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“People Were Making Bricks Out of Straw”
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE Log in | Register Articles News more News Public health leader Joia Mukherjee addresses Harvard Medical and Dental Graduates at Class Day.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Commencement Address
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE Log in | Register Articles News more News Public health leader Joia Mukherjee addresses Harvard Medical and Dental Graduates at Class Day.
Harvard Graduates Leave No One Behind
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE Log in | Register Articles News more News Harvard’s emotional celebration provides closure for the classes of 2020 and 2021—and honors those who served during the pandemic.
The Medical-Robotics Revolution
Features Engineering advances in surgery, mobility, and patient care by Jonathan Shaw What if a cardiac surgeon could operate on a beating heart without opening the patient’s chest? Or a flexible robot could navigate the delicate branching of blood vessels, or bronchi in the lungs, and then stiffen to perform surgery at its tip? Or a magnetic field could be engineered to drive a plaque-clearing robot inside a person’s arteries?
Football 2019: Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6
If you play football for 146 seasons, you are bound to experience bitter losses. But few in the annals of Harvard gridiron lore have been as heart-ripping, soul-sucking, and gut-tearing as the last-play, 9-6 defeat literally snatched from victory suffered at the hands of Dartmouth on Saturday at Harvard Stadium. It was all the more galling for being so improbable.
Radcliffe Institute conference on activist Angela Davis
On Tuesday morning, Elizabeth Hinton told everyone to get ready. The second and final—and fullest—day of a Radcliffe Institute conference honoring radical activist and global icon Angela Davis was about to start. Davis herself was seated in the front row, smiling beneath her instantly recognizable afro, now a shade of silver-gray. A capacity crowd filled the Knafel Center behind her.
NYT movie critic A.O. Scott profiled by Craig Lambert
A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies In 2012, New York Times film critic Anthony “Tony” Scott ’87 (writing under his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers.
We’re Hiring: Digital Content Strategist
News more News Angela Davis Photograph by Tony Rinaldo A Radcliffe Institute conference looks back on the legacy of activist icon Angela Davis and ahead to freedom struggles at Harvard and around the globe. 10.31.19 Research more Research Professor Michael Kremer shares the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences with two scholars from MIT.
ART Announces Architect for New Allston Theater
In the wake of the February announcement of a $100-million gift that would anchor creation of a new facility for the Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theater (ART) in Allston, the selection of the architect for the project was disclosed today. The assignment will be the first U.S. building for the London-based Haworth Tompkins, whose broad practice has involved several theatrical and performing-arts projects, including renovations and new construction, throughout England.
Harvard overhauls academic counseling, ends BSC
The College today announced a significant change in academic counseling, including a fall-semester transition from the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) to a new entity, named the Academic Resource Center (ARC), which will likely result in a much-changed staff; quite different approaches to assisting students in their transition from high school to college, through challenging phases of graduate study, and in the course of their Harvard academic work; and even a new location, in space being...
The gradual diversification of Harvard’s faculties
Harvard’s faculty ranks have, gradually, become increasingly diverse. The intersection of lifetime tenured appointments; no mandatory retirement age; a decade of very constrained growth; and the long time it takes students to progress from studying a discipline through completing doctoral work and proceeding into academia necessarily combine to make the pace of change evolutionary, not revolutionary. But comparing the census totals from late in the presidencies of Lawrence H.
The Middle Class on the Precipice
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months. Middle-class families have been threatened on every front.
Min Jin Lee on Hagwons and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
Author Min Jin Lee, a fellow this year at the Radcliffe Institute, is best known for her epic novel Pachinko (2017). The story follows a Korean family from the nineteenth century through the 1980s, spanning Japan’s annexation of Korea, the central character Sunja’s migration to Japan and survival of World War II, and Japan’s rise as a wealthy consumer society.
Adam Freudenheim brings world literature to young Anglophones
Most American kids have probably never heard of Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King—a fantasy tale of good and evil, feuding kingdoms, and a questing teenage squire named Tiuri—but for millions of Dutch readers the book is a childhood classic, akin to Charlotte’s Web or The Hobbit.
Martha Whitehead Appointed Harvard Librarian
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 Log-In | Register Search form Search Articles News more News Click on arrow at right to see full image gallery (1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
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.
From the Archives: The Examined Life
Recanati professor of medicine Jerome Groopman has, for decades, been among the very rarest species of triple-threat medical professionals: a superb clinical practitioner, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; an accomplished academician, at Harvard Medical School; and perhaps the best explicator of medicine and medical research for lay readers, through his writing for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and in his own books.
Three challenges for Harvard in Allston
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE Log in | Register Articles News more News Harvard’s emotional celebration provides closure for the classes of 2020 and 2021—and honors those who served during the pandemic.
Durba Mitra
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 Log-In | Register Search form Search Articles News more News Nicole Nelson Photograph by Tony Rinaldo Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer
Linnea Olson tells her story—of repeatedly facing death, then being saved by the latest precision therapy—articulately and thoughtfully, agreeing to discuss subjects that might otherwise be too personal, she says, because it could benefit other patients. She lives in an artist cooperative in Lowell, Massachusetts, in an industrial space, together with her possessions and artwork, which fill most of an expansive high-ceilinged room.
