When Paul Giamatti was 7 years old, his mother told him the story of the Eugène Ionesco play “Rhinoceros.” Giamatti was a monster enthusiast at the time, and something about the idea of a man turning into a rhinoceros lodged in his brain.
Sixteen years ago, an invasive pest called the woolly adelgid arrived at Harvard Forest and slowly began to devastate its the eastern hemlocks — as they had done in forcce elsewhere. Since then, Harvard Forest scientists have begun to study how to manage the demise of its so-called foundation species.
The John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and associate professor of African and African American Studies is one of eight U.S. visual arts writers to receive the award this year.
Piano Technical Services and the Office for the Arts worked with Vijay Iyer, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, to select the “unusually strong” instrument.
Professor Sarah Lewis’s curated exhibition, “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground,” opened September 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
A September 14 talk, co-hosted by the Division of Arts & Humanities’ Public Culture Project and Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, explored the distinctions between human and artificial intelligence.
Flynn, 38, was recognized for uncovering a new class of RNA molecules on cell surfaces. He was among 18 finalists, announced Wednesday, selected from a pool of 372 nominees.
The topping-off ceremony, a construction rite rooted in ancient Scandinavian rituals, took place August 27 at the site of the future Pritzker Hall, which will house the Department of Economics. The building project was set in motion five years ago.
Two Harvard scientists describe a way to engineer the evolutionary landscape that viruses experience, pushing them away from dangerous variants and into evolutionary dead ends.
Amid the rhythms of the back-to-campus bustle, new faculty find themselves experiencing the same first-day excitement — and jitters. We dropped in on three, on the first day of their first classes.
As the sun sinks below the horizon, two scientists perch quietly beside a darkening field and wait for flashes of light. They have traveled far outside the city in search of research sites, because they study a group of creatures that have been driven to the margins of human settlements: fireflies.