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Michelle Wu Tells the Truth
… When invited to address the College class of 2022 at Class Day, Boston Mayor … incredible honor?” The second was, “Actually, this is kind of awkward, because I had already told one of the Harvard …
Radcliffe and the Right
… year,” Ross Douthat ’02 sighed gustily. He was lamenting the irony of being a Catholic conservative who lately found himself … that people in your movement have tried to negotiate the rise of Donald Trump?” Yoest answered that while some might …
The Lawyer Librettist
… “Lucifer’s car was towed,” someone announced to the room—they’d have to start without him. The three Fates … finally arrived with breathless apology, the workshop cast of Rev. 23— all graduate students in the New England … program—prepared to take act one from the top. The curtain rises: the apocalypse is over. Heaven reigns on Earth. …
Issue: January-February 2017
Ants through the Ages
… in present-day Colombia and promptly began writing hundreds of pages of groundbreaking observations about ants. He sent them in book form to the great Swedish taxonomist Carl …
Issue: July-August 2011
Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
… In this interview, Matthew Bunn , the Schlesinger professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign …
Off the Shelf
… A Natural History of North American Trees , by Donald Culross Peattie ’22, … (Houghton Mifflin, $40). This is a one-volume edition of two classics from the 1950s by Peattie (1898-1964), who wrote about the giant …
Issue: May-June 2007
The Community Scholar
… a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of students slowly pour out onto the grounds of the large, comprehensive high school. It's a warm, sunny …
Issue: January-February 2002
Nancy Coleman Appointed Dean of Continuing Education
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced … Nancy Coleman, currently associate provost and director of strategic growth initiatives at Wellesley College, will become dean of the Division of Continuing Education (DCE, the Harvard …
Studying Suicide
… Professor of psychology Matthew Nock studies suicide: what causes people to take their own lives; how to predict who will try; and how to …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard Public Health Dean Julio Frenk to Depart
… Julio Frenk , who became dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (as it was then known) … and nutrition-related problems Poverty and humanitarian crises , from war-caused displacement of populations to …
Unbuttoned Up
… B eau McCall: Buttons On! at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, until … Spinnin’ on a 45 (B-Side). The nearly three-foot replica of a 45-rpm spindle adapter (that plastic disk inside a single-song record) was hand-sewn with hundreds of yellow buttons, then topped with a hundred more shaped …
Issue: September-October 2024
General Education under the Microscope
… General education —the flagship program in the College’s curriculum, consisting of courses from eight categories designed to assure that … did it come from?—and the ethical problems inherent in the rise of Western power. My driving motivation was to devise a …
The New Tenure Track
… Mary Lewis, a member of the faculty since 2002 and previously Loeb associate … offering a more secure path unavailable here. And with the rise of dual-career families, the near-certainty that one …
Issue: September-October 2010
Bigger Biology
… When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly … for diabetes? What are all the mutations that might give rise to cancer? What are all the genes that are essential to …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Long Goodbye
… night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner. We are currently undergoing a period of profound personal change: relocating our lives, moving … College, or at least topics related to it, still dominates the discussion: the boys who lived upstairs our senior year …
Issue: September-October 2005