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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
Punching Judy
… in small groups, chatting quietly, loafers clicking against the brick sidewalk. Blue blazers and neckties flap in the … Harvard these days, with jeans and sweats the everyday mode of dress, shed only for House formals, it seems. But these undergraduates are off to formal dinners, in Boston and its environs, at the …
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 …
Harvard’s Financial Outlook in an Unprecedented Semester
… Just 10 weeks ago , Harvard deans learned that the Corporation would decrease distributions from the endowment, rather than increasing them , in light of the pandemic-induced recession and reduced investment … hundred million dollars either way would not come as a surprise. Vice president for finance and chief financial officer …
New Masters Appointed for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses
… Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammonds today announced the appointment of new masters and co-masters for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather … respectively: Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor, and Stephanie Khurana Douglas Melton , a Faculty of …
Brevia
… Heads of Houses Lakshminarayanan “Maha” Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan Photograph courtesy of Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan … Chen have been appointed faculty deans of Dunster House; they succeed Roger Porter and the late Ann Porter (who died …
Issue: July-August 2017
Records, Rescued
… The rarest and most delicate artifacts in the Packard … shattered. But the format is also inherently unstable. The soft lacquer coating is prone to cracking or flaking off, warping, curling—separating from the rigid base …
Issue: July-August 2017
Introducing: Ask a Harvard Professor
… Have you ever wondered whether marijuana is harmful to the brain? Or pondered what … great? These are among the questions we ask Harvard professors, eliciting the nuanced and thoughtful responses … devotion to a subject. But can you trust the testimony of an academic? Harvard Magazine’s new podcast, Ask a …
University People
… by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC Honor Roll Conant University Professor Danielle S. Allen has been awarded the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The prize, announced by the Librarian of …
Issue: September-October 2020
21,000 Hours
… Convocation ceremony in 2009—a formal public greeting of new freshmen by the president and deans, and the only occasion when the … year’s Convocation took place on Labor Day, one of the last scorching hot days of the summer. “We have …
Home Sweet Home: Transform Your Space for Spring
… The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and it’s finally … Valerie Achorn, M.P.A. ’98, president and founder of Simplified Lives, adheres to the “magic of ten” rule: Tackle ten items at a time. Perhaps that means …
Issue: March-April 2019
Footnotes: Frank Roosevelt at Harvard
… This assessment appears in Geoffrey Ward's Before the Trumpet (Harper & Row, 1984), an invaluable source of material for this article. Other good accounts of …
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
Human-Family Reunions
… To the trained interpreter, the human genome is a record of the … imprint through natural selection; meanwhile, patterns of genetic similarity among different individuals hint at …
Issue: July-August 2014
Afghanistan Will Be What It Always Was
… Saturday morning I awoke to hear that Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province, had fallen to the Taliban. It surprised me, only because I would have expected Qalat to just …