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The “Messy Experiment”
… scientist Mary Ingraham Bunting unveiled her vision for the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. Newly … president. Change was in the air, but Bunting was one of the foresighted few who realized women should be part of that changing equation. To provide an intellectual …
Issue: May-June 2020
A “Declaration of Love and Guts”
… holding cartoonish blue firearms. He’s dressed in a mash up of what looks like U.S. cavalry pants, Plains Indian and … a riotous purple, polka-dotted background. Like many of the 30 color-splashed paintings in “T.C. Cannon: At the Edge … influenced the New Indian Art movement, and then surprised those he knew by joining the U.S. Army, ultimately …
Issue: May-June 2018
Your Take: Asking Questions Outside the Classroom
… In the May-June issue, Undergraduate columnist Madeleine … are few opportunities. Were conversations about the meaning of life part of your Harvard experience? Do you think Harvard should do …
Conflicts of Interest, Revisited
… its policies governing faculty members’ financial conflicts of interest and commitment (COI). This is the first such comprehensive revision since 2004 (see … public confidence in the integrity of the scientific enterprise”—no minor feat given heightened public concern over …
Issue: September-October 2010
A Revolution in Corporate Reporting
… Gary Kelly, CEO of Southwest Airlines, is famous for saying, “I want one version of the truth.” The philosophy behind this simple statement …
Issue: March-April 2011
The Man in the Top Hat
… One of my favorite parts of Commencement is the tall man in the top hat. For many who attend Harvard’s graduation, the …
Harvard Endowment Increases Modestly to $37.1 Billion During Early Stages of Overhaul
… Performance highlights for fiscal 2017: •The endowment’s value stood at $37.1 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2017, an increase of $1.4 … and the HMC board of directors. Outsiders may be surprised by the scope of the operating changes he reported: The …
Off the Shelf
… Inside the Hot Zone, by Mark G. Kortepeter ’83, M.P.H. ’95 (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska, $34.95). Now a public-health professor at the … at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google analytics enterprise—a Rhodes Scholar, and former dean of the University of …
Issue: May-June 2020
Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
… by adjusting ventilation rates in its workplace. On paper, the outcome would seem overwhelmingly positive: fewer … Joseph Allen and his team at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) describe as the potentially serious … both energy-efficient and healthy,” says Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science. In 2015, his team …
Issue: May-June 2017
The Graduate School Agenda
… Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) spelled out … and many social-science students pursue a "lonelier enterprise," first acquiring a broad body of knowledge before …
The Uncertain Art
… doubt." Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. … a little trepidation, wondering what new situation will arise during that shift. Our culture has difficulty accepting …
Issue: November-December 2002
From the Archives: The Talent for Aging Well
… burdensome, especially for those who are fortunate, since the 2017 round of tax cuts. Aging has become inevitable, too … exceptionally high intelligence. (The three projects comprise the Study of Adult Development, which Vaillant directs, …
A “Pirates of Penzance” Party
… Theatergoers on their way into the Loeb Drama Center’s … already in progress before the opening curtain: the cast of the innovative production of The Pirates of Penzance at the ART wearing leis, shorts, …
The MCZ at 150
… By 1856, Swiss naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz had amassed all the necessities for a new museum on campus. The funds had been charmed out of the coffers of wealthy Bostonians. The collections, …
Tale of a Hamptons Town and a Troubled Filmmaker
… The Boston Globe recently ran an insightful review of The Windmill Movie , a film about the life of Richard Rogers ’67, Ed.M. ’70. As the review notes, …