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Place-Making with Plastic Tubes
… To the passing observer , Autumn (...Nothing Personal) is merely a cluster of tall plastic yellow and orange tubes mounted on simple wooden benches in the middle of Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre. Artist Teresita Fern á …
E-mail Search Protocols Update
… In the wake of revelations last spring that resident deans’ … 2012, during an Administrative Board investigation of undergraduate academic misconduct, President Drew Faust … Barron to establish University policies and procedures for the privacy of electronic communications. In the wake of an …
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
"I'll Never Get Over What Happened to My Son"
… About halfway through Monday evening’s panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School, Lezley McSpadden announced that … son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a white police officer. Brown was black and unarmed, and his death ignited … seemed surer; the campaign, she said, would be part of her larger advocacy for laws and policies to protect …
Authoritarian Regimes’ AI Innovation Advantage
… For the past decade, China has led the world in advanced-facial … systems. Chinese companies dominate the rankings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Face Recognition Vendor Test, …
Issue: May-June 2022
“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
"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 …
$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 …
Word to Live By
… razing Appleton Chapel to make way for Memorial Church. On the ground lay this stained glass window. What’s to become of that? he asked the foreman. Would you like it? was the reply. Of course, said Hunn, whereupon workers crated the glass, …
Issue: January-February 2006
Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism, Arab Spring
… Islamophobia is a problem in the United States, and anti-Americanism is a problem in the … Those conflicting realities were the idea behind a series of gifts by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal … to six universities, including Harvard , and the topic of a February 8 panel discussion among the leaders of the …
A Call for Public Service
… Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, quoting a CNN report on the topic: “Sex, exercise—and public service.” She plans to focus on public service this year as the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). “It makes us feel good to take care of others,” she explains, “and with the Obama …
Issue: September-October 2009
Jumping for Joy
… bouncing around, defying gravity, just feels good. And then there are those with real ambition. “I had this idea … says John Sequeira. So, the athletic Cambridge father of four would go to the Sky Zone on a Friday or Saturday night to practice devoid of cavorting kids (including his). He’d even taken a few …
Issue: January-February 2023
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
Dining & Shopping Directory
… The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Cambridge 02138; … 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 02138; 617-496-0700. The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge … ordering and shipping information, call 800-368-1882. www.thecoop.com . Harvard University Press, Holyoke Arcade, …
Issue: May-June 2002