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A Report on the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) convened in … and Public Policy, and Andrew Gordon, Chair of History We rise to speak in our capacity as spring 2006 coordinators of … As we all know, it has been a collective educational enterprise based on the open exchange of different views on what …
Off the Shelf
… Loomis, sometime in the 1930s Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, by … of New York, Maritime College, Wosk examines how women with machines have been portrayed during the past two centuries, …
Issue: May-June 2002
The Imbalance of Power
… For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country's foreign policy. The North Atlantic Treaty … the Suez Crisis in 1956, Vietnam in the 1960s, the energy crises in the 1970s, and the Euromissiles controversy in the …
Issue: March-April 2004
Artificial Intelligence in the Academy
… How is artificial intelligence reshaping the notion of original scholarship? How are faculty using … students from his course, General Education 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative …
A Pleasure of the Flesh
… Athenians of the fifth century B.C.were crazy about seafood, and for … in Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens , a learned treatise on eating, …
Harvard Fundraising Receipts Rise 7 Percent
… Harvard’s cash receipts from donors totaled $639 million in the fiscal year ended last June 30—up 7 percent from $597 … most recent growth represents a recovery from the effects of the financial crisis and recession during late 2008 and … $639 million … 1508 … 1511 … Harvard Fundraising Receipts Rise 7 Percent … article …
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
… career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals—first with Clairol, then Old … had a creative bent,” he says, “and I was always in charge of advertising, packaging, and the creative groups in the big companies I was with.” Photograph courtesy of Peter Liman Liman with his Sunflowers, painted last …
Issue: March-April 2007
Commencement and Alumni Events
… and Stanford University’s Meier and Lane provostial professor of medicine Abraham Verghese . For details and updates on … and guest poet Arthur Sze , whose many books include The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems, Sanders …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Nature of Archives
… “Potomitans,” shown at Art Basel in Switzerland, the Franco-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga suspended 39 … from the ceiling, adorning them with handmade sculptures of leaves, berries, and flowers from Mimosa pudica and … how plant species function as allies in humanity’s pursuit of liberation. Kiwanga’s work frequently contends with power …
Issue: November-December 2022
A Visit from Bill Gates
… Harvard students got a thrill on Thursday when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, came to campus. After touring the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … flat. Meanwhile, pension and healthcare costs continue to rise, putting pressure on other parts of state budgets. That …
The End of Shopping Week
… During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted by a 3:2 margin to replace the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Curiosities: Animating a New Species at the Peabody Essex Museum
… PVC tubing and zip ties form the essential “bones” of Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s … Lena Herzog (published last year in Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen) who spent seven years documenting …
Issue: September-October 2015
The Opposite of “If”
… you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Found in the University Archives, a cache of English-department files from the 1920s through the early 1940s of letters from members of the public seeking advice about …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Science of Hurt
… The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled … early from his regular pastoral duties — all because of the excruciating pain that grips his lower back and … than it’s useful. That’s when problems with chronic pain arise, as in Fulton’s case. One type of chronic pain is …
Issue: November-December 2005
Thank the Rich for Low Rates?
… Could wealth accumulation by the rich in the United States have contributed to a savings … has forced down interest rates? The inexplicably low cost of borrowing that has persisted worldwide for nearly two … contributed to a national savings glut, and a corresponding rise in the prices of assets ranging from equities to homes. …
Issue: January-February 2022