Radcliffe Magazine Summer 2012
Featured Magazine Article
Crossroads of Disaster
Imagine the world as a roadway. At the next exit, as we speed along, is a city. The first road sign we see will surely read: Warning. Disaster Ahead.
Radcliffe Dean and Scholar, Wife, and Mother
She didn’t expect to stay in the job. In April 2011, when Lizabeth Cohen accepted Harvard University President Drew Faust’s invitation to become interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute, she was being a good citizen, fulfilling what she saw as her responsibility.
Writing Is Like Doing Push-ups
Growing up, Reginald Dwayne Betts RI ’12 loved to read—everything from biographies of basketball players to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The urge to write, however, didn’t come until he was serving a nine-year sentence for carjacking.
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Photo by Kathleen DooherListening to Tayari Jones
Novelist Tayari Jones has been on a roll lately, with the success of her third novel, Silver Sparrow, a story about two young girls who have the same father but different mothers.
David Bezmozgis in the Harvard Map Collection, where he traced the 1919 routes of the Canadian railroad system.What If?
David Bezmozgis RI ’12, the Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, likes to think about “what ifs.”
From Ancient Games to Young Planets
The Radcliffe Research Partnership program gives undergraduate students a chance to learn from some of the world's best minds—and puts money in their pockets in the process.
Women Making Democracy in the Arab World and Elsewhere
A dramatic reading of Ibrahim El-Husseini’s play Commedia Al-Ahzaan (A Comedy of Sorrows) opened Radcliffe’s 2012 gender conference, “Women Making
In the 1950's, Radcliffe College shared only course instruction with Harvard. Nancy Fisher '54 sits in on a lecture with Harvard men. Courtesy Radcliffe Archives, Schlesinger LibraryThe Complicated History of Women at Harvard
At the Radcliffe Institute, historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz says that although there's much to celebrate about women at Harvard today, there's still much to change and to worry about.
Astronomer Stefi Baum and systems biologist Pamela Silver. Photo by Dan CreightonRadcliffe on the Road
At events for alumnae/i and supporters in California and New York City, the Radcliffe Institute showcased the array of work by present and past fellows in science and the arts.
New York City Learns How “Radcliffe Writes”
Three Institute fellows—a historian, a journalist, and a fiction writer—gathered to present their work to a group of Radcliffe alumnae at the Harvard Club of New York City. Each fellow represented a different approach to the written word.
Newsmakers Summer 2012
Radcliffe Affiliates Making their Mark
