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University of Texas Joins Harvard, MIT in edX Online Learning Venture
… The University of Texas (UT) System today announced its affiliation with edX, the nonprofit Harvard-MIT online learning venture launched last May . … new edX affiliation comes as other online-education enterprises race to sign partnership agreements with multiple …
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
… The honors, awarded at the Harvard Alumni Association’s … to “create a strong, connected, collaborative community of Harvard University alumni who are practitioners, … and troubleshooting—all of which has yielded a significant rise in club membership and in revenue. Club events include …
Issue: March-April 2018
Hertzberg on the Record
… The following is an extended sampling of writing by Hendrik … liberal political essayist in America. The magazine's "Talk of the Town" section characteristically opens with a …
Issue: January-February 2003
Off the Shelf
… The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion, by Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science (W.W. Norton, $32.99). “Brainwashing …
Issue: May-June 2025
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 …
Lowell House Renovations: An Inside Look
… “They used to sleep on Lowell; now they[’re] jealous of our … and efficient, former utility rooms clogged with outdated machines are now open for student use. Six of the House’s …
Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
… What makes a photograph art ? A great photograph may be the result of skill and intention, or it may be the result of dumb … how should we think about the photographer who waits for sunrise knowing that the perfect suffusion of light in the sky …
Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
… Author Min Jin Lee , a fellow this year at the Radcliffe Institute , is best known for her epic novel … century through the 1980s, spanning Japan’s annexation of Korea, the central character Sunja’s migration to Japan and survival of World War II, and Japan’s rise as a wealthy consumer society. For many Americans, the …
The Fit Fat
… now banned in some places) is practically poison, clogging the arteries and contributing to hypertension and heart … too, has good fat and bad fat—and the difference is not one of quantity, but of kind. When most of us think of fat … marks cell nuclei. The muscle fibers’ presence was a surprise; it indicated that brown fat is developmentally related …
Issue: January-February 2009
Linguistics: The Sound & the Fury
… The call to arms to save Harvard's linguistics department … a furor among linguists everywhere. Jeremy Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was bombarded with protesting letters. …
Rethinking the Divinity School
… "The university is very healthy as a whole. The immensely … challenges in the next few decades. From what I've seen of President Summers's initiatives and momentum, I have a … Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in 1973, and has since risen through its professorial ranks to become Albertson …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Medical-Robotics Revolution
… surgeon could operate on a beating heart without opening the patient’s chest? Or a flexible robot could navigate the delicate branching of blood vessels, or bronchi in the lungs, and then stiffen … robot inside a person’s arteries? These kinds of innovations are already in the vanguard of the field of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Playing the Fields
… This fall's edition of Courses of Instruction lists 943 new choices, some renamed, some renumbered, but most basically new. The tally includes thirteen new Core offerings (and a new … history, and biology. Since 1990, biochemical sciences has risen 73 percent to rank in the top five, and history has …
The War and the Writ
… has been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center for the last seven years. He is not a terrorist. He’s a mistake, a victim of the war against al Qaeda. An interrogator first told him … But courts eventually begin to reassert their authority as crises pass, says Vermeule. The government, perhaps fearing …
Issue: January-February 2009
The War at Home
… Almost every week last year I received an e-mail with the subject line “Iraq Update.” With each message, the … 16, 2006, the line read “Last Deployment Update.” A friend of mine was stationed in Iraq with the Fourth Infantry Division. A whole year passed as I thought of him, prayed for him, but could not respond to a single …
Issue: March-April 2007