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Models—and Mud—in Amazonia
… Robert Newell climbed carefully, hand over hand, up the side of a 14-story meteorological tower in the middle of … sounded in the distance. Then, a half-hour before sunrise, the instruments recorded an imperceptible rise in the …
Issue: January-February 2011
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
… THE COLLEGE has admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2022, the same percentage as last year , the admissions … applicants: “First-generation college students comprise nearly 10.6 percent of the early admitted students …
FAS: Faculty and Fisc
… At a November 8 reception in University Hall, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) celebrated Michael D. … the fiscal 2018 results: the endowment distribution will rise this year, but current-use giving might fall. Strong …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Taliban and Trauma
… ’97, a board-certified psychiatrist and host and founder of Safe Space Radio, was sitting in her home in Portland, Maine, when she heard the “ping” of an incoming Facebook message. She clicked. It was an old …
The 2013 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Harvard and the Valley
… The first person to congratulate me on getting into Harvard … on the link in my acceptance email to find a picture of him looking back at me with his characteristic blank … too thrilled to pay much attention, but later the choice of spokesperson felt strange to me. “Didn’t he drop out?” I …
Issue: March-April 2018
Lessons from the Navajo
… In 1968, Lucy Moore '66 accompanied her then-husband, Bob Hilgendorf, J.D. '67, to Chinle--Canyon de Chelly--in the heart of the Navajo Nation, in Arizona, hoping not only to do some … taught in elementary schools before being elected justice of the peace for her district. Lucy Moore, her son, and …
Issue: March-April 2005
How the Lines Get Bent
… Maps of coronavirus infections have for months filled the front pages of newspapers and media websites, becoming a crucial way to …
President Faust: "We Will Find Ways to Advance"
… this afternoon delivered what was billed as an "opening-of-year" address in Sanders Theatre, in lieu of the e-mail messages sent in prior years: … declined in fiscal year 2009; that current-use giving had risen, but that gift income overall, as reported, had …
Room for the Arts?
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Facing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe … the Quadrangle Recreational Athletics Center. Dance is one of many undergraduate arts programs clamoring for space as …
Issue: November-December 2003
Network for the Next Generation
… The surveillance area of Harvard's network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at center displays a …
Doctoral Director
… Allan M. Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the … explores venereal disease. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That …
Issue: March-April 2008
Albanian Joins the Language Curriculum
… Albanian I classes began this semester, housed in the Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC) department, which also offers Aramaic, Persian, Turkish, Yiddish, and more. Edona … unusual admirative mood used to express astonishment or surprise. Apart from being the official langauge of Albania and …
The Screenwriter’s Toolbox
… lecturer on English. “It’s only impossible.” In other words, turning out a 120-page script—the standard … decided to add screenwriting to its creative-writing offerings, it tapped Rubin, who has written dozens of screenplays in the past two decades. Three have been …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
… As the data from the COVID-19 pandemic begin to accumulate, a … disproportionate toll on poorer Americans and communities of color. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, black Americans make up 13 percent of the country’s population but one-third of confirmed COVID …