Sarah Sweeney Archives — Harvard Gazette

“I care a lot about people finding their own path, and I think the world’s a better place if we let people figure out their passions and what they?????re good at," says Todd Rose, who directs the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

‘Average’ gets his ire up

Ed School researcher Rose puts emphasis on the individual in new book

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DateMarch 21, 2016March 7, 2019

Amanda Mozea '17 often takes her "best buddy" Amy Richmond out to eat in the Pforzheimer House dining hall.

My buddy

Harvard College students reach out — with friendship

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DateMarch 3, 2016September 7, 2016

Sammi Cannold (center), an artistic fellow at the American Repertory Theater, oversees a rehearsal of "A Language to Hear Myself" with Anwar Omeish '19 (right) and Caro Ribeiro '18 (left).

Blended voices, each with a personal charge

Performance accompanies Radcliffe showcase of feminist poetry

Arts|

DateFebruary 25, 2016

Joseph Gordon-Levitt earned his Pudding Pot the hard way enduring the traditional roast with good humor on Friday night.

Hailing Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hasty Pudding makes visiting actor its 50th Man of the Year

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DateFebruary 5, 2016December 20, 2017

Actors Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw returned to Harvard to revisit the scene of their iconic movie "Love Story," while promoting their latest roles in A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters."

O’Neal, MacGraw revisit youthful ‘Love’

In return to campus, a look back at film that made them stars

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DateFebruary 2, 2016

"My boyfriend wanted me to wear this hat. It’s a Danish-designed, felted-wool hat. Part clown, part writing cap. Kind of silly, kind of fancy,” said Sarah Kantrowitz.

Style by degrees: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Arguably Harvard's most stylish School, the GSD is where minimalism intersects with maximum individualism

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DateDecember 9, 2015September 7, 2016

As The Game approaches, Harvard football is looking for success. But coach Tim Murphy is also preparing his graduating seniors for success in life. Photo by Kai-Jae Wang/Harvard Staff

Less football than life

Harvard players focus on lessons of hard work and team play that will resonate for decades

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DateNovember 18, 2015February 13, 2018

Poet and Radcliffe Fellow Ross Gay is a finalist for the National Book Award for his latest book of poems, “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.”

Literary arc

Radcliffe Fellow Ross Gay finds glory in poetry

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DateNovember 13, 2015March 8, 2019

Luxuriating in both reverence and irreverence, the sacred and the profane, poet and musician Alicia Jo Rabins has published a book called "Divinity School" and also sings about Biblical women in her band Girls in Trouble.

Where the orthodox and unorthodox meet

Poet and musician Alicia Jo Rabins to read and perform at Harvard Hillel

Arts|

DateNovember 12, 2015

“I like to play with words, and most people pick up on it,” said Harvard surgeon Per-Olof Hasselgren, a native of Sweden who became so transfixed with English slang involving body parts that he compiled a book of it.

Body of work

Émigré physician pens book about anatomy-based English expressions

Arts|

DateOctober 14, 2015

Speaking on the anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War, which started on Oct. 6, 1973, Israeli novelist David Grossman spoke at the Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts, sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center. In a talk titled “Facts of Life and Death,” the author conceded that for people living in the Middle East — certainly for Israelis and Palestinians — life and death are nearly synonymous.

Israel’s Grossman reflects

Celebrated novelist says the right has won the debate, but hope for peace remains

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DateOctober 8, 2015

"Our country’s high levels of obesity are a serious problem, but the way we’re approaching it is not working to reduce obesity in adults or prevent it in children," said Harvard anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh. "Moreover, it is doing real, measurable damage to ourselves, our psyches, our relationships, our families, and especially our young people."

Weighed down

‘Fat-Talk Nation’ finds lasting hurt in waistline fixation

Arts|

DateSeptember 14, 2015

Finding the classes that fit

During the College tradition of Shopping Week, students can try out courses before committing

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DateSeptember 9, 2015September 7, 2016

Brittain Ashford (left) and Gelsey Bell perform in Dave Malloy's supernatural off-Broadway musical "Ghost Quartet." This song cycle about love, death, and whiskey runs Sept. 9-12 at Oberon.

Haunted vision

Malloy brings ‘Ghost Quartet’ to Oberon

Arts|

DateSeptember 4, 2015March 8, 2019

Saloni Vishwakarma ’19 moves into Matthews Hall with the help of her mother, Rekha Vishwakarma. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

First, you move in

Freshmen arrive on campus, start settling in to college, and new lives

Campus|

DateAugust 25, 2015September 7, 2016

Summertime, tour time

A guide to the guides of Harvard Square

Campus|

DateAugust 20, 2015January 5, 2018

Makeshift shelters made of recycling and natural materials dot the piers on the Adriatic side of Lido Beach, Italy (photo 1). All the community asks is that other people “tenere pulito,” or keep clean, said James Voorhies, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center. Currently in Venice, he snapped this image of the video and installation titled "Factory of the Sun" by Hito Steyerl in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale (photo 2). Before Italy, Voorhies spent time in Berlin, where he visited Park Gleisdreieck (photo 3), a former industrial and rail yard site recently transformed into a park and public space.

Bringing far nearer

Arts leaders to share travel stories at Carpenter Center

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DateJuly 21, 2015March 8, 2019

“If hair is longer than the ears, it has to be pulled back and tucked under, and as a black woman I just don’t understand how that happens without the right product,” said Myraline Morris Whitaker, who founded the Sister Soldier Project, a grassroots campaign geared at providing hair products to African-American female soldiers to help them comply with military guidelines.

