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Winthrop House interim faculty deans Mary Herlihy-Gearan and Mark Gearan
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After a tumultuous semester, Mark and Mary Herlihy-Gearan take up the reins.
A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS
The Office of Technology Development hosts a Palo Alto venture-capital night for Harvard startups.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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Bridget Terry Long
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New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
Dani Rodrik
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Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
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Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Your guide to the best summertime activities
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Pink Cactus
Kay KennyPhotographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
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Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, a thirteenth-century Japanese icon made of wood with inlaid quartz eyesImage courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr., 2019.122.
A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu RosnerThe Peabody professor of music, in brief
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
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Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
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On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
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A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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March-April 2017
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
In this Issue
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
Henry Knowles Beecher, 1950.
Photograph by Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
The flowers of Rafflesia arnoldii are the largest in the world.
Photograph by Jeremy Holden
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Justice Stephen Breyer
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
Right Now
Illustration by Pete Ryan
Gidon Eshel explains the environmental, social, and political effects of food choices.
Illustration by Stuart Bradford
Scientists think they may have an answer.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
Harvard Squared
Restorative scenes: Most Star Island visitors stay at the historic Oceanic House, overlooking lawns and the harbor.
Photograph by Sean D. Elliot
Wild beauty and meaningful retreats on New Hampshire’s Star Island
American Dream, by Sarah Thomas
Courtesy of World of WearableArt Limited
Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
An iron lung, used to treat polio, that was manufactured by J.H. Emerson Co., in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/NPB
Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Walnut Grille tends toward towering dishes and fanciful presentations.
Photograph courtesy of Walnut Grille
Expanding vegetarian dining options in Greater Boston
John Harvard's Journal
The right stuff: Freshman point guard Katie Benzan, shown shooting in the home opener against Maine, led the Harvard women’s basketball team in minutes played and points scored per game through January, helping to spark 16 consecutive wins—tying the longest such streak in Crimson basketball history and raising hopes for an Ivy League championship.
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Basketball teams pursue Ivy League tournament titles.
New leadership begins sweeping change, attempting to improve persistent underperformance.
On the agenda: challenges to endowments and philanthropy
Broadening the debate on Harvard’s single-gender social organizations
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scholar of race, justice, and public policy
Illustration by Mark Steele
A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
A change at Harvard University Press, and more
Illustration by Anthony Freda
The Undergraduate considers campus debate and action in a polarized era.
Martha Minow
Photograph by Ken Richardson
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
Ted Minnis is Harvard’s winningest water polo coach—his path to Blodgett Pool included a few detours and sharp turns.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Ted Minnis makes Harvard an East Coast power in a West Coast sport.
Harvard’s Ryan Donato rushes toward the net in the November game that broke Boston College’s win streak.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Hockey, squash, swimming and diving: winter sports in brief
Montage
Documentarian Kent Garrett ’63 returned to Harvard last fall for a screening of his work.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
Archaic Paestum—the “beginning” of beauty
Photograph by iStock
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Elif Batuman
Photograph by Beowolf Sheehan
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Before writing anything down, Robert Kyr composes his works—music and text—“internally,” he says, from start to finish.
Photograph by Kelly James Photography
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Windermere, 1821, by Joseph M.W. Turner, in the spirit of Wordsworth
Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Elizabeth Bishop: the poet at ease, in 1954
Photograph ©The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Alumni
Shannon Liss-Riordan
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
The 2017 slates
Harvard celebrates its volunteer alumni leaders.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston