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“What Are You?”
… Most bluntly , the question was, "What are you?" Usually posed by a … me most. I dismissed the jibes from my young head in favor of more intriguing occupations, such as making the bathtub … take joyrides into Chicago from the 'burbs. But a new wave of ethnic insecurity washed over me as I fielded more …
Apollo 11, Up Close and Personal
… Fifty years after the first moon landing, it’s still hard to place the importance of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s initial lunar footsteps in the context of human history. There’s the feat itself, but also the …
Islamic Harmony
… In the catalog of the exhibition of Islamic art from the Calderwood collection, at the … collection to Harvard in 2002; some 150 objects from it comprise the current exhibition, In Harmony. The works include …
Issue: May-June 2013
Studying Schooling
… In 2006, Thomas Kane went to Joel Klein, chancellor of New York City’s public schools, with some unsettling news: teachers from the New York City Teaching Fellows program (which supplied … and kept in those students who changed schools. “To our surprise,” Peterson says, “the nonprofits did much worse than …
Issue: January-February 2009
Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2022-23 academic year. Jack Swanson, of Currier House, a government concentrator, will be the … de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College. Sorcha Ashe, of Kirkland House, an integrative biology concentrator, will …
Issue: July-August 2022
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
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
New Look for Lavietes
… Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion , built in the 1920s as an indoor-track center and converted to … demolished, expanding the building into 5,000 square feet of new space, yielding new team locker rooms and coaches’ offices. Fans will make use of a new entry, and will be …
Cambridge 02138
… weapons, it is an unrealistic prospect considering that the genie is out of the bottle. On top of that, despite their incredibly dangerous nature, humanity …
Issue: May-June 2014
Sports Wrap
… Lightweight Rowing The men’s varsity eight won the national championship at the … by just under a second and setting a course record of 5:33.059. The lights’ first national title since 2003 … behind Stanford and Bucknell, at the IRA regatta. Softball Harvard (35-15, 17-3 Ivy) repeated as Ivy champions, …
Issue: July-August 2012
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 …
What Crimson Means to Me
… would be easier to do so than listen to him badger me for the remainder of the year. I applied without visiting, and was surprised to receive a thick envelope the following spring. I …
Issue: July-August 2003
Giant Magellan Milestone
… In Tucson's late summer heat , under the steeply raked eastern stands of the University of Arizona Stadium (“Home of the Wildcats”), technicians at …
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
Urban Surprises
… Tucked away in a small stretch of grass near MIT’s campus, the art in University Park Common reveals itself slowly to … new construction reshaped the neighborhood. These small surprises make up Historical Traces (1998), by Boston-based …
Issue: November-December 2014