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Intergenerational Social Mobility Varies by Region
… A new study to be published this week summarizes one of the largest efforts yet to examine the social, political, … 40. … Economists ask what factors help children rise out of poverty. … Harvard study finds regional …
Commencement and Alumni Events
… and leading free-press advocate Maria Ressa, co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. See … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: May-June 2024
Orchestrating Attention: “The Most Substantive Work You Can Do”
… to thinking, found her usual refuge, Oakland’s Morcom Amphitheatre of Roses, closed. Instead, as she told viewers tuning into the Graduate School of Design’s online Class Day ceremonies, she began walking …
A Thumb on the Scale
… funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of $60,000 or less, the College estimated that 73.9 percent of matriculants came … in our study told us that he was not at all surprised by the finding that admissions at these highly …
Issue: May-June 2005
Harvard Headlines: John Adams, Brian Casey, Lawrence Summers
… Miscellaneous mentions: In a glowing review of Gustavo Dudamel's debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Times music critic … and sensational era of the 1940s and ’50s, which gave rise to film noir. It is not easy to evoke the milieu of an …
The 40 Percent Solution
… was hurriedly emptied over spring recess in response to the coronavirus, an oddly reconfigured community will … term. The College announced on July 6 that only 40 percent of enrolled students would be in residence for the beginning … and tracing, considering the implications of the current crises for FAS’s next five years of operation, coping with …
Issue: September-October 2020
Pictures in the Square
… There was once a quirky pizza joint called Ruggles that made pizza with cheddar instead of mozzarella—an interesting if not compelling culinary … occupied a small storefront on Mass. Ave. in the heart of Harvard Square. “I have a memory of sitting in Ruggles …
Issue: November-December 2009
Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer Relocates to University of Chicago
… Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer ’85, Ph.D. ’92, who shared the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with two colleagues from MIT for their work on economic development and alleviating global …
The Food Waste Problem
… For one of the world’s leading experts on food waste, visiting a … Stepping into her local Whole Foods, clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib notices something awry in … rising, in face of persistent hunger and worsening climate crises. In September 2015, the United States declared its …
Issue: November-December 2021
Off the Shelf
… by Katie Ives ’99 (Mountaineers Books, $26.95). Riffing on the infamous Riesenstein Hoax (about an unscaleable, indeed imaginary, set of peaks in British Columbia), and drawing on her … won’t be a snap of the fingers, insofar as private enterprises are significant actors, as Ari Ezra Waldman ’02, J.D. …
Issue: January-February 2022
Off the Shelf
… The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping … thúy (Knopf, $18). A heralded debut novel portrays the life of a Vietnamese family in America, as seen through the eyes …
Issue: May-June 2003
Forum: Is Harvard Complacent?
… Consider this irony: Harvard and other elite American research universities, so crucial to innovation in almost every area of our lives, find it almost impossible to innovate within … boundaries.” 1 Higher education, the ultimate siloed enterprise, is adept at neither. Would a university with fewer …
Issue: September-October 2021
Books behind Bars
… thought he’d spend his days in prison. But in 2005, when offered the post of librarian at the Suffolk County House of … was writing his magnum opus: an autobiography detailing his rise from a childhood of physical abuse by his mother to a …
Issue: January-February 2011
Fate of Graduate-Student Union Still Unknown
… with teaching or research responsibilities) voted on whether to unionize, the election still remains too close to … “yes.” But 314 ballots remained challenged at the time of the count due to questions over voter eligibility. … eligibility grounds. Difficulties determining eligibility arise for students, particularly in the sciences, whose …
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Stinging the Dinosaurs
… Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor emeritus, in The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of … now possible to press far ahead in this fundamental enterprise of biology. … An excerpt from The Superorganism: The …
Issue: November-December 2008