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Mapping the Human Brain
Might memories and habitual actions be hardwired into the brain’s physical structure? Knowles professor of molecular and cellular biology Jeff Lichtman thinks it’s likely. He and colleagues spent the past decade analyzing one cubic millimeter of cerebral …
Issue: September-October 2024
VES’s Valedictory
Harvard’s department of visual and environmental studies (VES) will emerge, like a butterfly from a chrysalis, with a new identity better reflecting what it actually does , if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) embraces a proposal to change its name …
The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
At a time when less than 50 percent of Americans grow up to earn more than their parents, how can higher education help move the needle, especially for low-income students? This was the overarching question in the Radcliffe Day panel discussion moderated …
Summers to Direct Center for Business and Government
As reported , Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers has concluded his service as director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and has resumed his academic position at the University . He will be based at the Harvard …
HAA Award Winners
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities. This year’s awards ceremony took place on October 14, during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Six …
Issue: November-December 2010
The Enigmatic Mr. Putin
Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris Yeltsin called a press conference on August 9, 1999, to introduce Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as his choice for prime minister of Russia and as his heir when a presidential …
Issue: May-June 2007
“Like Driving at Night”
It may seem odd that Maggie Shipstead ’05, whose third novel, Great Circle , arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. The current Los Angeles resident—born in Orange County, but peripatetic for a few years in-between—remembers reading …
Issue: May-June 2021
The Teddy Bear Effect
Most Fortune 500 CEOs—roughly 95 percent of them, in fact—are white men. Line up headshots of these leaders and plenty of pronounced chins, square jaws, salt-and-pepper hair, and other physical features suggesting maturity, masculinity, and gravitas are …
Issue: January-February 2019
In the Eye of the Storm
Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost decade"--dating from the early 1990s, when the country's seemingly invincible economy began to derail--shows no sign of ending. The high public-approval ratings for wavy-haired maverick prime …
Issue: November-December 2001
Clarifying the Rules of Protest
In an email to the Harvard community on Friday afternoon, Interim President Alan M. Garber and Harvard’s deans released a statement clarifying University policy regarding “the guarantees and limitations” in campus protest and dissent. The clarification, …
Bearing Witness to Terrorism
On Monday night , students clipped on name tags, shuffled through metal detectors, and placed their phones in yellow manila envelopes, bracing themselves to witness unfathomable horrors. In Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall, around 150 Harvard affiliates …
Unveiled
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and indulged his passion hugely. Yet, from what one may know of him, he seems in certain aspects of his life a pathetic …
Issue: March-April 2003
Well Done
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. This year’s recipients were to be honored on October 12 during the HAA board of directors’ annual fall meeting …
Issue: November-December 2009
Sagittarian Students
No shaky hands, please: stability is crucial. Three stabilizer rods, in fact, are attached to the center of your bow to steady it, like a tightrope walker’s pole. Take a nice, comfortable stance, feet perpendicular to the target. Pick up the bow, then tie …
Issue: November-December 2009
Josiah Meadows ’23 Latin Salutatory
The Value of a Harvard Education Josiah Meadows ’23, Latin Salutatory DE FRVCTIBVS INSTITVTIONIS HARVARDIANÆ ORATIO SALVTATORIA CANTABRIGIÆ NOV-ANGLORVM IN COMITIIS ACADEMICIS HABITA A. D. VIII. KAL. IVN. ANN. DOM. MMXXIII. REIPVB. AMERICANÆ CCXLVII. …