A Gendered Schedule
As the Princeton men’s basketball team pulled away from Penn in overtime of the Ivy League tournament semifinals last March, a Tigers supporter paced just outside the team’s locker room, loudly willing the clock down to zero “Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.” His angst was a microcosm of the excitement swelling through the Palestra that afternoon.
Sexual imprinting and speciation in deer mice
What do Darwin’s finches and cichlid fish have in common? Both animals provide intense parental care, which appears to influence their offspring’s mating preferences later in life. In recent decades, scientists have proposed this “sexual imprinting” as one of the main mechanisms that drive explosive speciation within these groups: rapid branching in the tree of life. Sexual imprinting has been observed in 15 orders of birds, some fish, and a few mammals.
Class picture: inside the pilot year of the Harvard Teacher Fellows
“This is something that’s interesting about HTF,” Quan Le ’15 said. “We literally cry every day.” Le was recalling the Harvard Teacher Fellows’ first collective classroom experience: a two-week stint at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Many of the fellows had taught before—at schools in Botswana or the Philippines; at after-school programs; at summer camps—but few had ever stood at the front of a classroom as the teacher of record.
Finding Harlem | Harvard Magazine
Vera Ingrid Grant, director of Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African-American Art, notes that the name “Harlem” evokes many different visions. Some people recall the landmarks central to the Harlem Renaissance, like the Apollo Theater and the Lenox Lounge. Others see the designer stores and boutiques that have begun to emerge, often replacing historic buildings, the same way the Renaissance Ballroom is being replaced by an apartment complex.
A Harvard sociologist studies how veganism went from tasteless to trendy
Distant are the days of Annie Hall, when Woody Allen resigned himself to a plate of alfalfa sprouts and mashed yeast. Over the years, vegan eating has gone from tasteless to trendy to making inroads into the mainstream. One sign of the times: in 2016, Tyson Foods, the largest meat processor in the United States, bought a 5 percent stake in the plant-based protein producer Beyond Meat.
Seeking the genetic underpinnings of mental illness
Andrew LeClerc knew something was wrong when he heard voices when no one else was around. Some were those of people he knew, others were unfamiliar, but all had the authentic mannerisms of real people, not his imagination. He was in his early twenties, unsure of his direction in life, and had been taking synthetic marijuana to ease stress from past traumas.
Fred Glimp, a Harvard legend, dies at 91
Idaho high-school graduate Fred Glimp was serving in the Army Air Corps in Germany after World War II when he decided to “take a whack at Harvard” under the GI Bill. “I didn’t think I’d get in,” he told journalist David McClintick ’62 in an interview for this magazine in 1997. He did.
These Bots Were Made for Walking
Harvard researchers have designed robots to address various medical applications, from helping hearts pump blood to fighting cancer. Now, they’re adding a new accomplishment to their list: improving mobility. Two research teams have tackled this challenge by designing a special type of robot called an exosuit: a soft, flexible robotic device that people can wear like another layer of clothing.
The Forty-Year Fight
“I thought every college had an ethnic-studies program,” says Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez ’17. She dreamed of pursuing Chicano studies in college, and says she was “shocked to learn that Harvard not only doesn’t have Chicano studies, they don’t even have an ethnic-studies department!” She applied and enrolled nevertheless—and began advocating for academic opportunities in her dream field. Perhaps her efforts could make it an option for future students.
John Manning Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
As Harvard Law School (HLS) prepares to celebrate its bicentennial year, it will do so under new leadership. President Drew Faust today named Bromley professor of law John F. Manning, who has been deputy dean, as dean, effective July 1. The appointment of Manning, a graduate of Harvard College (1982) and HLS (1985), continues the tradition of selecting the school’s leader from within its faculty ranks.
“Jump In, the Water’s Great!”
Underneath the tent in Greenleaf Yard last Friday, Radcliffe alumnae, family, and friends huddled together (in spite of a persistent drizzle) to try to answer a question that has been asked throughout the spring term and at this year’s Commencement exercises: Is there still hope for integrity in journalism?
Joe Biden will be Class Day speaker
Joseph R. Biden, the forty-seventh vice president of the United States, will address graduating Harvard College seniors in Tercentenary Theatre on Class Day, May 24. “I am honored to be invited to be a part of this special day at Harvard. Today’s generation of students is the most engaged, the most tolerant, and the best educated in the history of the United States of America.
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
For “persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post's David ’00 has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting.
From the Archives: We Remember World War I
One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered the Great War that soon came to be known as World War I. Here, from the Harvard Magazine archives, are first-hand stories of that conflict, collected by Adam Goodheart ’92. Goodheart, now a best-selling author, historian, and journalist, realized shortly after graduating from the College that the Harvard men and women who served in that war were dwindling in number.
