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Faculty Honored for Teaching and Advising
… At the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, dean Michael D. Smith announced the following annual recognitions for teaching, advising, and mentoring. Harvard College Professors Recipients of FAS’s highest honor for faculty …
Events
… SPECIAL. November 18 marks the day of The Game in Cambridge. Kick-off is at 12:30 p.m. A multitude of parties and reunions are …
Taxonomic Riddles
… to a trained zoologist, one earthworm looks very much like the next. So much so, in fact, that one species generally … “wild caught,” according to its record in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) specimen database, MCZbase. … caliginosa, a common species, was collected in the vicinity of 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge, where the museum is …
Issue: July-August 2015
Chapter & Verse
… Burton Caine asks who said, “If the result is absurd, it impeaches the logic upon which it … Judith Stix hopes to learn the title and author of a children’s book that ends, she recalls: “And that’s how … McGinnis wonders if anyone has traced the original source of a remark attributed to Mark Hanna: “There are two things …
Issue: January-February 2012
Harvard Magazine Celebrates 20 Years Online
… The May-June 1996 issue was the first to be posted online. … full issue online, for May-June 1996, which featured a profile of legendary crew coach Harry Parker. News subjects then …
Complicated Choices: Preventing HIV's Spread
… What if women could take a pill to decrease the chance of infection during sex with an HIV-positive … to the virus—became possible recently with the development of drugs that are more effective and have fewer severe side …
“Seeking Strange Flowers”
… As tales of adventure go , his had it all: treacherous passages … tribal princes; and religious rituals virtually unknown to the outside world. In 1924, Harvard dispatched Joseph … hunt through China’s southwestern provinces—the Wild West of their day. But gold and silver weren’t his mandate: Rock, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Sports in Brief
… through what a Boston Globe headline deemed a “season of redemption,” the men’s hockey team in late March, for the first time in … 1993, close out the regular season with an unbroken string of wins and a share of the conference title, and then …
Issue: May-June 2017
Delicious Science
… Joan and Jordi Roca know how to put on a show, even when their stage is a Harvard lecture hall. As their audience on … that diners could actually smoke, Jordi poured a container of liquid nitrogen into a metal bowl. As the cauldron … said Jordi, who is the chef/owner, along with his brother, of el Celler de Can Roca , currently ranked the number-two …
Harvard Art Allies
… Hammond ’25, Litt.D. ’94 In 1943, Hammond—later Pope professor of the Latin language and literature and unofficial Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard Arts and Sciences 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 …
Issue: July-August 2021
A Championship—and Seasons Cut Short
… A fter College administrators informed students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, Harvard … days later, the NCAA canceled them, too. An initial lack of clarity from the University frustrated athletes who were …
Issue: May-June 2020
Curious Colors
… necktie is crimson emblazoned with one’s class numerals and often the shield of the University. On the lookout for—and spotting—deviant …
Issue: November-December 2009
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Road Games
… Harvard men’s basketball players and staff lingered on the floor at Levien Gymnasium, seemingly shell-shocked over … shoulder the load singlehandedly. For the first 30 minutes of Saturday night’s game against Cornell in Ithaca, it … Big Red hit seven three-pointers in the first eight minutes of the contest to jump out to a 27-10 lead—an advantage that …
Students in Africa
… With this issue, Harvard Magazine brings you the stories of 10 student projects in Africa . Visit an … HIV prevention and sexual health in Tanzania, the subject of research by Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10. In Ghana, learn how a …
Issue: November-December 2009