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A New Green Revolution?
By 2050, somewhere between nine and 11 billion people will be living on the planet. What will everyone eat? More than half the calories consumed by humans come directly from plants, mainly from grains such as rice, wheat, and corn. But agricultural yields …
Issue: March-April 2018
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Executive-ed Gateway In early June, Harvard Business School dedicated the Chao Center, its new gateway for the extensive executive-education facilities at the eastern end of its campus. The facility replaces Kresge Hall, and serves as a convening and …
Issue: September-October 2016
This Thing We Did
Editor’s note: On the eve of Commencement, former Ledecky Fellow Noah Pisner ’14 recalls his last night at the College. We spend the evening after graduation in the Mac Quad: ill, inebriated, nerves webbing up our throats, incapacitated by a sense of …
The Undergraduate: Outsmarting Our Smartphones
One sketch from the pilot episode of Portlandia , Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s eclectic homage to the niche (read: hipster) culture of Portland, Oregon, has always resonated with me. Surrounded by an iPad, Macbook, and iPhone, Armisen becomes …
Issue: May-June 2015
Cherry Murray Steps Down as Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) since mid 2009 , announced today that she would relinquish the post at the end of 2014. She intends to return to regular service on the faculty, according to the news …
Post-Regulatory School Reform
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States was trying to come to grips with a serious education crisis. The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a many-decade effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had …
Issue: September-October 2016
Football: Harvard 32, Brown 22
If one measure of a good football team is being able to win tough conference games on the road, then the 2016 edition of the Harvard Crimson took a step toward being a good football team this past Saturday at sun-splashed Brown Stadium. Using a balanced …
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Upsizing Samuels & Associates, the Harvard-designated developer for Barry’s Corner (at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue) in Allston, in December filed its proposal for a residential and retail “commons” with 325 rental …
Issue: March-April 2013
Letters from Readers
Self-Fashioning I enjoyed Nannerl O. Keohane’s “Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude” (September-October, page 42) with a friend and fellow Harvard graduate (class of 2003). We thought Keohane nicely described the tension between the life of action and …
Issue: November-December 2013
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Niemans of Note The seventy-fifth class of Nieman Fellows —24 journalists chosen to study at Harvard during the 2012-2013 academic year—will include two Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation . The new partnership between the Nieman Foundation …
Issue: July-August 2012
Imagining Harvard at 400
Five younger faculty members convened at the first Conversations @ FAS panel of 2012, to discuss what the University might become when it turns 400 in 2036. In so doing, they pursued a similar venture to that of a distinguished group of alumni who …
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That Voice, Stilled The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, who had suffered a heart attack and subsequent stroke in December, as previously reported, died on February 28. His death …
Issue: May-June 2011
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After the ICU What a relief it was to read “What It Means to Be OK,” concerning Daniela Lamas and her post ICU care practice, by Lydialyle Gibson (January-February, page 38). Although I had found website help for my West Nile encephalitis recovery and …
Issue: March-April 2019
One Small Step for Music
In the summer of 1977, NASA rocketed two spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit. Their mission: explore the unexplored. NASA had already been to the moon; with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, its Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted to push beyond the outer planets and …
Issue: July-August 2020
Strategic Planning
Naomi Bashkansky ’25 could spend hours at a chessboard pondering the perfect move. But as a child playing in competitive tournaments with time limits, such painstaking deliberation wasn’t possible—often to her frustration. During one match when she was …
Issue: March-April 2024