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September-October 2005
Features
Exiting Iraq
I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:...
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...
Caves
Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s...
The Aging Enigma
Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, neurodegeneration, reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of...
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Too Much Sunscreen?
For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...
Sonatas from Syndromes
In a biography of composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Richard Kogan ’77, M.D. ’81, found startling episodes like this: “In a...
Cheering Chow
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s...
Self-Esteem, Real and Phony
When Tom Brady joined the New England Patriots as a sixth-round draft pick in 2000, he told the team’s owner, Bob Kraft, “I’m...
Tsunami-Safe(r) Housing
Last December’s devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lankabut walls perpendicular to the shoreline...
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Deep Dig
This enormous excavation might tempt Virginia Lee Burton, who lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when she wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam...
Diversity Director
Evelynn M. Hammonds has become Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She will direct implementation...
"I can no longer support the president"
Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks...
A Sensitive Census
The revelation last autumn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had made offers of tenured professorships to only four women during...
Allston Options and Actions
With a near-term goal of establishing an expanded campus footprint across the Charles River during the next decade, Harvard released on June 2 a...
Catherine Dulac
“The sense of smell was very poorly understood,” says professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, until a seminal...
A Robust Decade at the Business School
Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idahohe became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call...
A New Dean at HBS
Jay O. Light Harvard Business School Jay O. Light, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. professor of business administration, became acting dean of...
University Housing on the Rise
More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...
Yesterday's News
1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard...
A Humanist Who Knows Corn Flakes
Homi Bhabha tells a story about corn flakes to illustrate the relevance of the humanities to international commerce. “For many years in...
Provost Positions
The provost’s office (www.provost.harvard.edu) continues to add staff to cover more areas of University-wide planning and coordination...
The Shrouds of Cambridge
Perhaps the best business on campus this summer was the rental concession for scaffolding and the rolls of plastic mesh used to wrap building...
Congo Report
The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to...
Scanning Species
On June 26, 1974, merchandise tracking was revolutionized with a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The gum package, today...
Brevia
Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of...
Women in the Sciences
In its report issued in May, the University's Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering dramatically highlighted the "leaky...
Head Booter
Grinning, the new head coach of women’s soccer, 29-year-old Stephanie Erickson, says she has friends “who would call me a typical...
Shielding the Goal
“It’s such a crazy position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team...
The Long Goodbye
On a rainy summer’s night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner...
2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior...
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The Press Professor
Nicholas Lemann ’76 seems an unlikely candidate for the role of higher-education reformer. Best known as a columnist and Washington...
Harvard's "Wider Communities"
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Yuki Moore Laurenti ’79, plans to expand on the organization’s...
The Corporate Empires
Once we were The Corporate Empires. Today, Bob does fiber-optics research in Arizona. Chester works at the U.S. Patent Office, refereeing...
Hiram Hunn Awards
Six alumni are to receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of...
Alumni Gatherings
Alumni colleges scheduled for this fall center on South Asia, career tactics, and the historic role of women during wartime. The events...
Hot Off the Press!
The University has printed 11,000 new alumni directories, most of which were scheduled to be shipped in mid August. The hardback volume lists...
Staying in Touch
As of August 1, users of Post.Harvardthe University’s on-line alumni communitymay note some changes that make the system...
Aloian Scholars
Navin Kumar ’06, of Kirkland House, and Joshua Reyes ’05, of Leverett House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars...
