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Mimicking Organs
Could tiny , translucent chips that mimic human organs replace animal testing for drug development? That reality may be coming, according to researchers at the Wyss Institute who have developed organs-on-chips: flexible polymer microchips (about the size …
Issue: January-February 2016
Setting the Stage
L ondon’s Chelsea Theatre can be found off a main road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a neighborhood where household incomes are typically three times the national average. By contrast, the theater itself is tucked into the World’s End …
Issue: May-June 2020
Off the Shelf
Picturing Frederick Douglass, by John Stauffer, professor of English and of African and African American studies, Zoe Trodd, Ph.D. ’09, and Celeste-Marie Bernier (Liveright, $49.95). An “illustrated biography” built around a sumptuous catalog focused on …
Issue: November-December 2015
Disturbed, Not Surprised: Students Respond to Sexual-Conduct Survey
Undergraduates expressed grave concerns about the widespread nonconsensual sexual contact on campus reported in a survey released on September 21 , and about a potential disconnect between Harvard’s administration and students—issues that surfaced quickly …
The Immunity Engineer
One story David Mooney tells starts with a slug. “This slug does a really good job of creating a mucus that allows it to stick really tightly, so predators can’t just peel it off and eat it,” he says. The mucus, a marvelous material, turns out to consist …
Issue: January-February 2025
Not Holding Out for a Hero
Cliff Chiang ’96 can still name the first four comics he ever read— Uncanny X-Men, Alpha Flight, Cloak & Dagger, and Fantastic Four —the adventures of caped crusaders and mutant teens which, in the summer of 1983, he pored over in the back seat on a …
Issue: September-October 2015
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
Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Neil L. Rudenstine and Robert E. Rubin '60, chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup Inc. and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. For …
Making Organizations Moral
In the early 2000s, a riptide of business scandals toppled Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom. In the aftermath, says Straus professor of business administration Max Bazerman , “society turned to professional schools” to ask why their graduates were …
Issue: November-December 2014
“We Will All Be Arguing”
During this semester ’s opening exercises, University leaders were at great pains to encourage the Harvard community to live up to its ideal of forthright discussion, at a time when the wider society seems to be losing the habit. Appearing at these …
Lydialyle Gibson , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: November-December 2022
Service, and Families
Alongside the Memorial Church —built as a shrine to the Harvard dead of World War I, on the campus of one of the nation’s very first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps chapters—families, friends, alumni, and spectators gathered on Wednesday morning to …
Celebrating Cinema
Four nights a week , anyone can saunter down to the lowest level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, buy a ticket, and slide into a cushy seat at the Harvard Film Archive’s (HFA) cinémathèque to view “rare and scholarly works of art, films that …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Best of Times…
Harvard’s annual financial report, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 (released in late October), was full of good tidings: operating revenue up 5.6 percent (more than a quarter-billion dollars), to nearly $4.8 billion; operating expenses up 5.3 …
Issue: January-February 2017
Ski All About It
Appalachian Mountain Club 603-466-2727 www.outdoors.org/lodging/mainelodges/lyford/lodge-to-lodge-skiing.cfm Natural snow and 80 miles of groomed trails (without set tracks) run between and around two lodges, Little Lyford and Gorman Chairback. (A third …
Issue: November-December 2013
An Extraordinary Season
Regardless of your distance from greater Boston, you likely know that Harvard slogged through a semester of record-breaking—and patience-testing—winter weather. The type of meteorological event immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson in “The Snow-Storm” as …
Issue: May-June 2015