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AT ODDS I was dismayed to see the Faculty of Arts and Sciences mounting their protests against President Lawrence H. Summers’s suggestion...
July-August 2005
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Deep into Sleep
Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist...
Elizabeth Bishop
By the time Elizabeth Bishop settled into her apartment on the Boston waterfront, in recently refurbished Lewis Wharf, it was 1974. She was 63...
India's Promise
Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 percent annually for the past...
Mad for Degas
In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
A Taste for Extinction
The island nation of Madagascar boasts not only one of the highest levels of species diversity on earth, but also unparalleled rates of...
The Patent Trap
Patentsa form of governmental protection to prevent ideas from being sold or used by someone else without permissionhave a long and...
Society's Casino
In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik...
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A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized...
Honoris Causa
Two women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 354th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the...
Commencement Confetti
NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out...
Harvard Local,
In her Senior English Address, “Perfect Imperfection,” Alicia J. Menendez ’05, whose concentration was women, gender, and...
Global,
In his afternoon address, President Lawrence H. Summers focused on “perhaps the defining development of our time,” the...
and Cultural
Before he narrated the poetic adventures of Mahalia Mouse, the female rodent who became a scientist (rather than the subject of a scientific...
Also Heard
[T]he fourth and last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to...
Engineering Equity
The reports of the Task Force on Women Faculty (WF) and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), released on May 16, share a...
Thomas W. Lentz
In the early 1980s, when Thomas W. Lentz was earning a Ph.D. at Harvard by becoming an expert on Islamic art—Persian painting in...
Debating Gender
Following President Lawrence H. Summers’s comments last January on women’s interests and aptitudes as they might affect careers in...
Yesterday's News
1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting...
Scientific Ambitions
Preliminary land-use plans for campus development in Allston have yet to be subjected to public review and comment (see “Allston Options:...
Maxine Kumin
On Arts First weekend, poet Maxine Kumin ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the...
Recruiting Redux
The Supreme Court is set to consider how military recruiting may be conducted on campuses when the armed forces’ “Don’t ask...
Curriculum Queries
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted much of its last three regular spring business meetings to reports on the undergraduate...
Allston Options: Up for Discussion
Calling “effective transportation” the “most critical” of the issues Harvard faces as it plans for expansion into...
Enlivening Science
An expressed aim of the curriculum review is to assure College graduates’ scientific literacy in the twenty-first century. Summarizing the...
Where the Students Are
At each Commencement, Harvard confers 6,500 or so degrees, on everyone from College students who have navigated their undergraduate years to...
Aftershocks
In the wake of its March 15 vote that it “lacks confidence” in his leadership (see “At Odds,” May-June, page 55), the...
Honor Roll
Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile...
A Notable Dean
The appointment of Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)...
Approaching Africa
Since 1969, Harvard has had a Committee on African Studies (CAS), an interdisciplinary group of scholars who sponsor seminars and fund summer...
Brevia
University news of the past two months
Splendid Spring Sports
Crew The heavyweight men won their third consecutive national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) regatta in Camden, New...
An American in Paris
More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two...
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finallyfinallyI am hitting my stride. “In...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Life at the Epicenter
Bioethicists like R. Alta Charo ’79 operate where scientific innovation butts up against cultural ethos. As a professor of law and...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Medalists
Each June, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the...
Harvard Medalists
Three alumni were publicly thanked by President Lawrence H. Summers for their exceptional service to the University during the HAA’s...
Election Results
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at the...
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Physics concentrator...
Largiantur Donatores
The University had received $493 million in donations through May 31 of the fiscal year, according to University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg...
The Exemplars
Philip Keene Photograph by Jim Harrison Bertha Offenbach Fineberg Photograph by Jim Harrison The oldest graduates of Harvard and...
Schooner Skipper
Nautical educator Roger Taylor Benjamin Brewster / Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Multifaceted boating enthusiast Roger Taylor...
Foreign Service
Military physicians (left to right) Eldon Bell, Miguel Palos, Robert Yarrish, and (below) Graham Hoffman Courtesy of Miguel Palos...
