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.
When Hoon Lee ’94 received the script for the role of Lee in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” he was prepared to be skeptical. Decades in the industry had left the Massachusetts-born actor wary of roles that perpetuate Asian stereotypes.
This past summer, three Harvard students helped transport Manhattan audiences to Parisian rooftops, opera house dressing rooms, and a subterranean labyrinth in “Masquerade,” an immersive adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
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.
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.
For more than three decades, the Harvard College First-Year Arts Program has served as incoming students’ first encounter with the breadth of artistic people, places, and pursuits awaiting them on campus.
Crimson Kickoff, launched in 2024, is a newer tradition that heralds the start of orientation week. The pep-rally-style event peaked — at least decibel-wise — with a yard-by-yard screaming contest.
Deep in the woods of Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology is cultivating a renewable resource — future generations of scientists.
The first-of-its-kind discovery is expected to set off a search for signs of life.
After spending two years immersed in digitized versions of the Tibetan Buddhist canon for his Harvard Divinity School studies, Sherab Chomphel, M.T.S. ’25, was finally face to face with the centuries-old block prints themselves.
FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra helped dedicate a plaque at the teenage home of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.