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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 …
Home Ground
… Simon and I are sitting in the Lowell House dining hall. It is "Mexican Fiesta" night … once a week." On a Friday afternoon at one, I race out of history class and head toward Garden Street to meet my … is late. Finally I spot the blue station wagon. I hop out of the space and into the car while she parks; we kiss …
What Stress Reveals
… Evolution, the fossil record shows, sometimes proceeds in sudden leaps. Millions of years of stasis can end abruptly with multiple changes in forms …
Issue: July-August 2008
Chapter & Verse
… Jaquay recalls her parents joking about a quip made during the lengthy negotiations in Paris to end the Vietnam War. The delegates quibbled about everything from the shape of the table to the refreshments, and a humorist suggested … and specify what was said. Ken Agran seeks the source of “She burned too bright [or “brightly”] for this world.” …
Issue: July-August 2018
Industrial Origins
… On May 13 , the Watch City Steampunk Festival takes over downtown … edge, like Frenchy and the Punk. There will also be loads of artists with an industrial bent, like Waltham’s Todd Cahill, along with vendors offering “steampunk” clothing, accessories, and …
Issue: May-June 2017
“A Melodic Being”
… “The drums are calling out your name,” Ali Sethi ’06 exhorted … Theatre, as he and his bandmates wound toward the climax of the night’s final number, a song with roots stretching … Some listeners were already on their feet, and a handful of students were dancing on stage. Behind Sethi, the tabla …
Issue: November-December 2019
Commencement Confetti
… Class Honorand John P. “Jack” Reardon, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association since 1990 (and earlier, in a … to commission a formal portrait. When they sprang the surprise on Reardon at a formal class gathering on Monday …
Issue: July-August 2010
Improvisational Prodigy
… The epiphany came early. Until middle school, Malcolm … jazz today,” Campbell says. In fact, he’s playing a lot of jazz today, and playing it rather well. The Malcolm … day--and those hours fall inside the curriculum. He is part of the third class to enroll in a five-year, joint …
Issue: July-August 2009
Fiction in Counterpoint
… In 2005, while waiting to pay in the Bob Slate stationery store in Harvard Square, Thomas P. … later, the doodling has evolved into Wolf’s first work of fiction, the recent novel Sound, published under the pen … on radios (especially hip-hop), play-by-play broadcasts of New York Yankees baseball games, and characters’ unspoken …
Issue: September-October 2012
For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean"
… Neil L. Rudenstine. Photo by Marc Halevi/Harvard News Office From the moment Harvard University and Radcliffe College … would merge and form the Radcliffe Institute, the identity of the institute's first dean became a paramount …
Town-Hall Meetings Report on Harvard Library Reorganization
… The changing information landscape makes change at Harvard … preeminent academic research library—inevitable. As part of the Harvard Library’s ongoing transition to a new … on Thursday, January 19. (The Library has released an official transcript of the presentation .) In their …
Not Holding Out for a Hero
… Cliff Chiang ’96 can still name the first four comics he ever read— Uncanny X-Men, Alpha … Flight, Cloak & Dagger, and Fantastic Four —the adventures of caped crusaders and mutant teens which, in the summer of 1983, he pored over in the back seat on a family road …
Issue: September-October 2015
Doing His Work
… magna cum laude with a degree in history and literature. He then obtained a master's degree at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and published his first book in 1999, a memoir … from 1999 to 2002. The late Philippe Wamba Courtesy of the Wamba family His family, friends, and classmates have …
Issue: November-December 2004
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
… The director of The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, professor of neurology S. Allen Counter, and Laura Kasischke, …
Likenesses
… Peach state dispatch. W. Todd Groce, president and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society , writes: I recently made an … But it is what I discovered about Cabot that totally surprised me. Photograph courtesy of W. Todd Groce Charles …
Issue: November-December 2020