Tag: Andrew Berry

  • Nation & World

    A pioneering geneticist and Renaissance man of parts

    Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.

    7 minutes
    Dick Lewontin.
  • Nation & World

    From lecture to comedy sketch

    Students see professors stand up in front of a class every day, but they don’t often see them do stand-up onstage. The Harvard College Stand Up Comic Society has changed that with the Harvard faculty comedy showcase.

    1 minute
    Jonathan Walton delivers a comedy routine for charity.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Adventuring with purpose’

    Harvard’s Liz Roux could look back on sorrow and tragedy, but she runs looking ahead, at adventures and opportunities and people to encourage her.

    6 minutes
    Roux in a tree
  • Nation & World

    Written in the bones

    Harvard doctoral students offered a glimpse of the future of evolutionary inquiry, outlining projects that touch on the human pelvis, butterfly hybrids, field and forest mice, and the mystery of an ancient pile of bones.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Finding perspective in the unexpected

    Midyear graduates share lessons learned, both at Harvard and during time away.

    7 minutes
    Hanaa Masalmeh, Audria Amirian, and Carolina Brettler.
  • Nation & World

    Midyear graduates recognized

    More than 100 Harvard students, along with their families and friends, gathered in the Radcliffe Gymnasium on Dec. 6 to celebrate the 2012-13 Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony. The event recognized students who graduate in November or March, off the usual Commencement cycle.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Thinks Big

    Ten great ideas from 10 great professors in 10 minutes or less. Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion that paired leading lecturers with eager listeners, attracted these great minds to help explore and inspire new ways of thinking, in the first session of what organizers hope will become an annual experience.

    5 minutes