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Visas and Visions
… LOT at borders,” says Kavita Shah ’07, laughing, “I think they think I’m smuggling drugs because they see my passport … her varied experiences, her sound challenges the boundaries of geographic territories and musical genres. She first … different musical structures and traditions as a member of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, which …
Issue: May-June 2015
Vocals, Guitar, and Stethoscope
… come my way/ I ain’t always such a nice girl.” Like many of the bluesy, country-rock songs on Heartstrings, Brown’s … which favors the raspy edge of her pure voice. That surprised her. “I don’t even listen to country,” she says. “The …
Issue: September-October 2011
Fresh Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year will be Noah Pisner ’14 and … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Pisner, of Fairfax, Virginia, and Winthrop House, transferred to the College following a year at the University of Southern California, where he studied cinema and …
Issue: September-October 2013
Seeing Further
… R esearch universities change the world by taking the long view. Consider recombinant DNA. Fifty years ago, the possibility of manipulating and editing the building blocks of life had just been realized in laboratories devoted to …
Issue: November-December 2021
History, Crowdsourced
… Amid the COVID-19 lockdown this past spring, the Harvard … and eighteenth centuries. The ambitious effort is part of the multiyear digitization of manuscript diaries, letters, maps, documents, and …
Issue: November-December 2020
Graduate Students Strike
… A t press time, two days before the beginning of winter reading period, the Harvard Graduate … with day-long picket lines planned during the first week of December in Harvard Yard and at the Longwood medical …
Issue: January-February 2020
Three Cheers
… on each. Lincoln Caplan Photograph by Susan L. Carney The McCord Writing Prize (honoring David T.W. McCord ’21, … and senior research scholar at Yale Law School. He profiled Radcliffe Institute dean and civil rights historian … (January-February) and Elena Kagan, associate justice of the Supreme Court (November-December; see reader …
Issue: January-February 2023
“More Shots on Goal”
… on relatively simple, discrete tasks: classifying images of galaxies, for instance, or tracking birds in the backyard. But both research and industry are beginning … innovation,” a mindset that has prompted research enterprises from academia to industry to look beyond their …
Doing Good Scientifically
… to keep a Kenyan child in school? A decade ago, Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer found that improving … problem. That’s because—like one in four people around the world—many Kenyan pupils suffer parasitic-worm …
Life Lessons
… One summer’s day, the (terrestrial) mail brought, unbidden, a package from … who’d purged her shelves for a charity book sale, and one of the evicted volumes: the handsomely published, if somewhat acidified, Life of Amos A. Lawrence, with Extracts from his Diary and …
Issue: November-December 2019
Bites from Eastern Europe
… Moldovan restaurant. That country is not much bigger than the state of Massachusetts, but offers a more robust culinary heritage. Foods and flavors of …
Issue: November-December 2017
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their …
Issue: November-December 2015
Capturing Carbon
… a company, Carbon Engineering, in 2009, while he held the Canada Research Chair in energy and the environment at the University of Calgary, to capture carbon and use it to develop … projects. (He launched it with $3.5 million from a group of angel investors that included Bill Gates.) The pilot …
Issue: July-August 2013
All College Spring-Semester Grades Will Be Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory
… be graded on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory system, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay and dean of undergraduate …
University People
… University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard … appellate advocate, he has presented dozens of cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, he was lead author of the …
Issue: September-October 2004