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As a clinical and research psychologist who has been doing research on these subjects for more than 20 years, I wish to add a few important points
September-October 2006
History and Democracy
Editor’s note: Introducing himself as a Princeton professor wearing a Yale gown as he prepared to address a Harvard audience, historian...
Edwin Ginn
There will be no need of great national armies,” Edwin Ginn declaimed in 1901, once an international force controlled by a league of...
An Education in Ethics
Last January 13, in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began taking his students through the quaint details of a real-estate...
“The Grand Wake for Harvard Indifference”
At noon on November 16, 1938, some 500 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed Emerson Hall to express their outrage at Kristallnacht, as the...
Summers in Summary
Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Latinos Nix Violence
First-generation immigrants are more likely to be law-abiding than third-generation Americans of similar socioeconomic status, reports Robert...
“Alternative” Placebos
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning...
Prenatal Competition?
Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 and 49, according...
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• Education Executive • Harvard Portrait • Harvard by the Numbers • Sweeping Change for Science • Map...
The Pulse of a New Medical Curriculum
When he found out he would spend his third year of medical school based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, rather than rotating among...
Doctoring 101
What does it mean to be a physician? How do I work as part of a team? Which career options lie ahead? What’s it like to watch a patient...
Education Executive
Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) new dean, has already shown she can handle controversy with poise. Three...
Barbara Ruhs
“I was a fat kid,” says Barbara Ruhs. “My sister was a French fry, and I was a beachball. I always wanted to be a French...
Gifts and Endowments, 2005
The rich get richer, at least as measured by annual giving to Harvard’s schools, compared to their existing endowments, as shown in...
Sweeping Change for Science
The University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering released on July 14 a preliminary report outlining a comprehensive and sweeping...
Map Miscreant
Edward Forbes Smiley III, of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was caught in June 2005 leaving Yale’s Beinecke Library with five of...
Supporting Young Scientists
What does it mean to be part of a community of scientists? For Chimdimnma (“Chi-Chi”) Esimai ’08, it meant, for one thing...
Yesterday’s News
1911 Holworthy Hall, refurbished after 99 years, boasts hot-water heating and “shower baths” for the first time. 1916 More than...
A Woman in Science
In my first year of doctoral studies in England, a group of colleagues and I gathered at the pub after work one evening, along with some senior...
Developing a Diverse Faculty
“Harvard is at the beginning of a very long journey,” writes senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity Evelynn M...
“A Physician to Institutions”
Daniel Steiner ’54, LL.B. ’58, died June 11 from complications of chronic lung disease, ending a life of distinguished contributions...
A Living Political Monument
In the years immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, a group of the president’s...
Brevia
College Change Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross announced in mid July that Patricia O’Brien, deputy dean for the past two years and...
Therapeutic Cloning Research Approved
Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston announced on June 6 that they had begun experiments with somatic cell...
Footfalls...and Failures
As the summer months trickle through my sweaty fingers, September looms, bringing with it the first of my Lasts. For the last time, I will...
New Undergraduate Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year will be senior Casey N. Cep and sophomore...
Every Play Breaks a Record
Watch him this fall, if you can: football players of Clifton Dawson’s caliber don’t show up very often in Harvard Stadium. The...
How Not to Fumble
Clifton Dawson has become a standout running back because of what he has done, but he has also excelled at not doing something: fumbling the...
Football: Off-Field Incidents
Head football coach Tim Murphy suspended team captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06 (’07) indefinitely after the Harvard University Police...
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Passionate Concierge
Sophisticated counsel on what to read, view, and hear — just a keystroke away
Vulnerable Sculpture
Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released into the wider world, sculptures may even inhabit the fourth...
Off the Shelf
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson, Ph.D. ’89, executive dean of the Radcliffe...
Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
This may make me a less than completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown seeks to locate a story about a boy of English and Hindu parentage who encounters the word “Eurasian” and asks his...
Maestro Lenny
Leonard Bernstein ’39, D.Mus. ’67, will always be remembered as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, but he was a native New...
Delicious Minimalism
"It’s a food-obsessed culture in Berkeley,” says Mollie Katzen. “It’s a gourmet ghetto—boutique breads and...
A Branch Office Town, But...
In his gift to Red Sox fans, Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (Simon & Schuster, $26), Seth Mnookin...
Suburban Angst, Chinese-Style
Imagine American Beauty with a Chinese-American cast, or Eat Drink Man Woman transplanted from Taipei to an affluent New York suburb: such...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Strangers in the Rangeland
Gilbert Gale uses all tools at his disposal to fight invasive plants in Western grasslands.
History-Making Astronaut
Stephanie Wilson ’88 lived out nearly every child’s fantasy when she soared aloft aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery in...
A Clear Vision
As the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, says the organization must be...
Return to Learn
The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni Association, range from day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of topics. Alumni events offered this fall include
Hiram Hunn Awards
Six alumni receive Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions.
Aloian Scholars
Eric Lesser ’07, of Kirkland House, and Lauren Tulp ’07, of Eliot House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars.
The Opposite of “If”
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Found in the University Archives, a cache of English-department...
