Sarah Sweeney

Oct. 25 marked the centennial of the poet John Berryman, who was Harvard's Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English from 1940 to 1943. Berryman jumped from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis in 1972 at the age of 57.

‘Dream Songs’ and demons

John Berryman centennial reintroduces Pulitzer-winning poet and onetime Harvard lecturer

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DateOctober 30, 2014September 11, 2019

When it comes to ghosts at Harvard, the University doesn't lack for stories.

Harvard’s ‘haunted’ Houses

As Halloween nears, be afraid, be very afraid — or at least curious

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DateOctober 29, 2014April 17, 2019

Harvard's Helen Vendler spoke about Wallace Stevens' works during the listening premiere of found Woodberry Poetry Room recordings of the poet. The recordings were scheduled by letter (photo 2) for October 8, 1954, but were accidentally left out of Harvard's catalogs.

Is that Wallace Stevens?

Vendler joins Woodberry celebration of found recording

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DateOctober 23, 2014February 28, 2019

Oprah Winfrey was one of the recipients of the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at a ceremony hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (photo 1). Also honored for their "outstanding contributions to African-American culture" was U.S. Rep. John Lewis (photo 2), calypso legend Harry Belafonte (photo 3), seen here with Gates (from left), President Drew Faust, Glenn H. Hutchins ’77, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83, and film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Powerful voices

Du Bois Medalists honored at Sanders Theatre ceremony

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DateSeptember 30, 2014May 17, 2019

While planning a new Harvard course, Robert M. Beren Professor of Government Eric Nelson began to see the story of the American Revolution quite differently. That difference spurred his new book, “The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding."

Revolutionary thinker

Professor's revisionist study focuses on Parliament

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DateSeptember 29, 2014

In his new book, Adam Tanner discusses the rise of data collection, as well some of the privacy-enhancing tools that citizens can use to protect themselves.

Watching the watchers

Harvard fellow dives into data collection for new book

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DateSeptember 15, 2014

Carr Center Program Director Tim McCarthy (center) kicked off The A.R.T. of Human Rights with a discussion with activist John "Long Jones" Wambere (from left), Malika Zouhali-Worrall, and "Witness Uganda" co-creators Griffin Matthews, and Matt Gould (photo 1). Wambere and Zouhali-Worrall discussed their documentary "Call Me Kuchu" (photo 2), and Matthews and Gould performed some songs from their hit musical.

Bearing witness to Uganda

Musical, film spotlight difficulties of being gay in African nation

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DateSeptember 10, 2014May 17, 2019

With their kids settling into Harvard, parents are packing up. Laquetta Prince (photo 1) prepares to return to Houston after seeing daughter Shannon off; Michelle Friesen and daughter Nikki buy some last-minute dorm essentials at CVS (photo 2); and Karina Hunter and husband Steve Jackson (photo 3) will say goodbye to son Tucker at a big family dinner.

Goodbye parents, hello Yard!

Emotions range from joy to wistfulness as students part with families

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DateAugust 27, 2014

Plato's Organic Harvest in Middleboro is one of the many Massachusetts businesses that brings its products to the Farmers' Market at Harvard University. Dave Purpura is the owner of the farm. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

From farms to tables

A look at where the food sold at the Harvard Farmers' Market originates

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DateAugust 11, 2014June 21, 2019

“This is an African hat,” said West Africa-born Boubacar Diakite, a professor in the Department of African Studies. “Once you reach 40, you wear it every day. It’s a sign of wisdom.”

Common Threads: Summer in the Yard

Harvard is keeping cool when the heat is on

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DateJuly 31, 2014September 7, 2016

The unsinkable Alex Calabrese

Recent arrival splits time between stage and Harvard pool

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DateJuly 30, 2014

Yeats and Bishop made Bret Anthony Johnston's summer reading list but, he said, "I’m eager to happen upon unexpected used bookstores, tag sales, and library fundraisers, where I often buy books outside of my typical reading inclinations."

