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Martha Whitehead Appointed Harvard Librarian
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 Log-In | Register Search form Search Articles News more News Photograph by Harvard Magazine/LG Fossil-fuel and prison divestment activists interrupt a discussion on economic inequality. 4.5.19 Research more Research Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Excavating 1968
“I’ve had many, many strange emails since publishing my book on Bob Dylan,” classicist Richard Thomas was telling a sold-out crowd at the Brattle Theater last Wednesday evening, before the lights dimmed for the premiere screening of Underground 68—a film that emerged from one of those strange emails. After Thomas’s Why Bob Dylan Matters appeared in 2017, filmmaker Peter Coonradt ’68 got in touch.
Harvard Basketball's Unlikely MVP
In the summer of 2017, men’s basketball assistant coach Brian Eskildsen was on vacation in Rome, eating a gelato, when he heard someone shout, “Eski?” He looked up to see Justin Bassey ’20 smiling back at him. The encounter was pure coincidence—Eskildsen’s vacation with his fiancée had landed him on the same street where Bassey was sightseeing with his family—but it was also strangely familiar.
College Admits 4.5 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2023
The College has admitted 1,950 of 43,330 applicants to the class of 2023 (935 of whom were admitted through early actionin December). The 4.5 percent admit rate is Harvard’s lowest ever, down slightly from 4.6 percent last year; it reflects the largest number of applicants in the College’s history. First-generation college students represent 16.4 percent of the admitted class, down slightly from 17.3 percent last year, when the College admitted its highest share of low-income students.
Professionalization in the academy
On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal Bass professor of English Louis Menand is a literary critic and intellectual and cultural historian—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.
Harvard Corporation Elects Barakett and Cuéllar
Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, effective July 1, the University announced this morning. They succeed Berkeley computer-science professor emerita Susan L. Graham ’64 and Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67, former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who were elected in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open
Harvard’s new, $12.5-million ArtLab, envisioned as an interdisciplinary center for creativity and innovation on the University’s Allston campus, is undergoing “final preparation” to begin hosting activities in the next several months, according to a University statement today.
Protesters Disrupt the President
Kennedy School dean Douglas Elmendorf seemed to anticipate what was coming Thursday evening as he introduced an Institute of Politics event featuring President Lawrence S. Bacow. Standing onstage at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Elmendorf exhorted those in attendance, to be “respectful audience members,” to “listen, think, and learn” and to save their comments until after the talk.
Harvard students’ personal speeches build community and communication skills
Every year around Valentine’s Day, traffic on the Lowell House Speeches Project’s Vimeo page spikes. The first time this happened was the night of February 13, 2011, just after Meghan Cleary ’11, L ’16—then a Lowell House senior—gave the eighteenth Lowell Speech. Cleary spoke of being at pre-season cross-country training, a few weeks before the start of her freshman year, when her dad suffered a cardiac arrest.
Harvard course requirements quantitative reasoning
Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum, debuting this coming fall semester, a final piece of the puzzle remains.
Harvard College course shopping period
Harvard College students’ cherished “shopping week”—for sampling classes at the start of each term before registering formally—may not have nine lives, but it has attained at least a second or third—albeit with a possibly significant modification.
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STEM-CELL RESEARCH Poor Jack, or is it Jill, pictured sitting atop a needle on the cover of your July-August issue ("Stem-Cell Science," by Jonathan Shaw, page 36). Jack or Jill has no chance of surviving, has he/she? Let's hope his/her murderers come to swift justice. Embryonic stem cells, being pluripotent and as treated in the unnatural environment of a laboratory, give rise not so much to bright prospects as to terrifying risks.
College Admits 4.5 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2023
The College has admitted 1,950 of 43,330 applicants to the class of 2023 (935 of whom were admitted through early actionin December). The 4.5 percent admit rate is Harvard’s lowest ever, down slightly from 4.6 percent last year; it reflects the largest number of applicants in the College’s history. First-generation college students represent 16.4 percent of the admitted class, down slightly from 17.3 percent last year, when the College admitted its highest share of low-income students.
Harvard Lowell House changes portraits display
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, the University’s president from 1909 to 1933, looms large in Harvard history, repeatedly championing academic freedom and helping to create the undergraduate House system. “Less heroic was Lowell’s role in two disputes that became public in 1922,” wrote John Bethell, former editor of Harvard Magazine, in Harvard Observed, his history of the institution during the twentieth century.
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
In the spring of 2012, Brown University hosted an extraordinary academic conference. “Being Nobody?” honored the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson, Harvard’s Cowles professor of sociology. Giving a birthday party for a scholarly book is a rarity in itself. Even more unusual, the symposium’s 11 presenters were not sociologists.
Replacement of Iberian Men 4,000 Years Ago Raises Fresh Questions
What secrets do the ear bones of long-dead skeletons hold? Not ancient stories or sounds, but DNA. Genetic material from these human remains provides the basis for a new history of Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal), published today in Science by an international team of researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona.
American Repertory Theater Moving to Harvard’s Allston Properties
The Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theater (ART), now based in the Loeb Drama Center, which opened on Brattle Street in Cambridge in 1960, will relocate to a new home in Allston—a move catalyzed by a $100-million gift from David E. Goel ’93 and Stacey L. Goel, the University announced today.
Harvard Adams House Renewal
During a forum with Adams House residents on February 19, Nathaniel Rogers ’05, a project architect from Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB), reviewed the plans drawn to date for the three-phase renewal of the 450-student residence, beginning this summer (when work on Lowell House, shown here, will conclude) and scheduled for completion and final occupancy by August 2023.
Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji
In 2015, inspiration struck Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 like an apple from Newton’s tree. In her case, though, it was a dumpling. Lee and her friend Yiying Lu were texting about upcoming dinner plans. Lee sent over a picture of dumplings, and Lu went to her iPhone’s emoji keyboard to send back a dumpling emoji—a miniature digital icon. None existed. For most people, this kind of omission would inspire minor annoyance but little, if any, action.
Howardena Pindell at Rose Art Museum
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 Log-In | Register Search form Search Articles News more News Photograph by Harvard Magazine/LG Fossil-fuel and prison divestment activists interrupt a discussion on economic inequality. 4.5.19 Research more Research Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Technology’s role in the origins of marriage
“All the decisions we make in our most intimate lives…about who to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, and how to think about love, romance, and families, are driven, and always have been driven, by technology,” contends Debora Spar.
Princeton Preps
Prep schooled. The best training to become a Harvard dean? A Princeton undergraduate education. Or so this evidence, published in the November 7, 2018, issue of our peer magazine, Princeton Alumni Weekly, strongly suggests. Upstaging John Harvard (and, like all Tigers, stoic—or heedless—in face of sartorial criticism), are Michelle Williams, Princeton ’84, public health; Douglas Elmendorf ’83, government; Bridget Terry Long ’95, education; and Francis Doyle III ’85, engineering and applied sciences.
Samuel Stouffer
During world war ii, when Samuel Stouffer led the research branch of the U.S. Army’s information and education division, the hundreds of surveys he directed on the attitudes of American soldiers were radical innovations. Despite the strong support of his boss, General Frederick Osborn, who knew FDR personally and had other social connections useful for bureaucratic leverage, the research branch endured a precarious status.
Harvard Portrait: Amy Wagers
News more News Photograph by Harvard Magazine/LG Fossil-fuel and prison divestment activists interrupt a discussion on economic inequality. 4.5.19 Research more Research Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain. Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Mass Audubon’s early spring events
The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge stretches along the coast of Plum Island, near Newburyport. In addition to prime beach and walking territory for humans, the 4,700 acres provide diverse habitats, from dunes and mudflats to marshlands, that are especially important for birds. Mass Audubon’s nearby Joppa Flats Education Center holds events and excursions that explore these precious ecosystems, including “Falconry & A Raptor Road Trip,” on March 16.
Mark Dery on Edward Gorey, reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A very small boy, only his eyes and forehead visible, stares out of an enormous, tall window three panes across. The tip of a single bare tree branch, which he does not see, stretches down toward him from the top left. It may be raining, though the fine vertical cross-hatching makes it hard to tell.
Vietnamese cuisine in Boston
It’s lunchtime in Harvard Square, and Le’s Restaurant is packed. Diners slurp steaming beef noodle soup (tái nam pho) and dig into grilled shrimp and pork and vermicelli (bún tôm thit) laced with nước mắm, a limey fish-sauce vinaigrette. At a window table, Duong Huynh and Vinh Le (no relation to Le’s owners) peruse the menu. As the duo behind Nem, a local Vietnamese food venture that offers culinary classes and pop-up dinners, they are, naturally, choosy.
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
Scientific knowledge is supposed to be built piecewise—study by study, experiment by experiment—so that each new piece of knowledge rests on a firm foundation of preceding work. Discovering that influential pieces of research cannot, in fact, be replicated by other researchers in other labs is akin to discovering a foundation riddled with holes, but that’s exactly what has happened in the last few decades, in fields from chemistry to psychology.
Harvard renames art film department
Harvard’s department of visual and environmental studies (VES) will emerge, like a butterfly from a chrysalis, with a new identity better reflecting what it actually does, if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) embraces a proposal to change its name to the department of art, film, and visual studies.
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
John Ruskin is hardly a household name, but the English artist, art critic, and social theorist was widely influential among his nineteenth-century contemporaries, and many intellectuals who followed.
Director Agnès Varda visits Harvard for the Norton Lectures on Cinema
At the Harvard Film Archive, the staff called it V-Day: the date of Agnès Varda’s arrival in Cambridge, for appearances at screenings of Faces, Places (2017) and Vagabond (1985), and for her 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema the next week. When the French film director walked onstage at Sanders Theatre on February 26, wearing queenly purple and her maroon-dipped bowl haircut, the crowd greeted her with a standing ovation.
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How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
Thirty or 40 years ago, companies like General Motors and Chase Manhattan Bank hired their own janitors and clerical staff, not just top executives and engineers. Today, low-skilled jobs are often outsourced, with effects that are rippling across the American workforce. Throughout the 2016 election cycle, immigrants and globalization proved politically popular scapegoats for the disappearance of American jobs. But according to Allison professor of economics Lawrence F.
“Bravery, Not Perfection”
On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P. ’99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech. Actually, it was more than one classroom visit—it was all of them.
Linguists’ search for the nature of speech, sign, and universal grammar
For the first time in more than two decades, Harvard began offering an American Sign Language (ASL) course last fall. Assistant professor of linguistics Kathryn Davidson, who works on sign languages, happened to join the linguistics department in 2015—at the same time that students were calling for ASL classes—and signed the paperwork to get the course approved.
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin examines the gender wage gap
It’s deceptively easy to calculate how much—or how little—women in the United States earn relative to men. “You take everyone who’s working 35 or more hours a week for the full year, find the median for women, find the median for men, and divide,” says Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin, explaining how to arrive at the ratio repeated by public officials: 78 cents to the dollar.
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