Sarah Sweeney

"In a world with many problems where progress isn’t always clear, it is wonderful to see science so clearly advance and for us to be able to answer such basic questions that help us better understand our universe," said Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, on the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Explaining the Higgs

Lisa Randall’s e-book drew quick attention, and a publisher

Science|

DateJanuary 13, 2014

Found in translation

Woodberry associate curator brings Chinese poet’s work to widening audience

News|

DateDecember 10, 2013March 19, 2019

In her exhibit at CGIS, Farrin Abbas Zadeh (photo 2) draws upon Persian motifs and nature-based symbols. “When I close my eyes, I remember my grandfather’s farm and lying down under the trees, and still I can feel the coolness seeping into my body,” she said.

Persian inspiration

Art show is fueled by childhood drawings, natural wonders

Arts|

DateDecember 2, 2013March 19, 2019

Dining in the dark

Student creates banquet so blindfolded friends can sharpen senses beyond sight

Campus|

DateNovember 18, 2013

Translators Forrest Gander (counterclockwise from center) talks with Laura Healy and Anna Deeny before "Transversal." The two women were paired with Latin American poets Washington Cucurto, Tamara Kamenszain, and Malú Urriola. Poet and translator Brandel France de Bravo (left of Gander) will lead a workshop during the symposium, which runs through Thursday.

Poets, meet translators

Unusual series brings Latin American authors together with those who relay their work to other cultures

Arts|

DateNovember 6, 2013April 15, 2019

Before a packed house, Joanne Chang '91 (photo 1) demonstrated a simple baking technique with caramelized sugar, creating a spun-sugar net on a tower of cream puffs, known as croquembouche (photo 2, 3).

Flour power

Chef Joanne Chang explains science of sweets to packed house

Science|

DateNovember 5, 2013

Sox title strikes right note

As Fenway’s organist, Harvard librarian serenaded fans deep into the night

News|

DateNovember 1, 2013April 17, 2019

"I really believe in this course, and I really believe in people making meaning together," said Elisa New, the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature.

Poetry spreads its web

Elisa New will offer a HarvardX course spotlighting the literary art in America

Arts|

DateOctober 18, 2013April 30, 2019

Common Threads at Harvard University. By the Farmers' Market on the Science Center Plaza, Sydney Sykes ’16 shares her thoughts on fashion. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Common Threads: In-between days

Campus|

DateOctober 11, 2013September 7, 2016

The hardest-working man in baseball? Aqil Sajjad, who lost his sight to retina detachments, thought he'd never play sports again until a mobility instructor hired by the University introduced him to beep ball, a modified version of baseball, and Sajjad's future team, the Association of Blind Citizens’ Boston Renegades.

The beep ball player

Using a baseball that makes sounds means that the blind can play the game

Campus|

DateOctober 1, 2013

Professional ballroom dancer Marco Perez-Moreno '13 teaches a salsa move to Minoo Ghoreishi (from left), Gail Olivier, Pedro Romero, and Asare Christian (photo 1); David and Angela Franks practice what they've learned (photo 2); and Asare Christian can't help but smile (photo 3).

Seasoned with salsa

Ed Portal dance class draws from Harvard, Allston communities

Campus|

DateSeptember 25, 2013May 29, 2019

“ ‘Few people’s eyes are fellows,’ ” bifocals inventor Benjamin Franklin once wrote to his younger sister, Jane, according to historian and biographer Jill Lepore. “Jane thought of her brother as her second self. They were like a pair of eyes.”

On closer inspection, not such a plain Jane

Lepore uncovers the story of Benjamin Franklin’s sister

Arts|

DateSeptember 11, 2013

“I wanted to write a book about the interior life,” said novelist Claire Messud of her most recent work, "The Woman Upstairs," and its protagonist Nora. “If you know anything about the book, you know Nora is a little angry. People have said, ‘Did you have trouble accessing that emotion?’ And I said, ‘No, I did not.’ ”

A woman’s endless work

Claire Messud refracts social norms through her latest novel

Arts|

DateAugust 1, 2013

Pedro Reyes observes students from the Spanish Heritage Academy who pitched in to plant the Arboretum's newest shrub, a Japanese hydrangea, with a shovel made from decommissioned firearms; also on hand to help were Arboretum staffers, including Brendan McCarthy (second photo), a horticultural technologist.

Planting for peace

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes brings his Palas por Pistolas project to the Arnold Arboretum

Campus|

DateJuly 16, 2013July 22, 2019

Take-home lessons

Doctoral graduate studied government while holding office in Mexico

World|

DateMay 30, 2013April 17, 2019

“Reading was how I learned how non-Puerto Ricans lived,” said author and screenwriter Esmeralda Santiago at a diversity dialogue hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “I understood something about life that I couldn’t experience in any other way. I could be in a disco reading ‘Madame Bovary’ and not hear the music.”

An author finds her voice

Esmeralda Santiago, born in Puerto Rico, recalls living in two ethnic worlds, and embracing her roots

News|

DateApril 4, 2013June 26, 2019

Former dropout and wild child L. Todd Rose, an unconventional learner, is blazing new trails at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has written a book about his journey, called “Square Peg.”

