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Ethics and Human Cells
“Harvard has been heavily involved in promoting regulatory oversight” of the use of human embryonic stem cells in research, says Insoo Hyun, director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at Boston’s Museum of Science and an affiliate of …
Issue: January-February 2024
Space Architect
Constance Adams ’86 was interviewing for a job in Houston in 1995 when she decided to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “We were touring the site,” she remembers, “and a calm voice was explaining that one day, we would be going to Mars. Of course I sent …
Issue: January-February 2011
A Slim Margin
One evening in mid January, Zena Edosomwan ’17, the star center of Harvard men’s basketball, stood at the free-throw line for what seemed like a low-stakes attempt. Harvard was playing Ryerson, a Canadian team added to the schedule primarily as a tune-up …
Issue: March-April 2016
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Home Games
Seniors Evan Cummins , Agunwa Okolie, and Patrick Steeves have played in some of the biggest games in Harvard men’s basketball history: the program’s first victory in the NCAA tournament (a 68-62 upset of New Mexico in 2013), the near-upset of Michigan …
“Leaving a Legacy”
On a late January Saturday in 2013, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed visiting Dartmouth College by 10 points with just under two minutes to go, and co-captain Christian Webster ’13 thought, “We cannot lose this game.” A loss at home to …
"Mr. Clean Vegetables John"
Expelled from Harvard in 1969 for participating in the University Hall takeover, John Berlow ’71 traveled the world, living in Israel, Canada, and West Africa. But he did not go to Vietnam until 2000. “In ’69 I was an angry young man,” he says. “I am not …
Issue: May-June 2010
Football: Harvard 40, Cornell 3
With four minutes and 54 seconds remaining in the first quarter this past Saturday at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, Cornell’s Joe Pierik booted a 33-yard field goal. By jumping ahead 3-0, the Big Red had accomplished what no other opponent had …
Admissions, through the Ages
Eight years out of Yale—after stints as a U.S. Marine platoon leader and a teacher—Dwight D. Miller joined the Harvard College admissions office in July 1967. That was before the merger with Radcliffe; before the Supreme Court first ruled on affirmative …
Issue: September-October 2019
“My Name is Bono, and I Am A Rock Star”
Graduating seniors chose U2 lead singer Bono to give their Class Day address. Born Paul Hewson, he allegedly picked up his nickname from Bono Vox, bad Latin for "good voice." He spoke of how he reached a new personal level of "unhip." Excerpts follow. …
Seeing Allston Whole
As Harvard pursues ambitious development projects in Allston, residents fear that their neighborhood—which they describe as uniquely hospitable to families, immigrants, and artists—will come to look a lot like Boston’s Seaport district: a sterile …
“Carving Out Time”
In a new exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, “LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time” (on view until July 21), the painter and printmaker LaToya M. Hobbs challenges the assumption that motherhood and artistry are inherently at odds. The centerpiece of the exhibition …
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For Santiago's Poor, Housing with Dignity
Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in marker: Se venden helados (ice cream for sale). Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this …
Issue: January-February 2009
The SIGnboard
If you seek fellow alumni who share your interests, remember that the Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs)—“any collection of Harvard University alumni who actively engage in communicating and/or gathering …
Issue: January-February 2009
A Feel for the Water
Yale was determined. They were heartily sick of Harvard’s ownership of the annual Harvard-Yale crew race, where the Bulldogs’ only win this century came in 2007. Indeed, the late Harry Parker, arguably the greatest rowing coach of all time , amassed a …
Issue: May-June 2015
Royall House and Slave Quarters
I saac Royall Sr. built a fortune on his Antigua sugar plantation and returned to Boston in 1737 to settle into an opulent Georgian mansion in what’s now Medford, Massachusetts. To operate the surrounding 500-acre farm, enormous by colonial-era standards, …
Issue: September-October 2020