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Phi Beta Kappa Speakers Don’t Shrink from the News
… during a standing ovation for President Alan M. Garber. At the top of his oration, Rakesh Khurana, the Danoff dean of Harvard … “legitimacy crisis” and the real problems that give rise to it. “As we stand up for our principles, we also need …
Small Talk, From Afar
… three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood … is trying to revive the Harvard Wireless Club, a group of amateur (“ham”) radio enthusiasts. Unlike the student DJs … students of yore—plopped down before an array of antiquated machines, bathed in the subtle aroma of cigarettes smoked …
Issue: May-June 2025
River Mid-Rise
… The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard … Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2003
School of Public Health Graduates Hear Blunt Critiques of Trump
… Less than a week after a devastating wave of federal funding cuts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), which saw more than 130 researchers …
The Authoritarian Reflex
… days after Donald Trump surged through Super Tuesday toward the Republican presidential nomination, Harvard political … point. In a survey from 2011—well before the candidate’s rise—44 percent of Americans without college degrees approved of having a …
Issue: March-April 2020
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
… The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth … (at one point being denied entry into France) informed some of his decisions as the University’s leader. As he told the … they spoke passionately about the dangers ahead. The rise of antisemitism worldwide was on everyone’s mind. As …
The Gravity of Glacial Melt
… In the popular imagination, sea levels rise in response to a … many scientists also assumed the same thing. That’s when professor of geophysics Jerry X. Mitrovica (then at the …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Digitally Enhanced Rise of PSY
… Church that he was “shocked” and humbled to be invited to the podium. But the “Gangnam Style” pop star hardly seemed nervous, riffing about his meteoric rise to stardom for more than an hour, which forced a … his lyrics, recalled attending Boston University School of Management in the mid 1990s, where he was known by the …
Computing in the Classroom
… On November 11, 1953, psychology professor B.F. Skinner sat in a fourth-grade math class, … It was Parents Day at his daughter Deborah’s school. The lesson seemed grossly inefficient: students proceeded … for the Ludic Century,” Zimmerman argues that the rise of computers parallels the resurgent cultural interest …
Issue: March-April 2015
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 … beat humans in Jeopardy, chess, and Go, it should be no surprise that they will soon be able to do many of our jobs as …
Issue: May-June 2016
The Rise of Color
… The 1934 Rockefeller Plaza exhibition of advertising and … page 84). The High Art of Photographic Advertising, a reprise of the 1934 exhibition, is on view at Baker Library, …
Issue: July-August 2010
At Risk
… Note to Readers: In light of the federal government’s announced intention to reduce … Harvard and Tishman Speyer, developer of the private enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston, on leased University …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… During the 374th Commencement this morning, Harvard will confer … Richard Alley, a glaciologist expert in the impacts of ice sheets on climate and sea level; Esther Duflo, a … sheets and mountain glaciers are contributing to sea-level rise, and Alley is a leader in figuring out how fast they …
Housing in the Climate Crosshairs
… America’s critical housing affordability crisis . The U.S. home price index jumped 46 percent from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to last year. Add to that a budding … with unprecedented housing availability and affordability crises like Los Angeles.” Spending on disaster repairs has …
Engines of Change
… Has barbed wire ever been portrayed more glamorously than in the prettily framed advertising poster above for the I.L. Ellwood Company? A fence of the material, built to protect one’s livestock from … was complete. The editors of the exhibition sum up: “The rise of modern American capitalism, enabled by the expansion …
Issue: January-February 2014