) and Carolyn A. …
An Auspicious View
… The effect takes a moment to sink in: a double-sided folding … and azurite blue. On one side, the instantly recognizable profile of Mount Fuji, with its long, snow-covered slopes sweeping …
Issue: November-December 2020
Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored
… Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, and retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective undergraduates. Glen Cheng ’93, of Hong Kong, has interviewed candidates there since 1994, …
Issue: November-December 2021
Thinking Straight
… Does rational reasoning count for anything these days? The evidence is discouraging, but as Johnstone Family professor of psychology Steven Pinker argues, the answer had better be …
Issue: January-February 2022
Roxanne Guenette
… “One of the big questions of science is trying to understand how our universe works,” … is 25 percent of matter currently unknown? We know it’s there, but don’t know what it is.” That she pursues such …
Issue: March-April 2021
Where Darwin Meets Doonesbury
… Had T.S. Eliot '10 written a senior thesis at Harvard, he might have realized that March, not April, is the cruelest month. For the three out of five seniors who write honors theses, March is the period of greatest stimulus and stress. Most seniors have …
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
… In 2015, while she was working on The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and … Responsibility (Harvard, 2018), Erin I. Kelly, Ph.D. ’95, professor of philosophy at Tufts, interviewed Winfred Rembert …
Issue: September-October 2021
Educating Educators
… Bridget Terry Long had the good timing to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on July 1, 2018—the same day that the …
Issue: July-August 2019
An Arts Advance
… President Drew Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith have … initiative to develop an undergraduate concentration in theater, dance, and media. The proposal must undergo the … FAS campaign literature on “Faculty and Our Scholarly Enterprise” (some $600 million within the overall $2.5-billion …