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Reform School
… The decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century have been called the Gilded Age, the Age of Innocence, the Age of Excess, the Progressive Era, and …
Issue: September-October 2012
Weekend Rock Stars
… In August 2012, Jocelyn Arndt ’17 and her brother, Chris ’18, played a rock concert in front of approximately six people—including their parents and a couple of hot-dog vendors. The performance was set to be one of the …
Issue: May-June 2019
Lake Water
… in October. I am sitting on a wooden bench, looking out At the lake through a tall screen of evergreens, Or rather, looking out across the plane of the lake, Seeing the light shaking upon the water As if …
Harvard and MIT Form Online-Education Venture
… Drew Faust and Susan Hockfield today announced EdX , a nonprofit joint venture that will offer online courses to the general public while investigating technologies for … (FAS) at Harvard , emphasized that EdX was not an enterprise for automating campus-based courses and disseminating …
Sasha
… When Sasha joined Harvard’s staff in August 2022, she became the first non-human to receive a University ID. The Labrador … recently graduated from Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit that trains incarcerated people to raise service dogs for veterans and first responders. University Police Officer Steven Fumicello spent two weeks at a prison …
Issue: May-June 2024
Joanna Aizenberg
… When Joanna Aizenberg looks at the skeleton of a sea sponge lying on her desk, she sees … 1,000 times smaller.” Aizenberg, who is Gordon McKay professor of materials science and Susan S. and Kenneth L. …
Issue: July-August 2008
GSAS Celebrates Harvard Horizons Scholars
… Eight rapid-fire, TED-style talks of five minutes each by Harvard Ph.D. students kicked off the inaugural Harvard Horizons symposium on May 6 in Sanders …
Should Convicted Felons Serve on Juries?
… be allowed to serve on juries, sitting in judgment on their fellow citizens? On June 2, Premal Dharia, inaugural director of Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, … goes back to slavery, it goes back to when juries were comprised of all white men in order to convict black men.” …
No Such Thing as Just a Janitor
… It was Richard Montañez’s many jokes, and the audience’s appreciative, rolling laughter, that made the … Sanders Theatre stage—came deeper, quieter acknowledgements of pain and fear and vulnerability that sharpened the air … Cheetos, the spicy, startlingly red, cult-favorite version of the classic cheesy snack. He is now the executive in …
Bill Jaeger
… with a degree in Russian studies, he planned to work at the Russian Research Center and then go to graduate school. But with workers in his office and across Harvard unionizing,he was drawn in.“I saw … now live in Arlington, where he enjoys watching European professional soccer with their two sons and plays …
Issue: July-August 2013
Does Journalism Still Have a Future?
… Sanders Theatre was more than packed to the brim Tuesday afternoon. The line of students waiting to get into “The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era,” sponsored by …
“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
A Warm Spot
… It’s not immediately clear why Catalyst is so named. The word denotes a strong force effecting root-level, … very good, is not transforming the epicurean landscape of the neighborhood, itself an epicenter of global technology. Chef/owner William Kovel, a New …
Issue: November-December 2013
Learning by Degrees
… The image is grim : “binge and purge” learning. It’s what … and then spit it back on the exam (purge). This mode of study doesn’t seem to produce durable learning. During the past four years, associate professor of surgery B. Price Kerfoot, M.D. ’96, Ed.M. ’00, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Football 2021: Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
… Halloween weekend was an appropriate time for the Harvard football team to continue its two-season Danse Macabre of close and excruciating defeat. This time, at least, the … Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens. “When you get into the meat of our schedule, it’s the thinnest of margins,” said Murphy …