Search
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
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 …
Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine
… Harvard Medical School professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun , Ph.D. ’82, has been named co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Victor … very distinct characteristics. How do these differences arise? The answer lies in gene regulation, which allows each …
Women in Science, and at Harvard
… from science majors to non-science majors at a rate of...54 percent compared to...39 percent for men. This … school and postdoctoral work. " ~ National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science Against this backdrop, the undergraduate …
Janet Browne
… University College London a year ago to become Aramont professor of the history of science, she first lived in Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2007
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
Football: Harvard 32, Brown 22
… If one measure of a good football team is being able to win tough conference games on the road, then the 2016 edition of the Harvard Crimson took a step toward being a good …
Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn
… Harvard’s lead piano technician Mariana Quinn, who oversees the maintenance of the University’s more than 200 pianos. Although her … Her first six months as a technician, she tuned the pianos of her father’s former clients—the last ones he ever …
Issue: July-August 2022
“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
China’s Excess Wind Energy
… There’s a problem with sustainable energy, and it will only … time. Now that wind and solar have become cheaper sources of electricity than fossil fuels in some places, the problem … can alleviate some intermittency problems, but Butler professor of environmental studies Michael McElroy believes …
Issue: November-December 2021
Bloodless Brain Surgery
… The scientist behind focused ultrasound (FUS), the most noninvasive treatment of all, is a medical physicist from Finland. Kullervo Hynynen (pronounced HIN - i-nin ), associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, began …
Underpinning Public Service
… The University today announced a $15-million gift, from Eric … in Engaged Scholarship, which will underwrite development of the public-service components of more than a dozen new College courses, and the Mindich …
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
“A 500-Year Building”
… When Matt Noblett, a partner in the architecture firm Behnisch Architekten, started working … focused research facility in Allston in 2007, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—many of whose faculty … plant that will also provide power to the nearby enterprise research campus under development) is expected to earn …
Issue: January-February 2021
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, …