Educating Educators
New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long takes stock a year inJohn S. RosenbergJuly-August 2019 educating-educatorsBridget Terry Long had the good timing to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of...
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Dance in Translation
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”Marina N. BolotnikovaJuly-August 2019 dance-in-translation-fusionWhen Wendy Jehlen, M.T.S. ’00, improvises...
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Cabaret and Cooperation
Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale brings people togetherPink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together.Jacob SweetJuly-August 2019...
View ArticleThe 2019 Harvard Medalists
2019 Harvard MedalistsJuly-August 2019 2019-medalistsThree alumni received the Harvard Medal, for extraordinary service to the University, during the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting...
View ArticleCentennial Medalists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2019 Centennial MedalistsJuly-August 2019 centennial-medalistsThe Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the...
View ArticleNew Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
New Harvard Overseers and HAA elected directors 2019July-August 2019 2019-overseers-and-directorsThe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the HAA were announced...
View ArticleThe Senior Alumni
The Senior AlumniJuly-August 2019 senior-alumniEvelyn Richmond’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Arsen Charles’42, of Westwood, Massachusetts, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni present on...
View ArticleA Dressing That Pulls Wounds Shut
Harvard Scientists Develop Mechanically Active Skin DressingNina Pasquini skin-dressingScientists at Harvard have developed a mechanically active wound dressing (the first of its kind, to the best of...
View ArticleThrow Your Fastball
EssayA life lesson from Willie BanksA life lesson from Willie BanksChad M. OldfatherSeptember-October 2019 willie-banksAs I look back on the path that’s taken me from adolescence to middle age, my...
View ArticleCatalyzing Bioengineering
Hansjörg Wyss boosts biologically inspired engineeringJonathan ShawSeptember-October 2019 wyss-institute-giftWith his $131-million gift in support of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired...
View ArticleAdmissions, through the Ages
Dwight Miller, longtime Harvard admissions officer, retiresCollege admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.John S. RosenbergSeptember-October 2019 admissions-dwight-millerEight years out of...
View ArticleThings Fell Apart
Open BookExcerpt from “Transaction Man” by Nicholas LemannSeptember-October 2019 transaction-manNicholas Lemann’76—past dean of Columbia Journalism School, New Yorker staff writer—has an uncanny...
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Creating a Scene
Lighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates storiesLighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates stories.Nina PasquiniSeptember-October 2019 elizabeth-makElizabeth Mak’12, a theater set...
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“Kind of Dark and Scary”
Animator Renee Zhan profiled by S.I. RosenbaumS.I. RosenbaumSeptember-October 2019 renee-zhan-animationRenee Zhan’16 was hiking along a humid mountain trail in Japan when she looked down to discover...
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A New Way of Being in the World
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas profileElizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humansMarina N. BolotnikovaSeptember-October 2019 elizabeth-marshall-thomasSitting in...
View Article“Harvard Belongs to All of Us”
HAA president Alice HillNell Porter BrownSeptember-October 2019 HAA-alice-hillWhile crisscrossing continents during the past few decades, the new Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president has always...
View ArticleDebt Reliever
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve: helping low-income families deal with debtNina PasquiniSeptember-October 2019 debt-relieverDuring his last two years of college, Rohan Pavuluri ’18 rode the bus from Boston...
View ArticleWhy Diverse Literature Matters
Enlarging the canon, broadening the mindOne reader’s perspectiveJosiane Grégoire diverse-literature-mattersA World of LiteratureWhat role do educators have in changing and shaping the cultural...
View ArticleIs Climate Change Ruining Fall?
Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?Marina N. Bolotnikova Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?New England displays some of the most dramatic fall color in the world. The crowds of leaf-peepers who come here to...
View ArticleWilliam Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineWilliam Kaelin, Farber professor of medicine, has won the Nobel Prize in physiology or...
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