More than help for their hair

Schlesinger Library receives letters from African-American servicewomen

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DateJuly 8, 2015

Minoo Emami’s paintings interrogate war and its lasting effects and also record what it means to be an Iranian woman and wife. In her large-scale works — “War Collection,” on view at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies through Aug. 18 — Emami pairs images of prostheses with familiar household items. “They’re always a permanent subject, and a permanent presence in the life of the person who is an amputee,” she said.

Vivid reminders of war

Exhibition by Iranian artist recalls the human cost of the Iran-Iraq conflict

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DateJune 24, 2015

"Most everyone who has used a camera understands that chance plays a big role in photography. An experienced photographer can make a great image, but so can a toddler wandering around and shooting haphazardly," said Harvard's Robin Kelsey, author of "Photography and the Art of Chance."

Compelled to create art

Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey was drawn to photography and teaching

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DateJune 12, 2015

President Drew Faust hosted the 2015 Harvard Heroes ceremony, honoring 64 employees from across the University for their selfless contributions. “We adapt, we grow, we improve together, led by the inspiring people you see before you — our Harvard Heroes,” Faust said.

They get the job done

Neither snow nor other challenges can stop these Harvard Heroes

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DateJune 9, 2015

Tradition will always make a Harvard Commencement special. Top hats mark the 364th Commencement. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Sea of Crimson, canopy of green

The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard

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DateMay 28, 2015November 8, 2023

Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Robb Moss (from left) interviewed "Whiplash" writer and director Damien Chazelle '07 and co-producers Helen Estabrook '03 and Nicholas Britell ’03 about the success of their low-budget film that became an Oscar-winning hit.

A movie as a mirror

Young Harvard alumni explain the genesis, process of making hit film ‘Whiplash’

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DateMay 14, 2015June 5, 2018

April is National Poetry Month, though at Harvard every month could be. This book of poems is signed by T.S. Eliot, who graduated from Harvard in 1909. Photo by Thomas Earle

Poetic wandering

Walking tour highlights the sights and sounds of literary Harvard

Arts|

DateApril 10, 2015June 19, 2019

The music never dies

A rocker, now working at Harvard, still feeds his passion

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DateApril 9, 2015

Carol Oja, Harvard’s William Powell Mason Professor of Music, chair of the Music Department, and the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic, was in the midst of researching another book on Bernstein’s work when “I realized there was this whole really fascinating racial history” connected with the first production of "On the Town."

In 1944, Broadway subversion

Young, gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, professor recounts

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DateJanuary 26, 2015March 8, 2019

Seth Rogen, (left) actor, comedian and filmmaker; Lizz Winstead, comedian, radio, and television personality; co-creator of ìThe Daily Show; and Alexis Wilkinson, '15 (moderator--not pictured), president, Harvard Lampoon talked about Politics & Humor at the Harvard University Kennedy School Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

Leaders speak, comics listen

Rogen and Winstead bring political humor to JFK Jr. Forum

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DateDecember 3, 2014

The Crimson is undefeated this year and will face rival Yale for the 131st playing of The Game on Saturday at Harvard Stadium.

Ready for The Game

With ESPN and NBC broadcasting on campus, Ivy’s two best football teams square off

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DateNovember 20, 2014

Ruth Kolodney, an administrator in the Department of Philosophy, worked on a stack of thank you notes to her colleagues (photo 1) at the Giving Thanks open house. Meanwhile, Department of African and African American Studies staffers Cassandra Fradera (foreground, photo 3) and Marva Bernard-Saunders transcribed their thankful messages.

A simple ‘thank you’

At Harvard, colleagues have chance to appreciate each other

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DateNovember 18, 2014

“I took up this project in order to honor a very small but extremely dedicated group of scholars and translators who have brought this religious tradition back into the light. And I tried to include material from the earliest texts that allow us to say something about Daoism all the way up to the present spread of Daoism to unlikely places,” said Harvard's James Robson, who has edited the Daoism volume in the “The Norton Anthology of World Religions."

Daoism’s ongoing influence

Professor wrote new volume on the religion and its impact for ‘Norton Anthology’

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DateNovember 12, 2014

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Ed School researcher Rose puts emphasis on the individual in new book

Harvard College students reach out — with friendship

Performance accompanies Radcliffe showcase of feminist poetry

Hasty Pudding makes visiting actor its 50th Man of the Year

In return to campus, a look back at film that made them stars

Arguably Harvard's most stylish School, the GSD is where minimalism intersects with maximum individualism

Harvard players focus on lessons of hard work and team play that will resonate for decades

Radcliffe Fellow Ross Gay finds glory in poetry

Poet and musician Alicia Jo Rabins to read and perform at Harvard Hillel

Émigré physician pens book about anatomy-based English expressions

Celebrated novelist says the right has won the debate, but hope for peace remains

‘Fat-Talk Nation’ finds lasting hurt in waistline fixation

During the College tradition of Shopping Week, students can try out courses before committing

Malloy brings ‘Ghost Quartet’ to Oberon

Freshmen arrive on campus, start settling in to college, and new lives

A guide to the guides of Harvard Square

Arts leaders to share travel stories at Carpenter Center

Schlesinger Library receives letters from African-American servicewomen

Exhibition by Iranian artist recalls the human cost of the Iran-Iraq conflict

Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey was drawn to photography and teaching

Neither snow nor other challenges can stop these Harvard Heroes

The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard

Young Harvard alumni explain the genesis, process of making hit film ‘Whiplash’

Walking tour highlights the sights and sounds of literary Harvard

A rocker, now working at Harvard, still feeds his passion

Young, gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, professor recounts

Rogen and Winstead bring political humor to JFK Jr. Forum

With ESPN and NBC broadcasting on campus, Ivy’s two best football teams square off

At Harvard, colleagues have chance to appreciate each other

Professor wrote new volume on the religion and its impact for ‘Norton Anthology’

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