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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 …
A Right Way to Read?
… I started early on, when I was in kindergarten, learning the ABCs,” she remembers. English is her second language, … her first, and when she was younger, the letters and sounds of English weren’t intuitive. By middle school, she could … longer texts. Then, during sixth grade and the first half of seventh grade, she worked with literacy coach Emma …
Issue: September-October 2024
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
… Poet Carl Phillips ’81 won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 , a collection … that the prize committee called a “masterful” chronicle of American culture “as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of …
“Go Guard the Galaxy”
… was keynote speaker at today’s 2023 Class Day ceremony for the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He shared with graduates what he … the aftermath. Gupta’s work has taken him to the frontlines of Flint, Michigan’s, water crisis, the Gulf of Mexico’s oil …
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
… On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President … briefly to “acknowledge someone whose generosity of time and talent has shaped and altered forever the lives of countless students at Harvard.” He was talking about Jack …
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
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
Burned at the Buzzer
… T he big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much … in the title role, set an Ivy League record by catching 21 of the 42 passes completed by Joe Walland, the league's …
The Harvard Film Archive
… says internationally renowned filmmaker Dusan Makavejev of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), “thousands of brilliant, fantastic prints, many of them very rare.” …
Issue: November-December 2005
Easing the College Transition
… challenges. Students from under-resourced high schools often struggle to navigate office hours, research, fellowships, class participation, … city navigation, and academic planning (see “Mastering the ‘Hidden Curriculum,’” November-December 2017, page 18). …
Issue: July-August 2023
Developing the Brain-Computer Interface
… City, Benjamin Rapoport, A.B.-A.M. ’03, M.D. ’08 (’13), often tagged along on weekend hospital rounds with his neurologist father. Samuel Rapoport was also an electrical engineer and a … applied technology to help patients suffering from a range of conditions. He taught his young son about the brain as an …
Issue: January-February 2025
Due Process
… years ago, Jeannie Suk Gersen was still telling people that the area of law she specialized in—sexual assault and domestic … whether something did or didn’t happen.” Similar questions arise in cases of alleged rape and sexual assault. “In recent …
Issue: March-April 2021
Saluting the 2019 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 …
Prosperity and the Pill
… Hailed as a medical miracle, the birth-control pill has been lauded and vilified for its … sexual revolution. Now, in a recent paper, "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions," Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin and professor of …