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Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within the Next 20 Years”…“Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work by 2045”…“White House Predicts Robots May Take Over Many Jobs That Pay $20 Per Hour”…“Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour”…“Why the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Puritan Party Time
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and here’s another, Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience, coming in May. The author is Andrew Schlesinger ’70, son and …
Issue: May-June 2005
Presidential Portrait
On the chill, blustery afternoon of May 1, a piece of Harvard’s living history lit up the Faculty Room in University Hall. The occasion was the unveiling of the portrait of Neil L. Rudenstine, who served as the University’s twenty-sixth president from …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard Medalists
Five alumni—Charles J. “Charlie” Egan Jr. ’54, Michael E.A. Gellert ’53, Thomas W. Lentz Jr., Ph.D. ’85, Sandra Ohrn Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the University” on May 28, …
Issue: July-August 2015
Realities of Empire
Empires fascinate. Not only scholars, but writers of fiction, geographers, sociologists, videogame and movie producers. We historians ask why and how they are they formed: by conquest, surely, though sometimes by marriage or alliances. How are they …
Issue: May-June 2022
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
Emerging evidence shows that exposure to air pollution increases the incidence and progression of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurocognitive diseases , according to Francesca Dominici. She spoke as part of a panel on how air pollution affects the …
Music and Language, Reconciled
Readers of the New York Review of Books who are also lovers of music—and who have reached a certain age—will know that music-lovers in the past have been able to read the writings of some musical titans who also were superb prose stylists. I think in …
Issue: March-April 2022
Lizabeth Cohen Appointed Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean
Jones professor of American studies Lizabeth Cohen will become interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , starting July 1, President Drew Faust announced today . Cohen specializes in twentieth-century American social and political …
Re-naming Lowell House?
As they prepared to assume the faculty deanship of the renovated Lowell House last summer, David Laibson and Nina Zipser announced they would relocate certain portraits—notably that of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president from 1909 to 1933 , …
Life After Brain Injury
Carolyn Gold’s memoir chronicling her long, slow recovery from a brain injury caused by West Nile encephalitis begins with a mosquito bite that she does not remember. It most likely happened sometime in August 2017, while Gold, M.Ed. ’85, was on vacation …
Uncharted Territory
Last winter, thinking about my impending graduation, I called my friend James Quillen ’22 to get his advice about applying to the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. On the weekend we decided to speak, I had a meeting here and a deadline there, but James …
Issue: July-August 2023
Rethinking Libraries for a Digital Future
Harvard is rethinking libraries, librarians, and collection priorities, as described in this magazine’s May-June feature article Gutenberg 2.0. And it is actively digitizing its holdings to make them available to audiences within and beyond the Harvard …
Virtually Perfect
Summer is different this year thanks to COVID-19. But even though we can’t gather, shop, or dine in person doesn’t mean we can’t keep busy. We just have to be creative. These slower, languid days are ideal for home improvements. If you’ve decided to …
Issue: July-August 2020
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gregory Kristof , of Scarsdale, New York, and Kirkland House, a philosophy concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholar …
Issue: July-August 2015
Cambridge 02138
Hating Harvard Congratulations to the editors for featuring “ Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard ” (March-April, page 26), and congratulations to Derek Bok for his contribution to a much-needed public discussion. His thoughts are well balanced and are …
Issue: May-June 2024