A new exhibit at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, opening Friday, probes how calipers and spirometers never simply recorded differences. They helped invent them.
Cooperation can make us stronger, building alliances and increasing the availability of resources. A recent symposium hosted by the Human Evolutionary Biology Initiative brought together researchers to examine this principle, sharing studies and findings on intergroup cooperation from a variety of fields.
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.
“If you get a sense that someone sees something in you — talent, capacity, or passion — that you haven’t recognized, listen to them carefully and take their suggestions seriously,” President Alan Garber advised the Class of 2030.
When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, Mass., his $500 “nonresident scholarship” covering tuition and a study space at Leverett House but not room and board.
Why do so many people feel lonely in a world designed for connection? As Ian Corbin sees it, Americans are experiencing a crisis of belonging, which he attributes to some fundamental misunderstandings about what humans need to flourish.
Scholars from around the United States recently gathered at Harvard to crack an unsolved problem in mathematics: how to make the subject more relevant to undergraduates.
FAS graduates collected their diplomas at more than a dozen smaller gatherings
Recipients chosen for their lifetime contributions and transformative achievements
“Your real education starts now,” comedy legend tells grads, urging them to defy ”extreme narcissism” of the times
Graduates queueing up for the big ceremony paused to reflect and soak it all in