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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
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 …
Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact
… During the last 500 million years, the fossil record shows, the ecology of life on Earth has been disrupted and irrevocably altered … relevant,” Knoll says, because what happened then—a rapid rise of CO 2 , ocean acidification, warmth, and loss of …
Issue: September-October 2018
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
Festival Rites: The Underside
… An innocent pleasure of Commencement Week is cap-watching. You stroll along the line of seniors in parade formation in the Yard ready to slope …
Issue: May-June 2014
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
Crimson on the Hill
… The Republicans may have swept Capitol Hill in the November … elections, but the Democrats remain firmly in control of Harvard's contingent of alumni representatives and senators: 27 (plus one …
Issue: January-February 2003
Predicting Viral Variants and Vaccine Cures
… In medicine, “There’s a quiet revolution happening at the moment,” says professor of systems biology Debora Marks. Most people have … are around now—but also work against things that might arise in the future.” Generative AI has also enabled …
Issue: November-December 2024
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
… F erguson, Missouri, the suburb north of St. Louis where 18-year-old Michael … an outhouse. And when it rains, and the water begins to rise, the sewage follows the water, out into the drainage …
Issue: May-June 2020
He Has Made the World a Safer Place
… Thursday, May 31, former students, friends, and colleagues of molecular biologist Matthew Meselson, Cabot professor of natural sciences, gathered at the American …
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
What Can Be Done About Gun Violence?
… earlier this week, Steven Dettelbach, J.D. ’91, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), began …
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 …
The Juggler’s Tale
… From the outside and the outset, the Dumbarton Oaks Research … is an oddity. The building, nestled in a leafy corner of Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., runs the architectural … marble and hung with tapestries, to the curved glass walls of the Philip Johnson Pavilion (both add-ons to the original …
Issue: November-December 2018
LBJ and “All the Way”
… Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way, starring Emmy winner Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad as President Lyndon Johnson, has incited not … Theater (ART) production. (Rauch, artistic director of OSF, is one of the theater professionals featured in …