A wild Rose in bloom

Former dropout is blazing unconventional trails at the Ed School

World|

DateMarch 15, 2013May 10, 2019

“It wasn’t an easy decision,” said freshman Christina Gao, who is taking some time off from Harvard College to train for the 2014 Olympics. “Harvard will always be here for me, but the chance to try for the Olympics doesn’t happen very often.”

A league of her own

With Harvard on hold, Christina Gao is skating to the top

Campus|

DateFebruary 27, 2013May 2, 2019

In writing a second novel, Wood thinks that he’s shaken off some of the self-consciousness that hampered his first.

James Wood’s lighter side

Leading critic on musical diversion and a looser approach to fiction

Arts|

DateFebruary 15, 2013May 8, 2019

Jenny Chang '16 (left) and Ann-Marie Barrett '16 take off their gear after scuba training in the Malkin Athletic Center pool.

Scuba, the Harvard way

Wintersession offers underwater instruction, other offbeat short courses

Campus|

DateJanuary 24, 2013

“If we go through our lives thinking that love needs to be a swept-off-your-feet kind of love, like Romeo and Juliet in the first springs of passion, that’s slightly delusional," said Edison Miyawaki, assistant professor of neurology, who wrote "What to Read on Love, Not Sex," a book about love, literature, and Freud.

He wrote the book of love

Literary neurologist examines the tough work that underlies tender relationships

Arts|

DateJanuary 2, 2013September 12, 2019

Professor David Carrasco's talk covered similarities in end-of-the-world predictions: “There’s an urgency, a totality, and the sense that the message has come from another level of reality to us."

Apocalypse now? Hardly

Professor examines periodic preoccupations with world’s end

Arts|

DateNovember 29, 2012April 3, 2019

Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature David McCann is an authority on sijo (shee-jo), a poetic form often compared with Japanese haiku. Sijo is traditionally paired with music, and McCann likes to sing the poems ... to the sounds of the ukulele.

Poetry in the making

Professor is bringing sijo, a Korean literary form, into forefront

Arts|

DateNovember 20, 2012April 11, 2019

Josh Bell is the new Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in the English Department at Harvard University.

‘Hidden Lake’

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Josh Bell reads his poem

Arts|

DateOctober 22, 2012February 13, 2018

‘While Josh Sleeps’

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Josh Bell reads his poem

Arts|

DateOctober 22, 2012February 13, 2018

Josh Bell is the new Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in the English Department. “I love movies and I tend to have a cinematic conception of the poem anyway,” he says. “A poem is a really great place for a director who’s not inclined to be a director. As a poet you’re producing and giving direction and creating this visual feel and it’s very similar to making movies.”

For whom Josh Bell tolls

New Briggs-Copeland lecturer calls on rocker Vince Neil in latest poems

Arts|

DateOctober 22, 2012July 9, 2019

“This group was created out of a need and a desire for a space for spoken word to exist, and for collaboration,” said Bryan Erickson '15 of Speak Out Loud, a campus spoken word organization.

The literary landscape

Event draws new writers to Harvard groups, publications

Arts|

DateSeptember 22, 2012June 4, 2019

“You could spend your whole life thinking about eggs and have a reason to get out of bed every morning,” said molecular gastronomy pioneer Dave Arnold, director of the French Culinary Institute’s culinary technology department, who kicked off the "Science and Cooking" public lecture series with co-speaker Harold McGee.

‘Thou shall be inventive’

Using science, chefs are reimagining what and how we eat

Science|

DateSeptember 5, 2012July 25, 2019

Amid the gold rush

Harvard alumni garner gold, silver, and bronze

Campus|

DateAugust 10, 2012

You’re all right, lefty

Baseball player serves up pitches, and off the field pitches service

Campus|

DateMay 24, 2012June 19, 2019

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Lisa Randall’s e-book drew quick attention, and a publisher

Woodberry associate curator brings Chinese poet’s work to widening audience

Art show is fueled by childhood drawings, natural wonders

Student creates banquet so blindfolded friends can sharpen senses beyond sight

Unusual series brings Latin American authors together with those who relay their work to other cultures

Chef Joanne Chang explains science of sweets to packed house

As Fenway’s organist, Harvard librarian serenaded fans deep into the night

Elisa New will offer a HarvardX course spotlighting the literary art in America

Using a baseball that makes sounds means that the blind can play the game

Ed Portal dance class draws from Harvard, Allston communities

Lepore uncovers the story of Benjamin Franklin’s sister

Claire Messud refracts social norms through her latest novel

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes brings his Palas por Pistolas project to the Arnold Arboretum

Doctoral graduate studied government while holding office in Mexico

Esmeralda Santiago, born in Puerto Rico, recalls living in two ethnic worlds, and embracing her roots

Former dropout is blazing unconventional trails at the Ed School

With Harvard on hold, Christina Gao is skating to the top

Leading critic on musical diversion and a looser approach to fiction

Wintersession offers underwater instruction, other offbeat short courses

Literary neurologist examines the tough work that underlies tender relationships

Professor examines periodic preoccupations with world’s end

Professor is bringing sijo, a Korean literary form, into forefront

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Josh Bell reads his poem

Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Josh Bell reads his poem

New Briggs-Copeland lecturer calls on rocker Vince Neil in latest poems

Event draws new writers to Harvard groups, publications

Using science, chefs are reimagining what and how we eat

Harvard alumni garner gold, silver, and bronze

Baseball player serves up pitches, and off the field pitches service

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