Conversations
Back to Boston: The Office of Returning Citizens
FM sat down with Kevin R. Sibley, who works to reintegrate the 3,000 individuals who return to Boston each year from incarceration.
'A Living Fossil'
“People still talk about it, because it really is an exemplar of collaboration, of discovery,” he continues, as we stare up the trunk through the (now bare) branches.
WDHPD?
In a time with so much talk about who the next president will be, it is logical to wonder: Do people actually know what Harvard's president does?
Behind @PoeticPoison
Caroline R. Kaufman’s ’21 Instagram account @PoeticPoison now has more than 200,000 followers, but it started as a secret.
'Swimming with Sharks'
Academia’s #MeToo movement doesn’t entirely look like Hollywood’s—at least, not yet.
#MeToo in the Academy
Proclaiming “me, too” means something different on a campus than it does on a screen.
American Lyricist
Amanda S. C. Gorman '20 is the first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and a self-described future candidate for the U.S. presidency.
Hey Professor: Tell Us About Korea's Unified Olympic Team
"It’s very important that the two Koreas are taking the initiative themselves to resolve the problem. That, to me, is a very hopeful thing."
Fifteen Minutes with Randi H. Griffin ’10
Fifteen Minutes caught up with Randi H. Griffin '10 in the midst of her preparation for the upcoming Olympic games in PyeongChang, where she will be playing for the unified Korean team.
Amanda Gorman (front)
Amanda Gorman was awarded for her poetry as the nation's first-ever Youth Poet Laureate.
American Lyricist
Amanda S. C. Gorman '20 poses Sunday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles. Gorman is the nation's first Youth Poet Laureate.
Beautiful Little Worlds: Harvard's Window into the Dutch Golden Age
“The Dutch tradition and the drawings are especially apt to open up immediately and viscerally this relationship between the observer and the observed, and opens itself to life, the social order, and the natural order at precisely a time when Holland was at the forefront of the Enlightenment.”
Talking Punk Rock at Schlesinger Library
Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, isn’t your everyday comic-book hero. And “Altered Gazes,” the Schlesinger Library exhibition in which this 1991 comic is featured, is not your everyday collection.
A Conversation with Harvard’s First Muslim Chaplain
From the Fifteen Minute Magazine: Khalil Abdur-Rashid is four months into his role as the first full-time Muslim chaplain at Harvard University.
Harvard's Insta-Famous
“I’m not trying to be an ‘Instagram influencer.' I probably need a day job.”
Electoral College
Will H. MacArthur ’20 was one of two sophomores who ran in Cambridge’s recent municipal election; Nadya T. Okamoto ’20 ran for a seat on Cambridge’s City Council. Her campaign, too, was unsuccessful.
90 Years Of Grolier
Behind a creaky door lies nearly a century of poetic history: The Grolier Poetry Book Shop has been an integral part of the Harvard Square community since 1927, making it the oldest continuously-run poetry shop in the US.
Breakthrough Starshot
I warn him that I study history, but he is encouraging. “Well, history begins with the big bang.”
Bring Back The Mammoth
I didn’t really expect that this project, which is honestly one percent of my lab, would get more attention than the rest put together, which is fine. You want to engage the public on whatever aspect of science they won’t deny.
Techno-HUDS: College Dining in the Digital Age
HUDS knows when and what you're going to eat tonight.
It Takes Two: The Future of Tattoos
People want to be able to understand themselves by just looking at their bodies, rather than stabbing a needle somewhere or having to wear a device all the time.