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Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open
… interdisciplinary center for creativity and innovation on the University’s Allston campus, is undergoing “final … inaugural director is contemporary art curator and arts professional Bree Edwards, who has served as the director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Arts. The …
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Poetry, Architecture, and Dance, Combined
… In one scene, the pitch-black auditorium reverberates with the desolate sound of a droning sonar—and nothing else. In another, headphoned … original cast member of One Flat Thing , said she was surprised her Harvard students were able to create such a …
News Briefs
… Giving Guidance In the wake of the “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal (which … it with The Harvard Gazette , Provost Alan Garber, chair of the University gift policy committee (the referee for …
Issue: September-October 2020
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
School Days
… have benefited from a first-rate education, not only of late but throughout our lives. Whether through family support, dedicated teachers, or privileged access to better schools, virtually all of us were fortunate enough to be loved, nurtured, and …
“Good Trouble”
… In the five weeks since a gunman killed 17 people and injured … national gun-control campaign unseen in the aftermath of any other modern mass shooting. Six of them—Ryan Deitsch, Matt Deitsch, Emma González, David …
Wanderers from Sirius
… Dogs do figure mightily in Underdog, the fourth collection of poems by Katrina Roberts ’87. In … “Cave Canem,” for example, a meditation on, and reimagining of, the volcanic denouement that doomed Pompeii, the …
Issue: January-February 2012
Death Throes
… Fifty years ago , American support for the death penalty was as low as it has ever been: more … it. Violent crime in the country was low. The number of executions annually was a small fraction of the historical peak in the 1930s. These conditions set …
Issue: November-December 2016
Brevia
… Town and Gown The section on capital projects in the 2020 edition of Harvard’s annual “Town Gown Report” to the City of … of stock. Coursera was established as a for-profit enterprise; edX is a nonprofit consortium of member universities …
Issue: May-June 2021
Radcliffe Panel Focuses on Law and Social Change
… should laws merely respond to social change? Alumnae from the fields of journalism, academia, and, naturally, law took up this … to a law: Title IX, passed in 1972, forbade the exclusion of women from education programs and activities receiving …
Coming to Terms with Harvard’s History
… With Memorial Church closed for renovations , the venerable Morning Prayers service has relocated to … august venue in no way diminished the spirit and solemnity of the service. President Drew Faust, a self-identified … always seemed to me a rather noble endeavor so I was surprised when in 2007, after my appointment was announced, a …
Bacteria That Fight Malaria
… Harvard scientists have made a discovery that could lead the way to a new strategy for preventing malaria. … Researchers led by Flaminia Catteruccia , associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. …
"Launched into Eternity"
… Image courtesy of Harvard Law School Image courtesy of Harvard Law School True-crime fans, rejoice! A new … Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library” may be found at …
Issue: September-October 2008
We Can Do Better
… It’s official. The “surge” of unaccompanied minors from Central America is a … “temporary protection” to those fleeing humanitarian crises, recognizing the compassionate obligation to save …
Bacow on Biden’s Agenda, Harvard Policing
… In a flurry of activity just before Harvard begins its extended winter … more welcoming to international students and scholars after the Trump administration’s sweeping restrictions. … Separately, he also introduced the external review of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) …