Final Bow

The Final Push

“It’s like getting shot out of a cannon. We’re going, going, going, and then the first show’s over.” Cast members parade around the club during the second performance of "The Donk."

During the Show

"This is playtime."

In the Mirror

Between Shows

“I get to spend my Friday nights with my Harvard friends and Saturday night with my Donk friends. Or both.”

Becoming Puck

Mauriello paints his nails green while transforming into Doctor Wheelgood, a Puck-inspired, drug-dealing matchmaker in The Donkey Show.

In the Mirror

Mauriello looks in the mirror as he prepares for "The Donk."

Hercules

Mauriello loves Hercules.

Family Strife

Mauriello yells at Elizabeth Leimkuhler '15 during rehearsal for "Little Murders" in which he plays her wife and she his husband.

Silver

Mauriello ties his combat boots during rehearsal for "Little Murders."

To Rehearsal

Mauriello heads to rehearsal for "Little Murders" at the SOCH during the afternoon.

5 Questions With Dario Guerrero-Meneses

Dario Guerrero-Meneses ’15-’16, who came to the United States from Mexico when he was two and a half, recently wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post titled: “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship.” FM had the opportunity to chat with Guerrero-Meneses about his story, the article, and the response.

Hey Professor!

The Minerva School, an ambitious education project whose founder Ben Nelson described as “the first elite American university to be launched in a century,” opened to students this fall. With an advisory board that includes former Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers, the school live-streams immersive seminars to students—capped at 19 per class—for $10,000 a year. Instructional methods are based on cognitive learning research conducted by former Harvard Psychology professor Stephen M. Kosslyn, who joins Minerva as Founding Dean. Students live in San Francisco during their first year, then move together to different cities around the world for each of the following six semesters. FM sat down with the Kennedy School’s Paul E. Peterson, Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance, who analyzed the Minerva program.

A Day in the Life: Mark Mauriello

It’s a typical Saturday night for Mauriello, one of the stars of Diane Paulus’s “The Donkey Show.” It starts at the American Repertory Theater’s Oberon stage and ends, like Saturday nights at Harvard often do, with a Felipe's run.

You're Researching What?

With so many academics and researchers around Harvard, eclectic topics are bound to emerge. Here are some of FM’s favorites.