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Delicious Minimalism
… oils, farmers’ market produce.” Three times a year, Katzen, the celebrated author of more than a dozen cookbooks of vegetarian cuisine, travels from her home in Berkeley, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2021-2022 Fellows
… After a year when the pandemic kept its fellows from convening on campus, the … Advanced Study (RIAS) today unveils its 2021-2022 cohort of fellows: 52 scholars, artists, and others who will, … Rebecca Bassett , a graduate student in the Graduate School of Education; Caroline Buckee, associate professor of …
Yesterday's News
… 1935 After the Harvard Athletic Association asks alumni to help underwrite the cost of American participation in the coming Berlin Olympics, … condemning this endorsement as “contrary to our ideals of fair play and equality for all….Our traditions demand …
Issue: July-August 2010
Iconic Library Embraces Digital Era
… What should a home for old books look like in a digital age? The Harvard Library has grappled with this issue (see “ Gutenberg 2.0 ”). Now, the University of Oxford has unveiled its attempt to answer that question in the form of the Weston Library, its new facility for reading, …
Injury and Beauty
… Scarry is teaching two courses: a purely literary class on the three Brontë sisters, and “The Problem of Consent,” drawing examples from literature, medicine, … she says, her work has focused on two areas: “the problem of injury, and why it is so hard to get people to care about …
Issue: March-April 2014
Thirty-two Students Removed from Harvard Housing during Fall Semester
… The Harvard Community Council announced today that during … on-campus housing. The council, a non-disciplinary body of College students, staff, and faculty members, received reports of 251 potential violations, with some students cited for …
Brevia
… collections—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger— come together for the first time in the Harvard Art Museum exhibit … (top), curators have found opportunity in juxtapositions of art from distant cultural traditions. The influence of Classical works on representations of the human body can …
Issue: November-December 2008
At Home with Harvard: Nature Walks
… This is the fifth installment in Harvard Magazine’ s new series, “At … the movies , Harvard’s literary scene , and the resources of Harvard’s many museums . Isolation doesn’t mean we have … and biking, even while social distancing. A woodsy view of the High Service Reservoir Photograph by Mike Ryan I …
“Almost a Card-Carrying Chemist”
… willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries. Phillips professor of astronomy Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative (see “ Life’s …
Issue: July-August 2019
Harvard Basketball's Unlikely MVP
… In the summer of 2017, men’s basketball assistant coach Brian … He looked up to see Justin Bassey ’20 smiling back at him. The encounter was pure coincidence—Eskildsen’s vacation with … coach Tommy Amaker prizes in perimeter defenders. The son of Thai and Nigerian immigrants, Bassey also had straight As …
Hot Pursuit
… Matthew Berlin ’89, a jazz and blues bassist who also knocks … it and played bass; the album is a collaboration with two of his oldest friends and bandmates: singer Samoa Wilson and … album takes its title, and its inspiration, from the music of swing pianist Teddy Wilson (no relation to Samoa), who …
Issue: March-April 2020
Harvard and Latin America
… and Europe, President Drew Faust is extending her tour of the Crimson Commonwealth to Latin America, with a … trip to Chile and Brazil. University officials traveling with her have posted a dispatch from …
More than Skin Deep
… Lockwood Heffernan ’02, Ph.D. ’07, lived out any new mother’s dream: she spent a few days at The Spa at Norwich Inn. There, in the depth of New England’s snowy January, she swam in a warm, … with a pedicure.” Meanwhile, her husband took advantage of the fitness center and reveled in a back massage. “There …
Issue: March-April 2014
A Senior Makes It Back to Campus
… The first time I moved to Harvard, I stuffed my suitcases … knew I’d never need: glittery lanyards, quill pens, a pack of Big League Chew bubblegum I’d been gifted by a friend as part of a Boston-themed high-school graduation present. My mother …
Old Lampooner
… Thackeray ranked second only to Charles Dickens in the English literary pantheon. Now he is mostly ignored except as the author of the novel Vanity Fair, in which he skewered large segments of British society with cheerful humor and hatched an …
Issue: May-June 2014