Results of Sexual Conduct Survey released by Harvard and AAU
Harvard today released the results of a sexual conduct survey taken at the University during the spring of 2015, and the results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public AAU (Association of American Universities) institutions that participated—are troubling both for the University and for higher education more generally in the United States. In a letter to President Drew Faust that was released in conjunction with the AAU aggregate report, former University provost Steven E.
Men’s Hockey Advances to Final Four
After sneaking in one last practice at Bright-Landry Hockey Center Tuesday afternoon, the Harvard men’s hockey team boarded an evening flight, on their way to Chicago and the United Center and—for the first time in 23 years—the Frozen Four. On Thursday at 6 p.m. EST, the Crimson will take on Minnesota Duluth, a team it hasn’t faced in more than two decades and that won the national title in 2011. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
Harvard College class schedule math requirement
At its regularly scheduled meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS): Before that business could begin, Dean Michael D. Smith announced results of the faculty’s election of members to its Faculty Council—and the embarrassing outcome that all six newly elected members are male. He pledged to “redouble our efforts” to achieve greater diversity, and asked the standing committee on women to consider improvements in the election process.
“Amazement at the Physicality of Things”
Editors' note: Arthur Schott Lopes ’19, a Classics concentrator, served as an undergraduate fellow during the preparations for the Houghton Library’s seventy-fifth anniversary exhibition, covered in “An ‘Enchanted Palace,’” in the March-April 2017 issue. We asked him to share his experiences as a College student delving into the library’s collections. Until the 1990s, Houghton Library’s outer doors were made of steel.
Harvard graduate students to receive lower stipend increases
Harvard graduate students will receive stipend increases of 1.5 percent next year, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Xiao-Li Meng wrote in an email to students this week. The increase represents a significant reduction from previous year’s raises (stipends rose 3 percent for the current academic year), and comes during a moment of financial restraint for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—as well as concerted labor organizing among graduate students.
Engaging with “Inclusion” at Harvard
As Harvard and other educational institutions have honed their admissions and hiring policies to make their communities more diverse along multiple dimensions, they have come to focus recently on “inclusion”: trying to ensure that all members of their more heterogeneous populations actually feel that they belong, fully and comfortably, within those communities.
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
Harvard College announced today that 2,056 students have been offered admission to the class of 2021 (including the 938 accepted last December under the early-action program). The College received a record 39,506 applications this year, up just 1 percent from the 39,041 candidates last year. The very slight increase in applicants translated into an admission rate of 5.2, nearly identical to last year’s.
The Millennial Class | Harvard Magazine
Later today, the nearly 40,000 applicants to Harvard College’s class of 2021 will receive their decisions. Only a small fraction of them will be admitted. How do successful candidates pull it off?
Analytics has the power to transform government
In 2011, after nine years and a $2-billion investment, New York City’s revamped 911 system still had a major problem: trouble in tracking emergency responses, especially when multiple calls came in about the same incident, or one call involved multiple incidents. This made it nearly impossible for officials to tease out why some city residents waited longer for aid—a matter, potentially, of life and death.
Ashton Carter to Harvard Kennedy School
Ashton B. Carter, who concluded his service as the twenty-fifth U.S. Secretary of Defense with the transition from President Barack Obama to President Donald J. Trump, is rejoining the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
We’ve Heard All about Fake News-Now What?
There has been no shortage of events at Harvard on the public’s loss of trust in journalism and the prominence of fake news stories and outlets. In many ways, Thursday’s panel at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, moderated by Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow, was a practical outcome of those discussions.
Harvard social club sanctions update
Controversy over the College’s policy to sanction students who join unrecognized single-gender social organizations (USGSOs, like final clubs, fraternities, and sororities) continues, revealing deep divisions within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and difficulty in reaching consensus about a workable outcome—or even about basic matters of governance.
Logic Is a Little Magazine That Asks Big Questions about the Tech Industry
Logic is a newcomer to the world of little magazines, seeking to join the likes of n+1, The New Inquiry, and The Baffler, but its masthead isn’t filled with the predictable English majors and pundits. Three of its four editors—Ben Tarnoff ’07, Christa Hartsock ’10, and Jim Fingal ’06— come from various backgrounds in the tech space.
Harvard President Drew Faust Vietnam
President Drew Faust has often described how the battle to achieve civil rights for African Americans shaped her worldview, from her youthful exposure to the upheaval over school desegregation in Virginia to her college involvement in the catalytic voting-rights march at Selma. Now, she has engaged with the other defining trauma of that era, the war in Vietnam.
Harvard PBK literary exercises will feature Sherry Turkle and Mark Doty
writer Mark Doty and social psychologist Sherry Turkle will speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the society confers honorary memberships and its undergraduates recognize outstanding faculty teachers. Mark Doty, best known for his writing on bereavement and gay life, teaches at Rutgers.
Graduate Student Union Challenges
Harvard’s graduate-student union election ended inconclusively last December. Although 1,456 students voted against unionization, and 1,272 voted in favor, more than 300 additional ballots—larger than the voting margin—remain under challenge.
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