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Ice Water and Rockets
… Last fall , the Ivy League women’s soccer championship was decided in the final seconds of the season’s last game. Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia … overtime periods unfolded, although Harvard was dominating offensively, outshooting Columbia, 9-2. Then, with a mere …
Issue: September-October 2009
Alan Jenkins
… Harvard Law School professor of practice Alan Jenkins ’85, J.D. ’89, first mentions his … quickly moves on to his grandparents’. One pair moved to the United States from the Bahamas, the other from Georgia …
Issue: March-April 2020
Lives in Art
… They were called to meals by a Grand Banks schooner’s … this,” said Warren “Renny” Little ’55 during a recent tour of his family’s summer retreat, an eighteenth-century … the stuff,” he said—his parents’ pioneering collection of American folk art and antiques that still crowd the …
Issue: July-August 2014
Staff Pick: Boston Book Festival
… This year, instead of drawing 30,000 people for a wild weekend of in-person literary immersion, the annual Boston Book Festival will spread mostly online …
Issue: September-October 2020
A "Hillary" from Harvard
… looks like Hillary Clinton," remarked several spouses at the class of 1985's fifteenth reunion in June. The '85ers themselves … startling indeed, enabling Dallin, an actress, to begin a professional sideline as a lookalike for the First Lady. Even …
Stealthy Attitudes
… ourselves about our prejudices, stereotypes, racial profiles, and ingrained biases. Mahzarin Banaji, Cabot professor of social ethics in the department of psychology and Pforzheimer professor at …
Issue: July-August 2002
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
… Most American kids have probably never heard of Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King —a fantasy tale of good and evil, … English are. “On the children’s side,” he adds, “I’d be surprised if it was 1 percent.” Freudenheim’s road to this …
Issue: November-December 2015
Commencement Confetti
… Techno-Human Interface The Commencement exercises were broadcast this year on five … and the Old Yard. Subtitles scroll across the bottom of each as speakers talk, but the captioning—keyed in by a … Drew Faust was in line to get one—from the University of Oxford, on June 20. And as Harvard recognized one Yale …
Issue: July-August 2012
Harvard Art Museums Appoint Ethan Lasser Curator
… Ethan Lasser will join the Harvard Art Museums’ division of European and American art as Winthrop associate curator of American art, effective September 18, the University has …
Stubborn Theorems
… find a bustling television crew chatting with a prominent mathematics scholar. The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI), a … novelty, though board members say it's the only institute of its kind. Rather, the attention stems from an intriguing contest: CMI has offered $1 million rewards for the solutions to seven …
Hoopes Hoopla
… Just what is on undergraduates' minds-- other than that? Four shelves in the entry hall of Lamont Library, just beyond the circulation desk, give some idea. There reside bound copies of theses awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for "excellence …
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Carr-Stewart John S. Higgins Jr. Barbara Long Lidija Ortloff Maria Patterson Nicholas C. Taylor Seven alumni are to … Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. … any of his candidates would be admitted, Bowie was surprised when his first one got in. From that moment, he “was …
Issue: September-October 2009
Combatants
… On the morning of July 21, 1918, a German submarine surfaced three miles off Nauset Beach in Orleans, on Cape Cod, and attacked an unarmed tugboat towing four barges. Shells from the sub’s deck guns sank three of the barges and set the tug …
Issue: November-December 2014
New Ancient Sculpture
… From the windows in his studio, sculptor James Dinerstein ’69 can … and heft. Beckoning (2008), for example, near the back of the room, gestures dramatically in three or four … its pale, ghostly form composed almost entirely of concrete. An older piece, Solitary Figure (1995), cast in …
Issue: May-June 2010
Harvard Commencement 2018
… Kappa Exercises, at 11, with poet Kevin Young ’92, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the … Neil Shubin, Ph.D. ’87, a paleontologist who is Bensley professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University …
Issue: May-June 2018