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The Watchdog
… mass unemployment, Bharat Ramamurti ’03 got the official call from Senate minority leader Chuck … a defining problem for Ramamurti’s generation, giving rise to his interest in banking and economic policy. …
Issue: September-October 2020
Let the Sonnets Be Unbroken
… The subtitle of former Harvard president Neil L. Rudenstine ’s new book, Ideas of Order , announces that it is “A Close Reading of … which has long outlasted the doctrine that gave it rise, has forcefully shaped the way poetry is taught in the …
Issue: January-February 2015
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 …
Bigger Biology
… When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly … for diabetes? What are all the mutations that might give rise to cancer? What are all the genes that are essential to …
Issue: November-December 2006
Military Recruiting: The Lawsuits
… In the wake of new military recruiting practices on campus, sharp differences of opinion continue to fuel exchanges about the right way to defend Harvard's policy of prohibiting …
Issue: March-April 2004
Costs and Benefits of Connection
… his medical and academic career, an interest in end-of-life care led Nicholas Christakis to study the “widowhood effect”: people’s tendency to die soon after a spouse does. (The surviving partner’s chances of dying in the next three months increase by 30 to 90 …
Issue: May-June 2010
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 …
Off the Shelf
… $29.95). He is a senior editor at Parabola, she is a professor of religion at Smith, and this is an epic—well written, … this most human undertaking from its beginnings and around the world. The Brightening Glance: Imagination and …
Issue: March-April 2006
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
Edouard Kopp Named Curator of Drawings
… The Harvard Art Museums have named Edouard Kopp the Abrams associate curator of drawings in the museums’ division of European and American Art, officials announced this week. …
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 …
Harvard Slavery Descendants Program: What’s Next?
… A month after the University laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program (HSRP), which for …
Harvard Endowment Rises 5.7 Percent to $36.9 Billion
… Management Company (HMC) reported on September 12 that the University's endowment had increased by $2.0 billion, or … during the fiscal year ended June 30. The new total of $36.9 billion represents an 8.6 percent investment return … percent benchmark return in those classes. Real assets comprise "liquid commodities" (oil and gas, agricultural goods, …
Taking It to the Streets
… DaviD C. grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. With no father around and a drug-addicted mother, he moved through foster homes, gathering a fragile sense of worth from a gang of friends. “All I aspired to was being important on the …
Issue: January-February 2009
As Disciplines Converge
… Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries … credential and experimental forms of research are on the rise. In the future, as the process unfolds and as now …
Issue: July-August 2003