Tag: Florida

  • Nation & World

    Future design

    As a leading architect and urbanist, Charles Waldheim is helping Miami adapt to a changing climate.

    3 minutes
    Collage of map and images of Florida and photo of Charles Waldheim
  • 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

    Alienation proves fertile state of mind for Lauren Groff

    The Gazette spoke with fiction writer and Radcliffe fellow Lauren Groff about subversive prose, mothers and children, and crafting a vivid sense of place.

    4 minutes
    Lauren Groff.
  • Nation & World

    Rock ’n’ roll recovery mission

    The Big 6, a cover band formed at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is planning a concert to aid communities recovering from Hurricanes Harvey, Irene, and Maria.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When the past is present

    Marcus Briggs-Cloud believes native language is what connects communities. His time at the Divinity School has helped him strengthen that bridge.

    4 minutes
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    Florida: The far side of paradise

    It was near midnight. Gnarly oak trees and sandy pines draped with Spanish moss encroached upon the narrow road. Warm air sweetened by the scent of orange blossoms wafted through the windows as the van lurched to a stop. The headlights illuminated a metal sign pinned to a gate that read “Archbold Research Station.” We…

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The Holy Land comes to Florida as a theme park

    Little did a Harvard scholar who studies sacred spaces imagine that she would find the Holy Land in Florida. Several years ago, while chatting with her niece, a resident of the Sunshine State, Joan Branham, visiting associate professor of women’s studies and early Christianity and Judaism and acting director of the Women’s Studies in Religion…

    5 minutes