Tag: South Carolina

  • Nation & World

    Her daughter about to be sold away, an enslaved mother carefully packs her a sack

    In Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried,” the book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart.

    8 minutes
    Sack with embroidery.
  • Nation & World

    Growing home

    Izzy Goodchild-Michelman is a South Carolina native who spent six weeks working for Hub City Urban Farm in Spartanburg, S.C., before she started at Harvard. She helped write grants and revamped the educational Seed to Table curriculum that’s used with elementary and middle school students.

    3 minutes
    A collage of photos of Izzy working on the farm
  • Nation & World

    Growing connections

    For her Service Starts with Summer project, South Carolina native Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’23 spent six weeks working on a farm, revamping the educational Seed to Table curriculum that serves elementary and middle-school students.

    4 minutes
    Students
  • Nation & World

    Hearkening to herbs

    At the Harvard Herbaria, Steph Zabel is a curatorial assistant who digitizes collections of dried plant specimens. After working hours, she tends living and local plants, running her own herbalism businesses.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    FAS plan will slash greenhouse gas emissions

    Without action to slow the release of greenhouse gases, Harvard biologist and oceanographer James McCarthy said last week, current projections indicate that Massachusetts in 2080 could resemble South Carolina in 2008: The Bay State would experience an average of 24 days over 100 degrees each summer and two solid months of temperatures above 90.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Washington Allston, a name to remember

    When you graduate from a University that counts dozens of U.S. presidents and Supreme Court justices — and hundreds of distinguished scholars, scientists, and Nobel Prize winners — among its alumni, it is easy, even for the most accomplished and talented, to slip through the cracks into obscurity. One such alumnus whose reputation has fallen…

    3 minutes