Harvard's First Rube Goldberg Day

VIDEO: Dynamo hosts students from Harvard and MIT in its first ever Rube Goldberg competition. Within a four hour time limit, the students used the items at hand in order to see who could create the most impressive machine that could pop a balloon in the tradition of the famous cartoonist, Rube Goldberg. Here is the winning result.

THE BALCONY at Harvard

VIDEO Arts Preview: HRDC stages Jean Genet's THE BALCONY. Opens November 12th on the Loeb Mainstage.

Students at the Humanities Center’s “Teenage Wastelands” event on September 29 discussed works such as “The Hunger Games” that are not typically scrutinized with an academic eye.

Week in Photos: Arts (10/05/2010)

Week in Photos: Arts (10/05/2010)

Professor Linda Schlossberg, instructor of the popular Chick Lit course, discusses literature for the young adult reader and the difficulties of early adolescence.

Today in Photos (09/30/10)

An exhibit of original works by photographer C. E. Morse opened yesterday at the Mather Three Columns Galleria.

Roving Reporter

The ancient Aztec recipe for hot chocolate gets its unexpected kick from the addition of chili peppers.

Week in Photos: Arts (09/21/2010)

Week in Photos: Arts (09/21/2010)

Catherine Lord ‘71, a visual artist, curator and professor of studio art at the Univeristy of Chicaogo seen here in conversation with actor John Lithgow ‘67, was honored yesterday with the 2010 Harvard Arts Medal Award.

Novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi speaks about his writing and filmmaking, in both French and Persian, in Fong auditorium yesterday. Rahimi is creative adviser to Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media group.