Events
The Hemingses of Monticello
Harvard Law School Professor Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her book, The Hemingses of Monticello, a work that provides a glimpse into one of America's first families, yesterday in Austin Hall. CORRECTION An earlier version of this Dec. 3 photo caption erroneously implied that the Jeffersons were one of the first families of Harvard.
Rally for Workers
Harvard workers and their supporters rally outside of the Holyoke Center yesterday evening. Rally participants chanted slogans and held signs that urged Harvard to rehire laid-off workers.
The Bookstore Express
Writer Steve Almond reads from his new collection, This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey, at the Harvard Bookstore yesterday. The book is being printed on demand on the store's espresso book machine. Because the book has multiple covers and it is being printed on demand, Almond takes a show of hands from audience members to see how many book with each cover to print.
Author Speaks Of “Nature’s Blueprint”
How can we learn from nature to get water without wells, materials without mining, or cooling without AC? Over 150 graduate students, faculty members, and Cambridge residents packed into a crowded Loeb Auditorium at the Graduate School of Design to hear author Janine M. Benyus address those very questions.
Author Talks on Ethics
Alex Voorhoeve, who has written on equality and responsibility and the theory of rational choice, advocated dialogue form over “monologic” writing as a means of grappling with tough ethical questions in a panel discussion held last night at the Barker Center.
Doctor Promotes Medical View of Transgenderism
Norman P. Spack, a pediatric endocrinologist who works with transgendered youth, promoted the treatment of transgenderism as a medical condition, ...
Prof. Criticizes Obama Foreign Policy
A California State professor fiercely criticized the Obama administration’s foreign policy at a Harvard Law School speech yesterday for continuing ...
Activists Honored by Caroline Kennedy ’80
Caroline B. Kennedy ’80 presented the Sixth Annual New Frontier Award—created in memory of her father John F. Kennedy ’40—to a congressman and a social entrepreneur at the IOP last night.