Search
$10 Million for a More Inclusive Faculty
… The Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, set up by … report this morning, with a broad, University-wide set of recommendations to ensure that Harvard “integrate[s] all members of the University into academic, professional, and social …
Classical Studies and Today’s Middle East
… Wedged between an economic Scylla that privileges the study of science and a Charybdis where history before … Rome, and their neighbors offer guidance on current crises … 1508 … 1513 … Classical Studies and Today’s Middle …
CS50’s Expanding Global Reach
… During the first lecture of “Introduction to Computer Science I,” best known as CS50, McKay professor of the practice of computer science David Malan …
Issue: May-June 2016
Good Fat in a White Hat
… Palmitoleate —an unconventional fat discovered in 2008 at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)—prevents cardiovascular disease when … fellow at HSPH from 2004 to 2010; she is now an assistant professor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She and her …
Harvard Divinity School Launches Capital Campaign
… The Harvard Divinity School may be one of the smallest … building, 103-year-old Andover Hall; increase the number of endowed chairs; boost financial-aid packages; and …
Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces
… The music of Roomful of Teeth , the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble who performed at Dumbarton …
Anthologizing Yourself
… After squeezing nearly 1,000 years of creativity into the Norton Anthology of Poetry , Mary Jo Salter ’76 began … students to her: “It seems like we’re all in this enterprise together, trying to keep poetry alive.” Not that it’s …
Issue: July-August 2008
An Astronomer's Desert Photography
… At twilight, the bulbous hoodoos and sculpted plateaus of the Sonoran … Those two-dimensional moments fell on either side of his nights spent observing stars at Tucson’s Kitt Peak …
Issue: July-August 2022
Talking About War—During a War on Osama bin Laden
… her Jefferson Lecture, "Telling War Stories," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities , Monday evening … impose an articulable structure on the ineffable experience of war, Faust argued, we lend it a significance and even a … it a teleology. This is why it can provide the satisfaction of meaning to its participants; this too is why it offers …
Special Advertising Section: Harvard Authors' Bookshelf
… To advertise your book in the Harvard Authors' Bookshelf—Holiday Reading List , please … all Harvard Authors! Advertise your book in time for the holidays. … Special Advertising Section: Harvard …
"I Can't See My Family"
… The plan was to video chat his parents on the day of … parents actually did not tune in during the entire main day of Commencement, and I was very worried about what was going …
Noah Harris, Senior English Address
… The Caged Bird Sings “I know why the caged bird sings,” … my voice would never feel caged again. The caged bird sings of hope . Most forms of confinement are not as manageable as shyness. I think of …
Ginsburg Discusses Justice and Advocacy at Radcliffe Day Celebration
… When associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. … at Harvard Law School in the mid 1950s, she was one of just nine women in her class. Only a handful of women had …
Cabaret and Cooperation
… A cabaret singer, known simply as “Meow Meow,” struts onto the stage—her golden dress shimmering, her Disney-Villainess … lifts her arms a second time. Again, no flowers. She walks off stage in a huff, fetches her own bouquet, returns to the … and hands it to a woman in the audience. Then she walks off again. Moments later, Thomas Lauderdale ’92, seated at …
Issue: July-August 2019
Scoring Moves
… In track, sprinters kick off their starting blocks with all their might, springing … an emphatic dunk is invariably preceded by an emphatic push off the floor. But athletes don’t have the advantage of a …
Issue: November-December 2022