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No Sweat
… ’Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions, like getting into … progress with 3D and video renderings to give you a sense of your dream gym’s form and function, including a full suite of products, from state-of-the-art cardio equipment to barre …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Hydrogen-Powered Future
… road winding between horse pastures, cross a small bridge, then climb a gravel lane, and you can reach a house that seems to defy the laws of physics. About 70,000 visitors have flocked here since it … starting projects with such determinedly sea-level enterprises as multinational corporations, real-estate developers, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Beyond the SAT
… Nicholas Lemann ’76, dean of the Columbia Journalism School from 2003 to 2013 ( “The … (1999). A succinct new work, Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing …
Issue: September-October 2024
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
Stealing the Catalog along with the Coins
… "Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins," wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in an August 1974 report to …
Off the Shelf
… Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government , by Charles Fried, Beneficial professor of law (Norton, $24.95). Fried assesses individual …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Stable Door
… In the era of the robbery, night watchmen at the Fogg and the campus … A guy wants a painting up on the wall that says, 'In Memory of Dear Mother Mabel'; he doesn't want his money to go to a …
Harvard in Russa: Conflicts of Interest
… The key role that the Harvard Institute for International … a $14-million grant to HIID, pending the conclusion of an investigation into whether two leading figures in the … the public trust by using their positions for private profit. On June 6 USAID canceled the grant and said it would …
Reconfiguring the Curriculum
… Much work on refashioning the undergraduate curriculum remains for the next academic year, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded its spring meetings by … their concentrations, and new options for minor fields of study, encouraging them to investigate diverse …
Issue: July-August 2006
Reinventing the Classroom
… At a time of rising interest in new forms of teaching to effect greater learning, Harvard Magazine … a new course, and what he learned from teaching it. ~The Editors Computer science is booming at Harvard (and …
Issue: September-October 2012
Life: The Edited Version
… Scientists have made stunning progress in their ability to decode genomes; the past several years have … them in specific ways. Researchers led by George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School , and Joe Jacobson, …
Issue: November-December 2011
The Family Silver
… One could call these ceremonial spoons the “family silver of Northwest … says Bill Holm, curator emeritus at the Burke Museum of Indian Art in Seattle. “Our families’ histories are …
Issue: July-August 2007
Seeing the Field
… Field hockey, though relatively unknown in the United States, is a global game, and Francine Polet … says Polet, “so distributing the ball has always been one of the things I feel is my strength.” She plays sweeper, the … a vital role on “short corners,” scoring chances that arise when the referee calls a minor foul near the net. Major …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard School of Public Health
… with a Commencement Eve reception for degree candidates and their families and friends on Wednesday, May 26, from 4 to 7 … is open to the entire HSPH community. The Harvard School of Public Health Commencement festivities begin at noon on … Koh, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The ceremony, which will also …
The Climate Connection between Campus and Home
… Often, when we think about the reach of the climate crisis on campus, we think about protests, …
Issue: May-June 2023