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Freeman Hrabowski: “We the Teachers Make the Difference”
… afternoon that sweltered past 80 degrees, an audience of several hundred filled the tent in Radcliffe Yard for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s convocation exercises. The keynote speaker …
The Relevant Biomedical Research
… The story of “smart drugs” and their role in the … class. And they firmly established that the src oncogene arises from a perfectly normal cellular src gene they called … cells stained heavily. They concluded that GISTs must arise from a cancerous Cajal cell. One more step was …
Issue: January-February 2007
THE Game
… The Harvard-Yale football rivalry constitutes a seemingly … Corbett and Paul Simpson chronicle the two teams' campaigns of 2002, when a climactic Harvard victory left them … the narrative are flashbacks to notable contests of the past — among them the initial roundball game, …
Issue: November-December 2004
Changing the College Curriculum
… The renovation of Harvard's undergraduate course of study took two piecemeal steps forward during the late winter and early spring, even as the timetable for …
Issue: May-June 2002
The "Invisible University"
… Biological Laboratories. Photograph by Jim Harrison They have been called the "invisible university," because … They are neither faculty nor students. Nor do many of them qualify as employees. Postdocs are Ph.D.s engaged in … from the $21,000 rate of only three years ago.) Pay rises a bit with seniority--to $29,832 in one's second year, …
L. Fred Jewett, “Durable Dean” of Harvard College, Has Died
… student from Taunton, Massachusetts, when he entered the College, L. Fred Jewett ’57, M.B.A. ’60, G ’63, would spend much of his Harvard career helping applicants from many different … the Yard, and flourish once they arrived. The former dean of admissions and financial aid (1972-1984) and dean of …
Radio Wits
… witty guests, well versed on current events. Lots of laughs: the wisecracking atmosphere’s slightly competitive, though … Prairie Home Companion starts and enlists them in the enterprise.” At its best, the Wait, Wait… enterprise is very …
Issue: January-February 2010
Scholars Advocate “Managed Retreat”—Before Climate Change Sinks Coastlines
… As the climate changes and seas rise on coastal communities … world, the best option for some will be to flee. The idea of having to move people and communities away from the …
The Corporation Welcomes Its First Woman
… In February 1989, Judith Richards Hope, J.D. '64, became the first woman member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive … years. As she relates in Pinstripes and Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of '64, Who Forged an Old Girl …
Issue: January-February 2003
The Janelia Experiment
… Great scientific research organizations, of the rare variety that produce multiple Nobel Prize-caliber … can be imitated. This is the precept behind the creation of Janelia Farm, the new biological-research campus of the …
Issue: January-February 2007
A New Audience for “A Night of Storytelling”
… Historians thought that the first Irish language “talkie” had been lost to a fire in … documentarian Robert Flaherty, Oidhche Sheanchais ( A Night of Storytelling ) offers a 12-minute tale of peril and homecoming. In it, four …
Engineering Dean Frank Doyle to Depart for Brown
… F rank Doyle, dean of engineeering and applied sciences since July 2015, will … Harvard’s new president, when appointed, will have the opportunity to influence the selection of three new … also helmed the school during a period that saw a dramatic rise in sponsored research support. “SEAS has flourished and …
Behind the Scenes: Getting things right
… It sounds almost too obvious to say: in writing about other people’s lives, the biggest responsibility is to get things right. This is not just a question of facts; it’s also a matter of tone and emphasis and balance, of choosing the truest …
A Science Is Born
… Thirty veterans of Harvard’s Aiken Computation Lab reunited on January 19 , … world. Rip van Winkles who had never fallen asleep, we gathered to make sense of what had evolved from our experience … codes programmers wrote could be executed on real machines. And logicians had for decades studied the limits …
Issue: September-October 2020
Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance
… Two sets of protestors briefly interrupted interim president Alan M. Garber’s remarks during the Alumni Day celebration on Friday, May 31, as he and … election during the Civil War and the compromises that gave rise to the violence of Jim Crow, to the fights of the civil …