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Respecting the Future
… I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when … in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh off the tractor, with a farmer's tan and a head full of Republican idealism, I fancied myself quite the moral …
Issue: July-August 2003
Conant in the Blow
… with passers-by." Seventy years ago, on September 21, came the New England Hurricane of 1938: a.k.a. the Long Island Express, owing to the … of Massachusetts, Amherst. Presented a basket of surprise ingredients, the competitors had 40 minutes to plan a …
Issue: September-October 2008
Graduate School of Education
… Dean Kathleen McCartney will speak at the convocation ceremony on Wednesday, May 26, at 3 p.m. in Radcliffe Yard. Visit the Graduate School of Education website . … Dean Kathleen McCartney will speak at the May 26 convocation ceremony. … Graduate School of Education - Commencement & Reunion 2010 … Graduate School …
World Premiere of esperanza spalding and Wayne Shorter’s Opera, (Iphigenia)
… Wayne Shorter, the 88-year-old, 11-time Grammy-winning saxophonist … Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston, Shorter and Harvard professor of the practice of music esperanza spalding (who does not …
Pamelyn Bennett
… When Pamelyn Bennett began working at the National Airport Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C., … she “decided to make a few phone calls and get a little bit of help for them,” arranging a driver and providing … Born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, she spent much of her childhood at Temple Beth Shalom, where her mother …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Undergraduate Through the Years
… This magazine's "Undergraduate" column provides snapshots of contemporary student life. Some columns capture a moment in time; others demonstrate how the more things change, the more they … celebrates its 375th anniversary, we bring you a selection of columns from the last 25 years. In 1986, Claudia Polsky …
Issue: September-October 2011
Taking the Plunge
… M cArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson, a leading voice on climate change, teaches “Reimagining Capitalism” at the Business School: an immersion in “business and big … has synthesized her ideas about the role of private enterprises in solving them (in their own interest), in …
Issue: May-June 2020
Getting Close to the Past
… an important and timely book about race in America. But How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is also a book about education: … instructor when he first felt compelled to investigate the often-obscured or distorted truths of American slavery and …
Issue: November-December 2021
A Landscape Architect's Outdoor Artwork
… Science and art were tangled up together for Todd Gilens, M.L.A. ’02, ever since the childhood … afternoons he spent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “My father had an office nearby,” Gilens recalls, … machinery on private forest land,” he recalls. “These giant machines would cut down a tree, turn it sideways, strip off …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard College Admits Class of 2027
… H arvard College today offered regular admission to 1,220 applicants to the class of 2027; combined with the 722 early-action applicants …
Twitters, Titters, and The Onion
… You’re saying , “Not another one of these techno-geeky black guys with political … ( baratunde.com/blog ) has a job that taps his triad of passions: since 2007, he’s been Web and political editor …
Issue: September-October 2009
Differences of Opinion on Online Courses
… build and launch massive open online courses (MOOCs)—and other would-be contenders approach the field—evidence and … about how best to use such courses, the experience of learning this way, and possible applications of the … are a great unequalizer when it comes to teachers,” giving rise to a list of online celebrity professors who come to …
Colonies of Clay
… Full of some unknowable purpose, a little clay monster gesticulates from the kitchen countertop. Slightly damp, it resembles a newly … desert planet. While a small kiln hums in the background of his Cambridge apartment, Christopher Adams ’94 smiles …
Issue: July-August 2015
Squirrely
… In the beginning , before there were squirrels in Harvard Yard, … absent from American cities. The present ubiquity of the arboreal rodents, who often seem to enchant … the twentieth century, as laboring animals were replaced by machines and dairy, meat, and egg production and processing …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… The Ethics of Invention , by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer … Reiter ’03 (Yale, $32.50), an in-depth examination of the rise of solitary confinement by a young scholar at the … fluidity of gender and racial identities took him by surprise, leading to an exploration of “the possibilities for …
Issue: January-February 2017