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Save the Date: President Gay Installation
… P resident-elect Claudine Gay, who assumes office July 1 , will be formally installed on Friday, September 29, the Office of the University Marshal announced today . No …
Off the Shelf
… '83, Nf '99 (Public Affairs, $23). "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love … so!" said General George S. Patton. Hedges has seen plenty of violent death as a New York Times war correspondent (see …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Oldest Graduate
… At the age of 104, Dorothy Summers Green ’17 of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe …
Joseph S. Nye: How Do Past Presidents Rank in Foreign Policy?
… do presidents incorporate morality into decisions involving the national interest? Moral considerations explain why Truman, who authorized the use of nuclear weapons in Japan during World War II, later … And in the effort to do so, we helped to stimulate the rise of basically the terrorist movements in the region, …
Eye on the Cosmos
… In 1895, Harvard deployed the most powerful photographic telescope in the world to a … placement in the cosmos, and ultimately, the expansion rate of the universe. The Bruce telescope owes its name, fame, … in 1908 published her observation that the peak brightness of certain pulsing stars called Cepheids was related to the …
Issue: November-December 2017
The Students' "Splendid Misery"
… Students at Harvard Law School have always complained about their splendid misery, citing the cutthroat competition, overcrowded classes, and aloof faculty. But last year Dean Robert Clark decided to do … study, completed last summer, finds—to nobody’s surprise—that classes are too big and professors too …
From the Archives: The Examined Life
… Recanati professor of medicine Jerome Groopman has, for decades, been among the very rarest species of triple-threat medical … academician, at Harvard Medical School; and perhaps the best explicator of medicine and medical research for lay …
Hot Off the Press!
… The University has printed 11,000 new alumni directories, most of which were scheduled to be shipped in mid August. The … with shipping included. To order, call the Alumni Records Office at 617-495-2371. … The University has printed …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Chinese “Good Life”
… powerhouse, and a rising strategic force. But outsiders often have little sense of the Chinese as people. In Deep China: The Moral Life of …
Issue: January-February 2012
“Hearing Through the Body”
… Whether a train’s whistle or a cell-phone’s ring, sound is a … physical phenomenon, grounded in the vibrations of material objects. In a Monday evening lecture, “Hearing Through the Body”—part of the 2013-2014 Sawyer Seminar series “ Hearing Modernity …
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
… phones and credit cards and televisions and computers; from the infrastructure of cities; from sensor-equipped buildings, trains, buses, … from our mother and one from our father—that together comprise 6 billion base pairs,” Quackenbush continues, “a number …
Issue: March-April 2014
Botanical Bounty
… amid suburban sprawl, lies a 45-acre haven called Garden in the Woods. This “living museum” offers refreshing excursions through New England’s diverse … That fact, and the serene beauty of these early-spring risers, are celebrated during annual Trillium Week …
Issue: May-June 2019
In the Monkey Seat
… Look at an eighteenth-century painting of English horse racing and you will see a jockey riding far back on the horse and sitting upright, perpendicular to the ground, "a point of calm stability as the horse stretched its legs out ahead …
The SIGnboard
… As a new academic year begins, the Harvard Alumni Association’s Shared Interest Groups … our webinar series will be delving deep into the topics of farmland investing and big data in agriculture. We will … Harvard community members interested in raising awareness of, and providing education about, various cultural …
Issue: September-October 2014
Mathematics in “The Simpsons”
… The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, by the British … Simon Singh, illuminates some little-known facets of the popular, long-running TV show. It turns out that several of the writers for The Simpsons and its spinoff series, …