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The Gropius House
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … Gropius was no sentimentalist. What he would have thought of his family home’s current status as a world-renowned … windows—meant to maximize passive solar heat and views of the landscape—and feel as if the family were returning at …
Issue: September-October 2007
The 2021 Honorands
… speaker, Martin Baron) received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 27. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands as video highlights of their careers streamed, and President Lawrence S. Bacow … by Harvard Magazine Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Party Is Dead; Long Live the Party
… The undergraduate could scarcely believe his eyes. He looked … the beer had flowed, where the walls had echoed with cries of "Party at the Tack," three students sat eating frozen … is to say, before the Drug-Free Schools and Campuses Act of 1989. That law, which took effect in October 1990, …
Attend to the Cursed
… at a Harvard podium during Commencement week mentioned the war in Iraq. Joshua Patashnik '07, of Adams House and San Diego, did do so in his Harvard … convinced that their religious beliefs or lack thereof constitute the only acceptable incarnation of absolute …
Issue: July-August 2007
“Is Precision Medicine for Everyone?”
… David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, is concerned that personalized …
Issue: May-June 2018
Protesters Disrupt the President
… was coming Thursday evening as he introduced an Institute of Politics event featuring President Lawrence S. Bacow. Standing onstage at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Elmendorf exhorted those in … demanding that Harvard divest its $39-billion endowment of companies involved in the fossil-fuel and prison …
Genetics and the Human Revolution
… pen to paper, stylus to tablet, or even brush to cave wall, their comings and goings were noted in another record, within their very cells. The human genome consists of chunks of DNA passed forward from countless ancestors, so … evidence indicates that these behaviors did not arise as rapidly as once thought, with evidence of dispersed …
Seen at the Beach
… in 1730. Sara Schechner describes it as “a timeline of monarchies drawn on a colossal statue of Daniel made of different materials to represent the golden age, silver age, copper age, and so forth down to …
Issue: July-August 2013
Aiding the “Doubly Disadvantaged”
… Seemingly in unison , elite colleges like Harvard have in the last decade opened their doors to more students from poor families than ever before. Eighteen percent of today’s Harvard undergraduates receive federal Pell … trying to curry favor with their superiors. “I was surprised,” Jack says, “by how meritocratic the doubly …
Issue: September-October 2016
The SIGnboard
… seek fellow alumni who share your interests, remember that the Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: May-June 2009
Off the Shelf
… World , by Jack M. Balkin ’78, J.D. ’81 (Harvard, $35). The author, a professor at Yale Law School, turns from questions of … Angeles Times details the disastrous merger of those enterprises, and the even more destructive leveraged buyout of the …
Issue: July-August 2011
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
… On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 … pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and … his home in Compton, California, to Pan Pacific Park in the Los Angeles Fairfax District. There, he joined thousands …
The College’s New Dean
… Rakesh Khurana , Bower professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of …
Issue: March-April 2014
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
… The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 … I feel no affection and to an editor with whom on ninety of a hundred points I must rush to disagree. They would not …
Making the United States Competitive
… The United States is struggling: wages are stagnant, … says Michael Porter , Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), U.S. firms are … but they’re not producing a rising standard of living for American workers. An economy isn’t competitive …