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… (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected fellows of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. Barakett, a … ways to connect the House’s six disparate buildings, trisected by city streets; enlarged dining areas; a fully …
Issue: May-June 2019
President Faust?
… The Crimson went live at 11:57 p.m. on February 8 with a web report that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be … twenty-eighth president ( www.thecrimson.com ). A Board of Overseers meeting is being scheduled for this Sunday and …
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
Mnemonic Masks
… ago , Phillip Charette, M.Ed. '94, spent his days in an office, handling visa applications and other logistical concerns for international students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now he makes his living as an artist, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Ballet’s Geometry, Torqued
… with smartphone in hand, eyes fixed on an inches-wide video of the steps she should take. Two others windmill their arms, … arc and momentum just right. “It’s really unnatural!” one of them says. Supervising, choreographer Claudia Schreier …
Issue: May-June 2017
A New Light on DNA Storage
… in flash-drive memory chips could consume 10 to 100 times the anticipated supply of microchip-grade silicon . With new ways of storing information desperately needed, Winthrop …
Issue: March-April 2021
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
A Radcliffe Return
… her favorite section: first balcony, left side, overlooking the Klarman Hall auditorium stage. As class begins, students … who Samuels is, too. At 85 years old, the Radcliffe class of 1955 graduate is at least a half-century older than … birthday. “I think the people in the orchestra were surprised to see an old grandma,” she jokes. But when the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Our Masked Selves
… In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, amid spreading … Angeles artist Richard Nielsen painted a colorful portrait of himself in a mask. Soon, he was painting friends and …
Issue: March-April 2021
Brevia
… The Corporation Replenished Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D. ’76, … Gordon Mills ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, … Rubin ’60, LL.D. ’01 , whose service concludes at the end of the academic year. Chenault is chairman and chief …
Issue: May-June 2014
Russian Fallout
… In September, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in federal … million in damages from Harvard University, one tenured professor, and three other individuals who, the complaint …
“Hands On” with Fragile Glass Sea Creatures
… When James Hanken became the director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) two decades ago, the museum’s …
Braxton Shelley
… five, he approached his church’s organist, fascinated by the man’s movement of hands and feet. The organist told Shelley, now assistant professor of music, to ask his grandmother to arrange lessons. …
Issue: May-June 2021
Buzzing about Bees
… The Harvard Museum of Natural History is home to all sorts of intriguing preserved specimens, from dinosaur skeletons to animals from around the world. But in one corner of the arthropod gallery, amid …
Issue: May-June 2019
"To Repair This Imperfect World"
… “Worrying seems about as necessary as breathing these days,” President Lawrence J. Bacow remarked last … address them will have to be based in deep considerations of equity and justice, of community and humanity. How do we prepare our students to …