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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
Communities We Choose
… As he walked to Phillips Brooks House's annual plant sale, the undergraduate paused at a newfound clearing in the Yard … renovated Holworthy Hall. He thought back to how that end of the Yard had looked during his own first year in Thayer Hall, which now had a new fifth floor of living space. He wondered if the renovation, part of a …
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
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
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
President Garber, Provost Manning
… Having shed the “interim” title on August 2, President Alan M. Garber … solidified his administration by ending the interim status of his designated successor as provost, former Harvard Law … March 14, both helped Garber assume leadership at a time of extraordinary demands on Massachusetts Hall and enabled …
“Bravery, Not Perfection”
… before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P. ’99, … that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send …
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 …
Stories for Change
… continued into a career in journalism, most recently as theater critic for The Dallas Morning News. Nancy Churnin Photograph courtesy of Nancy Churnin Through covering a play about William Hoy—a … baseball player in the 1890s—she met Steve Sandy, a member of the deaf community, whose dream was to see Hoy inducted …
Issue: January-February 2018
A Poet’s Return
… ended up going by crab tender,” says Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, of her latest work trip. “It’s not lavish, or glamorous, … riding a crab tender out, 90 miles, 12 hours across the Bering Sea.” Kane’s choice of transportation—a small boat used alongside larger vessels …
Issue: January-February 2015
“Pugnacious” Poet and Pulitzer Prize-Winner at Phi Beta Kappa
… and orator Linda Greenhouse ’68, speaking in Sanders Theatre, launched the Memorial Day-shortened Commencement … a reputation as a pugnacious poet rooted in his home ground of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and his adopted home of San Francisco; Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Chocolate à la Vietnamese
… for Susan Lieu ’07 and her older sister, Wendy, founders of Sôcôla Chocolatier. ( Sôcôla, from the French chocolat , means “chocolate” in Vietnamese.) They … To Me Guava and Notorious H.O.G. (a play on the stage name of the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G.)--are tantalizing …
Issue: November-December 2010
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 …
Researchers Find Earliest Known Human Fossil Outside Africa
… human ancestors are thought to have begun migrating out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, but new evidence of human remains in a prehistoric cave finds that they left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than …
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 …