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… Seasonal The Game www.gocrimson.com • November 21 at noon: The 126th … 1 through November 30: Forever Young: The Amazing Grace of Folk Music History in Harvard Square features various … further details. • November 28 at 4 p.m. Sparklefest Kick-Off! The annual Holiday Tree Lighting at the Charles Hotel. …
Issue: November-December 2009
Welcome, Fellows
… Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year will be Spencer Lenfield ’12 and Melanie Long ’10, who were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by more than two dozen applicants for … write news and feature items, and edit copy. Lenfield, of Paw Paw, Michigan (near Kalamazoo), will live in Eliot …
Issue: September-October 2009
Debt Reliever
… During his last two years of college, Rohan Pavuluri ’18 rode the bus from Boston to New York and back every other … or friends. He was en route to work on Upsolve , the nonprofit startup that he co-founded in 2016. Upsolve has since …
Issue: September-October 2019
Spring Sports
… Track and Field After a season of big wins and broken records, Harvard’s track and field team sent three women to the NCAA championships in Eugene, Oregon, as this issue went … first time in program history, a “triple crown”: a sweep of all three titles in cross country, indoor track, and …
Issue: July-August 2017
So That Others May Follow...
… Imagine some two hundred middle school students, their eyes wide with a blend of delight and awe, gazing up through the magnificent glass ceiling of the newly renovated Harvard Art Museums. In April, I had …
Issue: July-August 2015
Lowell House to Be Renewed
… The University will begin renovating Lowell House in the summer of 2017, its third massive project in a $1-billion-plus … —appointed in 2008 “to examine the mission and purpose of House life and to develop an architectural space plan for …
Lights, Camera... Egyptology!
… Der Manuelian, wants students in his “Pyramid Schemes: The Archaeological History of Ancient Egypt” course (discussed in an article on innovative uses of digital technology in the humanities ) to get a bit more …
Adams House Will Be Renewed after Lowell
… Adams House will be the sixth undergraduate residence to be renewed, House … in an email today. The renewal, like the renovations of other undergraduate Houses, will make Adams … on the current renewal schedule, some uncertainty may have arisen about future projects. The extended calendar for the …
Sweet Finale
… Once I knew an architect-in-training who dreamed of moving to Seattle and opening a restaurant devoted entirely to desserts. If only he had attended the Harvard Business School, like M.B.A. ’97 classmates Paul … is the country’s only upscale dessert restaurant. Finale offers deluxe treats for those without the wish—or the …
One Faculty Member, Three Alumni Win MacArthurs
… The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation conferred … as “genius grants”) yesterday. The 21 recipients include professor of mathematics Jacob Lurie and Jennifer Eberhardt, Ph.D. …
Brevia
… Cellist Celebrated The tenth annual Harvard Arts Medal will be conferred on … repertory to his ongoing Silk Road project, were profiled in this magazine's March-April 2000 issue ("Yo-Yo … it! Now the Crimson can truly be crimson. Taking advantage of new presses, the newspaper debuted color printing on the …
Issue: March-April 2004
An Empiricist on Art
… Prisoners rehearse and perform The Tempest behind walls. People reportedly queued on the … docks in 1841 awaiting the ship bearing the final chapter of Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop to find out Little … do these examples—arrayed by Boston College psychology professor Ellen Winner ’69, Ph.D. ’78, RI ’99—have in common, …
Issue: March-April 2019
James E. Rothman, Ph.D. ’76, Shares Nobel Prize for Medicine
… James E. Rothman , Ph. D. '76 —now Wallace professor of biomedical sciences at Yale, chair of the medical school's department of cell biology, and …
Tibetan Literature, Digitized
… to upload onto its digital storage system 10 million pages of Tibetan literature that survived China’s convulsive Cultural Revolution, the movement between 1966 and 1976 that led to the … Despite all the political tensions that have arisen concerning China’s governance of the Tibetan region …
Issue: September-October 2014
Exploring New Frontiers
… like a perfect opportunity to work, play, and travel all at the same time. So in 2000, they signed up for temporary jobs … there, we were able to immerse ourselves in the life" of the country, says Stein, of New Jersey. "There was no language barrier, and the work …
Issue: September-October 2003