Summertime, and the reading is easy

Faculty members outline what they’ll be perusing during their downtime

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DateMay 26, 2014

Berkman Center for Internet & Society Director Jonathan Zittrain (left) participated in a lunchtime talk with artist Lauren McCarthy, who discussed her work and screened snippets of her OkCupid dates as part of the presentation.

On a date, with everyone

Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights

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DateMay 21, 2014May 2, 2019

Common Threads: Budding trends

Boston’s unpredictable clime melds fashion with function

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DateMay 6, 2014September 7, 2016

“Most young people discover slam poetry through YouTube,” said Speak Out Loud member Virginia Marshall ’15 (photo 1). “But it started as an art form in Chicago in 1985." It was brought to Harvard's campus by co-founder Cassandra Euphrat Weston ’14 (photo 2).

The poetry of slam

Harvard group grows, thrives, will perform at Visitas

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DateApril 24, 2014May 31, 2019

“We wanted to invite extraordinary writers to participate in conversations with our student writers,” said Bret Anthony Johnston (from left, center chairs), the curator of Writers in the Parlor, which brought writers Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon to campus in March.

For writers and students, a break from solitude

Series a continuous conversation on craft, aspirations

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DateApril 21, 2014

Madeline Cooper '16 (photo 1) said she will run the Boston Marathon again this year. Cooper and Patrick Rooney '14 (photo 2), who ran the marathon last year, were at the Memorial Church for a quiet moment of remembrance. Harvard landscaper Danny Mata (photo 3) prepared the church for the day's events by placing daffodils on its steps.

Remembering the marathon

At Memorial Church, runners, students, others pay respects on anniversary of Boston bombing

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DateApril 15, 2014April 17, 2019

"We tried to be novelistic, we tried to write ourselves into inescapable corners,” "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan told Harvard President Drew Faust in a talk about the acclaimed series starring Bryan Cranston (photo 2).

Breaking down ‘Bad’

Show creator Vince Gilligan reveals aspects of his own psyche in discussing Walter White's

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DateApril 4, 2014

Hearkening to herbs

Beyond work, Zabel studies and uses them, advising on their qualities

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DateApril 3, 2014June 19, 2019

"If you make the humanities available to everyone, everyone has something to say, everyone has something to give, everyone has something to learn," said Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free, nationwide course available to individuals experiencing adverse conditions or economic hardship. McCarthy holds the course's first endowed chair.

Teaching on campus and off

For years, Tim McCarthy has taught students in Dorchester, in a program where he now has an endowed chair

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DateMarch 25, 2014

Between the lines

Harvard faculty reveal connections to the books they love

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DateMarch 17, 2014

After a screening of their new film "Cesar Chavez," director Diego Luna (center) and producer Pablo Cruz (left) spoke with Marshall Ganz, a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School who worked with Chavez in the 1960s. “Nothing has been so personal in my life,” said Luna about telling Chavez's story.

The leadership of Cesar

Film recounts life of Chavez, who organized farm workers

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DateMarch 4, 2014May 21, 2019

Junior Ben Zauzmer's mathematical calculations predict that "Gravity" will take home the Oscar for best picture. “But I will say, if I had to guess, that’s going to be one of the wrong predictions,” he said.

Calling the Oscars

By crunching data in advance, Harvard junior has predicted many Academy Award winners

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DateFebruary 27, 2014

“He asked me if I’d be willing,” recalled Max Tan '15 of his invitation from Benjamin Zander, “and I was thinking, ‘You want me to do what?’ ” Tan will perform the Barber Violin Concerto on March 7 with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, conducted by Zander.

A sweet-sounding moment

Max Tan ’15 is named violin soloist for Youth Orchestra concert

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DateFebruary 27, 2014

“Growing up in Alabama, I didn’t have the language, but I knew I was feminine,” said Laverne Cox, who stars in the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black." At Harvard, Cox shared the experience of being a transgender woman who portrays a transgender woman on a hit TV series. The biggest life change, she said, is having a broader platform to be an activist for transgender people. “I’ve been talking about this for years, and now people are listening."

