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  1.25.23
  
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  8.30.22
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  1.13.23
  
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  12.15.22
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  January-February 2023
  
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  January-February 2023
  
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  January-February 2023
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  January-February 2023
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The Progress of the Disciplines

Leading professors on the future of their fields

September-October 2011

Pamela Silver

Pamela Silver

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

For Harvard’s 375th anniversary, leading professors predict the future of their fields:

Biology in This Century, by Pamela A. Silver

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century, by Nitin Nohria

Reading Is Elemental, by Helen Vendler

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century, by Cherry A. Murray

Sciences Still Young, by Edward L. Glaeser

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

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