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The First Jubilee
… On November 29, 1998, with the papal bull Incarnationis Mysterium , Pope John Paul II officially declared the Great Jubilee of the year 2000. According to Catholic doctrine, believers …
Zakaria Shares Message of Hope in Commencement Speech
… Zakaria , Ph.D. '93, LL.D. ’12, painted an upbeat picture of today’s world in his Commencement address on May 24. In summing up the world graduates are entering, many speakers focus on … 40 years, the number of college graduates worldwide has risen fourfold for men and sevenfold for women. Furthermore, …
Advancing Fields of Knowledge
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) intellectual prowess … like her field of astronomy, and vice versa. While machines are much better at computation, “Humans are much … Fellowship for her 2012 book, Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures. “We’re ready for a new …
Staff Pick: Gold Rush Days
… T he 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched the dreams and journeys of thousands of people who migrated … and laborers, early mining technology, and the rapid rise of cities, like San Francisco, and smaller “wild West” …
Issue: May-June 2020
Bard in the Yard
… Recently, it was announced that a new copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, a collection of his plays published in 1623, was discovered on the Scottish isle of Bute. Fittingly, the Folio—one of just …
The Harvard Forest Dioramas
… Outside the Harvard Fisher Museum in Petersham, Massachusetts, nearly 4,000 acres of birch, oak, and maple trees grow among rivers, rocks, and the foundations of colonial homesteads in the Harvard Forest. Inside the …
Issue: May-June 2023
Circus Art
… Circus: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs illustrates the charms and thrills of this traveling entertainment during its heyday in Europe … in 1768; another would debut in Newport, Rhode Island. Each offered equestrian feats. As the phenomenon grew, especially …
Issue: January-February 2015
Finding the Movie
… Julian Breece ’03 remembers feeling haunted by a picture on the wall of his childhood home in Washington, D.C.—a photograph of Alvin Ailey, signed by the legendary choreographer …
Issue: May-June 2023
The 2014 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Off the Shelf
… Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual … As she demonstrated in Mother Nature , the author (professor of anthropology emerita at the University of …
Issue: May-June 2009
Off the Shelf
… The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes, Lea professor of the history … powerful political centralization, state-owned enterprises, or industrial policy. A timely and lucid guide. A …
Issue: May-June 2023
At Home with Harvard: Traveling for the Story
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … in 2004 , I entered the overnight lives of astronomers, who rise for breakfast at 6 p.m., observe all night, return to …
The Strategic Context: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
… An interview with Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University Professor, and Jan W. Rivkin, Rauner professor of business … administration and head of HBS’s strategy unit. Read the complete article, Can America Compete? … GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company …
Issue: September-October 2012
Planting Seeds of Culture
… set out on an ambitious journey to photograph members of every Native American tribe in the United States, with the hope of shedding light on the lives and experiences of Native …
The Challenges of Greener Cities
… The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CBGC) … and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design, ranging from why holistic … as well as their carbon footprint,” he said. “To my surprise, that’s only about a third of what we are responsible …