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Steel and Skin
… Rising at 60 Oxford Street is the University Information Services Building. Stepped-down … Dean Rogers | Partners Architects, is a model for the kinds of structures that will be erected in the North Precinct. … facility, designed by Ellenzweig Associates, comprises robotics and instrumentation labs, wet and dry …
Issue: May-June 2002
Astonish Us, Class of 2018
… Monday afternoon, this year’s freshmen thronged outside their dormitories, greeted by nearly 400 alumni marshals … were charged with bearing its banner. When the bells of Memorial Church struck the hour, the students—teetering … .’” It was not only mathematicians who wanted to be surprised, she continued: “The great ballet master Diaghilev is …
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
Off the Shelf
… Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein '90 (Basic Books, … Much we need to know about men, women, and the shiftiness of morality is taught in the 10 tellings of the famous fairy …
Issue: July-August 2002
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. …
AI and Adversarial Attacks
… The privacy and security issues surrounding big data, the lifeblood of artificial intelligence, are well known: large streams … change decisions. A credit score, for example, might rise significantly if one of the data points used to …
Issue: January-February 2019
Nathaniel Bowditch
… Harvard awarded Nathaniel Bowditch an honorary doctor of laws, a decade after its (unsuccessful) offer of the Hollis professorship of mathematics and natural …
Issue: July-August 2016
The College Chasm
… Although America’s research universities are the envy of the world, our system of baccalaureate education … , all courtesy of broad economic forces—especially the rise in income inequality in American society. Three forces …
Issue: November-December 2017
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 …
Welcome to the Blogosphere
… At theissue.com , Matt Dalio ’06 compiles recent posts from various blogs and presents them in the format of an on-line newspaper. There are thousands of blogs out there; Dalio and his staff read them so the …
Off the Shelf
… Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection, selected and with an introduction by … I. Ordway III '49 (Four Walls Eight Windows, $50). Lukian of Samosata, writing in Greek apparently the first work of …
Issue: September-October 2001
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 Layered Histories in Black Family Keepsakes
… Historian Tiya A. Miles conjured the haunting image of a cotton sack for her audience at a … her newly released book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake . The bag tells …
Harvard Unveils Plans for Science and Engineering Center
… University officials have now released designs for the long-anticipated Harvard John A. Paulson School of … expected to be completed in 2020. The complex—which will rise on the foundation left behind in 2010 when construction …
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
… Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist … Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker … our fears, anger, and hate, and setting the stage for the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world.” (As …