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Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
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The Keystone XL Pipeline
… issues have prompted more controversy recently than whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents contend … Canadian tar-sands oil, would sharply accelerate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), with global climate consequences … train carrying Bakken crude. Problems, of course, can also arise in pipeline transport. An Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying …
Issue: November-December 2013
Back to the Future
… Striding through the newly rebuilt barn at his Sanborn Mills Farm, in Loudon, … “that I suppose I want to provide access to a different way of living than what, for lack of a better term, is often … setting up liminal spaces, preparing for transporting surprises: ‘Aha! Moments.’” Although Cabot never spoke with his …
Issue: November-December 2019
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
… oceans and marshes, is home to an extraordinary range of life. It is also the source of the food—and air—that sustain humanity, and of … melt and warming ocean waters expand, sea levels will rise much higher than the six to eight inches they climbed …
Issue: May-June 2021
Brian Farrell in Bugdom
… At a research station in the Dominican cloud forest, Brian Farrell has just seen, out of the corner of his eye, a prize buzzing by. Ditching his … Older than the Hawai'ian or Galápagos Islands, Hispaniola rises abruptly from the Caribbean to a mountainous interior. …
Issue: September-October 2003
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
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 …
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 …
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
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
How Revolutions Happen
… Robert Darnton , Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian emeritus, is a formidable historian of the book and of France. In his sweeping new book, The … royal depravity and corruption) were refracted and gave rise to a new, radical public consciousness punctuated by …
Issue: November-December 2023
The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings: An Analysis
… Caplan, a leading legal-affairs journalist, to analyze the Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action in college … almost half a century , race-conscious admissions have been of central importance to Harvard and other selective … LL.M. ’32, in his controlling opinion in the landmark case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke …