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Clues on the Wing
… Vladimir A. Lukhtanov saw Agrodiaetus butterflies of several species flying together, and even though they all looked much the same in most … all an inch to an inch and a half wide, with the same sort of spots, and, upon examination, same-shaped genitalia …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Oddest Streak in Rowing
… The Harvard men's lightweight crew boasts one of the most consistent records of excellence in college sports. Consider the May regatta …
Issue: May-June 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
President Faust’s Virtual Beginning-of-Year Message
… President Drew Faust — who launched the 2009 academic year with a speech in Sanders Theatre (on … Harvard after the financial crisis and decline in the value of the endowment; read her text ), and the 2010 year with a … message"—with Faust standing in her Massachusetts Hall office and narrating as images flash by of the campus, …
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
… Tony Saich begins his magisterial account of the hundred-year history of the Chinese Communist Party … shift to opening and reform in the early 1980s, and the rise of Xi Jinping in the context of a massive …
Issue: July-August 2021
This Is How the World Ends
… In the imagination of Justin Cronin ’84, when the world ends, … find its way into what I wrote, but the occasion had never arisen,” he says, “and then it arose.” His chance was The … though for some readers it must have been a rude surprise all the same—as if Alien stood unmasked as a sequel to …
The Sisters McDavitt
… Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie … the equipment and relax for a moment on the synthetic turf of Jordan Field. Photograph by Stu Rosner That was a … the second and third goals, respectively, in a 3-2 upset of eleventh-ranked Connecticut, Harvard's first victory over …
Issue: November-December 2003
Bureau of Study Counsel, R.I.P.
… The College today announced a significant change in academic … including a fall-semester transition from the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) to a new entity, named the Academic … much remains unknown. Its unveiling today may come as a surprise to many faculty members and the student body as a …
Two Women, Two Histories
… As the second world war drew to a close, two women thought … Law School. The first was an African-American native of North Carolina, the granddaughter of a slave and the … ’45, who some say is more responsible than anyone for the rise of grassroots religious conservatism and the …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Memorable Eccentric
… small boy , only his eyes and forehead visible, stares out of an enormous, tall window three panes across. The tip of a single bare tree branch, which he does not see, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Overhauling the Endowment
… In November, he invited Harvard Magazine to HMC’s offices to discuss these changes in depth. Blyth directly addressed an altered … November-December 2015, page 22, and “ Harvard Endowment Rises to $37.6 Billion on 5.8 Percent Investment Return .” … …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Harvard Man, Redefined
… The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative -- which waives … parental contributions for families with annual income of $60,000 or less -- has made it easier for students from families of modest means to attend, but those students face a host of …
Admissions Angst: The Next Level
… College received about 35,000 applications for admission to the class of 2015 , according to data released today. This represents … the 30,489 applications received last year (when the number of applicants expanded by nearly 5 percent), and a more than …
Growth Spurt
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the … positions annually for a decade. In fact, the census has risen from 615 positions during the 1997-1998 academic year … certain to slow because of what he calls “the considerable rise in our expenditures,” attributable primarily to the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Unraveling “Racial Threat”
… Riding the train to work every day in Chicago, Ryan Enos began to … station, all the African-American riders seemed to get off just as Caucasian riders climbed aboard. “It was like a … exposed to the Spanish-speakers, he found a significant rise in exclusionary attitudes among those interviewed. “The …
Issue: September-October 2014