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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
Reading the Market
… Harvard Business School, however, two researchers believe they have found a means of anticipating the movements of individual companies’ stock … “significantly predicts future negative earnings surprises.” (The vast majority of alterations are negative in …
Issue: May-June 2019
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, …
The HIID Aftermath
… As of July 1, the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was officially closed, an action announced in January (see "HIID, Dismantled," March-April, page 76). Nonetheless, a fraction of its international development work …
“La Survivance”
… The Museum of Work & Culture tells the story of French-Canadian immigrants who worked in …
Issue: May-June 2020
Making the Call
… never happy sticking to one field. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and working in Bell Labs, he felt the tug of technology and switched his focus in 1993 toward software …
Science Dean, Soccer Judge
… In an all-volunteer youth soccer league, brave parents must rise to the occasion and create order from cleated and shin-guarded … the early 2000s, one such parent was Frank Doyle, now dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied …
Issue: July-August 2019
Editing an End to Malaria?
… At Harvard , experiments involving mosquito sex are the purview of Flaminia Catteruccia, director of the insectary at the Harvard Chan School of Public …
Issue: May-June 2016
Hopi Hoekstra Appointed Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean
… B iologist Hopi e.Hoekstra will become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) effective August 1. … evolving state of Crimson coursework today.) Hoekstra reprised some of these perspectives in September 2013, as one …
Longshots Can Win in the Schoolyard
… When he was four, Raymond's family moved from Mexico to the United States. Everyone worked. The four children helped … took time to encourage their children to make the most of their educational chances. "They helped the four of us get through college and graduate school," he recalls. …
The Church as Forum
… Memorial Church was on several occasions in the fall term the site of strong talk about the conflicts of the time. On October 2 former New York Times columnist …
Issue: January-February 2003
Beyond the Core
… The Task Force on General Education (TFGE), commissioned … last spring, has issued a preliminary report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), for discussion this fall and … non-concentration coursework, nor how . The task force comprised six senior faculty members, who worked through the …
How Does MRI Work?
… How does the MRI magnet produce detailed cross-sections of the brain? … endoscopes, furniture, surgical drapes, and anesthesia machines are just a few of the MRI-compatible devices …
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
Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux
… When the Harvard College class of 2027 gathered in Tercentenary … the undergraduates while navigating continuing campus crises prompted by the internal and political reactions to …