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… Listings by category: Seasonal Theater Dance Nature and Science Libraries Exhibitions Dance … 8 p.m. To celebrate its 150th anniversary (see " 150 Years of Glee "), the Harvard Glee Club offers the world premiere of Dominick Argento’s Apollo in …
Issue: March-April 2008
Most Harvard Staff Will Be Remote through June 30
… Most of Harvard’s faculty and staff members will continue working … employees today. While Harvard has successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 on campus, Lapp wrote, “cases are rising in the …
Brevia
… Divinity School dean William A. Graham will step down at the end of this academic year, concluding a decade of service (he began serving as acting dean in January …
Issue: November-December 2011
Why I Opted for English
… to study psychology. I had worked in a neuroscience lab for the three previous summers, so applying what I had learned … as a child, and I had always enjoyed the relative peace of an essay compared to the time crunch of an exam. Still, pursuing a concentration where these …
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 …
Greener Buildings and Cities
… Given the recurrent campus exchanges on climate change and fossil-fuel divestment , the advent of a major Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has been remarkably quiet. Now that its …
Anti-Aging Approaches
… Decades of research have shown that calorie restriction extends … spiders, and various fish and rodents. In humans, though, the benefits of calorie restriction are still unproven, and probably less …
Issue: September-October 2017
Harvard Humor
… At year-end, Harvard people are popping up in summaries of 2010, occasionally in humorous ways. Among the newsmakers highlighted by The Onion, the online … her role as Solicitor General to become the newest member of the Supreme Court. In “ Elena Kagan—Trust Us, She Needed …
Making Global Local
… and concerts,” Barbara Bouquegneau, executive director of the French Library, said while leading a tour around the … There’s a new “Behind the Scenes” fashion series kicking off on November 16 with a cocktail reception, fashion show, …
Issue: November-December 2017
Personal History
… Adams University professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. ’53, LL.D. ’99, … remains a giant among early-American historians, and among the ranks of Harvard University citizens. Illuminating History: A …
Issue: March-April 2020
Two Tests Passed
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Heading into Saturday’s home game against the University of Massachusetts, the Harvard men’s basketball team had won 52 of the last 55 contests it had hosted at Lavietes Pavilion. …
Lessons in Surprise
… Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto , who led the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, was a … from 1919 to 1921. Seymour Morris Jr. ’68, M.B.A. ’72, of New York City, advances a theory that lessons Yamamoto … was more American than they were.” *** Green surprises. Gardens can surprise: often agreeably, as when a …
Issue: July-August 2010
Speciation Is More Complicated Than Darwin Could Have Imagined
… The diverse patterns of fiery reds, bright yellows, and iridescent blues on the wings of Heliconius butterflies warn predators away from the …
News Briefs
… Updates Boston authorities have approved construction of Harvard’s 9,000-square-foot, temporary “ArtLab” near the corner of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. The … the preliminary filing for the commercially oriented “enterprise research zone” (unveiled in December), outlines two …
Issue: March-April 2018
Radcliffe Roster
… With a dean appointed , planning for the Radcliffe Institute's intellectual agenda and programs … and by dean-elect Drew Faust, and announced the creation of an institute ad hoc advisory committee. Rudenstine said … "the Institute's simultaneous commitment to all fields of learning, and to the study of gender, women, and …