A transformative TV role

Actress Laverne Cox discusses her uneasy climb and her breakout role in ‘Orange Is the New Black’

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DateFebruary 25, 2014December 15, 2017

LL Cool J (second from left) was presented the Harvard Foundation's Artist of the Year award by S. Allen Counter. “There’s been no one more committed to young people’s education than LL Cool J,” Counter said. Aubrey Walker ’15 and Soyoung Kim '14, co-directors of Cultural Rhythms, shared the Sanders Theatre stage during Saturday's award presentation.

Cool with a capital C

Hip-hop star hosts Cultural Rhythms, is Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year

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DateFebruary 24, 2014April 23, 2019

This cute valentine is one of many quirky and earnest vintage keepsakes unearthed from the Harvard University Archives and the Schlesinger Library. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

All for love

For Valentine’s Day, professors read an enduring poem of caring

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DateFebruary 13, 2014April 23, 2019

Couples therapist Shiri Cohen, an instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), regularly helps lovers sort through the lows of their relationships, while Edison Miyawaki (photo 2), an assistant professor of neurology at HMS, offers some science to what's behind our behavior when in love: “A lot of brain function in love and lust seems to pause.”

Love, it’s a battlefield

Relationships, and their complexity, take spotlight on Valentine’s Day

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DateFebruary 11, 2014September 12, 2019

Hasty's Man of the Year Neil Patrick Harris (center) toured the Hasty Pudding Institute on Winthrop Street. The tour offered photos of past recipients of the Pudding Pot, including Bruce Willis. Leading the tour were Chaffee Duckers '16 (left) and Robert Fitzpatrick '16. Harris with his own Pudding Pot (photo 2).

A Hasty entrance for Neil Patrick Harris

Star of stage, screen visits to receive his Man of the Year award

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DateFebruary 7, 2014

Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Helen Mirren rides in a parade through Harvard Square (photo 1), flanked by Hasty Pudding Theatricals President Tony Oblen '14 (left) and cast Vice President Ethan Hardy '14. Earlier in the day, Mirren was treated to a tour of Hasty's new digs at 96 Winthrop St. (photo 2) and of Harvard Yard, led by Megan McDonnell '14 (photo 3).

The Queen, for a day

Dame Helen Mirren visits Harvard as Hasty’s Woman of the Year

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DateJanuary 30, 2014

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John Berryman centennial reintroduces Pulitzer-winning poet and onetime Harvard lecturer

As Halloween nears, be afraid, be very afraid — or at least curious

Vendler joins Woodberry celebration of found recording

Du Bois Medalists honored at Sanders Theatre ceremony

Professor's revisionist study focuses on Parliament

Harvard fellow dives into data collection for new book

Musical, film spotlight difficulties of being gay in African nation

Emotions range from joy to wistfulness as students part with families

A look at where the food sold at the Harvard Farmers' Market originates

Harvard is keeping cool when the heat is on

Recent arrival splits time between stage and Harvard pool

Faculty members outline what they’ll be perusing during their downtime

Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights

Boston’s unpredictable clime melds fashion with function

Harvard group grows, thrives, will perform at Visitas

Series a continuous conversation on craft, aspirations

At Memorial Church, runners, students, others pay respects on anniversary of Boston bombing

Show creator Vince Gilligan reveals aspects of his own psyche in discussing Walter White's

Beyond work, Zabel studies and uses them, advising on their qualities

For years, Tim McCarthy has taught students in Dorchester, in a program where he now has an endowed chair

Harvard faculty reveal connections to the books they love

Film recounts life of Chavez, who organized farm workers

By crunching data in advance, Harvard junior has predicted many Academy Award winners

Max Tan ’15 is named violin soloist for Youth Orchestra concert

Actress Laverne Cox discusses her uneasy climb and her breakout role in ‘Orange Is the New Black’

Hip-hop star hosts Cultural Rhythms, is Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year

For Valentine’s Day, professors read an enduring poem of caring

Relationships, and their complexity, take spotlight on Valentine’s Day

Star of stage, screen visits to receive his Man of the Year award

Dame Helen Mirren visits Harvard as Hasty’s Woman of the Year

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