Tag: Center for the Environment

  • Nation & World

    James McCarthy, environmentalist, dead at 75

    James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and director emeritus of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died on Dec. 11 after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 75.

    5 minutes
    James McCarthy with baseball cap on.
  • Nation & World

    Words aimed at action

    Author Terry Tempest Williams is the guest speaker at the Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center, a new initiative convened by Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey and history Professor Ian J. Miller.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School

    A new lecture series presented by the Center for the Study of World Religions explores ecology in light of religion.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Still ‘two cultures’ but who’s on top?

    Fifty years ago a simple lecture sparked a global debate with lasting implications. On May 7, 1959, British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow declared that the gap between “two cultures,” that of the sciences and the humanities, was a destructive divide hampering the effort to find solutions to the problems of the world.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Undergrads volunteer for Nalgene bottle BPA study

    For a while last month, whenever Scott Elfenbein ’11 was thirsty he’d take a pull or two from a Nalgene bottle. But Elfenbein was quaffing from Nalgene for science, not for convenience. He was one of about 80 Harvard College students who volunteered for a two-week April study intended to track levels of bisphenol A…

    6 minutes