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Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
… Cities are an integral part of Earth’s future: by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in an urban area. … countries are more than one third urban. And we see the rise of mega cities like Karachi and Kinshasa in places that …
The Truth About Imposter Syndrome
… In the first few months of my freshman year, I was told, … the SEAS Graduate Council defines as “a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident … that one has fooled others, which could actually only arise from putting on some kind of conscious performance, …
Issue: May-June 2022
Termites’ Cathedral Mounds
… mystified scientists. In each colony’s underground nest, the millimeter-sized insects store wood for food, cultivate … when they measured carbon dioxide concentration levels surprised them. Because the top of the mound is hotter than the nest, keeping internal …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Finish Line
… Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, … history, surpassing by a wide margin the original goal of $2.1 billion." For the record, the exact sum recorded, according to the University Development Office, was $2,653,396,000, but who's counting? Goal Funds …
“Theater Is Church”
… In one scene of Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King, the characters sing all of “Never Too … needed the breathing room television allowed. Hall was surprised and “honored” to be given the reins, knowing how few …
Issue: July-August 2020
The Incident on Ware Street
… On july 16, Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. returned from Logan Airport to the Harvard-owned house he rents on Ware Street. The front … another passerby dialed 911. Sergeant James Crowley, of the Cambridge police department, responded to the call. …
Issue: September-October 2009
International Student Ban Casts a Shadow on Harvard Commencement
… On the first day of activities for Harvard’s 2025 Commencement ceremonies, the steps of Widener Library were awash with color. In knee-high …
Rethinking the American High School
… When Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine embarked on a six-year study of 30 of the most effective public high schools in the United States, …
Issue: May-June 2019
What Makes the Human Mind?
… During the past few decades, a mounting body of evidence has shown … observed in nonhuman animal species, a divergence arises from the ways in which multiple capacities interact in …
Issue: November-December 2008
What Does the $2.8B NCAA Settlement Mean for Harvard?
… (NCAA) , ending a five-year legal saga and paving the way for colleges to directly pay student athletes. The House settlement (which, under the name of Arizona State University swimmer Grant House, combined … In January, the Ivy League announced it was opting out of the settlement, exempting it from most of the …
National Academy of Sciences Elects Harvard Members
… Recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research,” the National Academy of Sciences on April 29 announced the election of 84 new members, 11 of them from Harvard’s faculties of …
Lessons from the Limelight
… years ago. Jerold S. Kayden ’75, M.C.R.-J.D. ’79, hatched the idea for it and Myra Mayman, head of the Office for the Arts, embraced it. “I was president of the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Ross Gay Finds the Right Ground at the Radcliffe Institute
… By the end of the hour, Ross Gay had people all but swaying in the aisles. A poet and professor at Indiana University whose 2015 collection, Catalog …
The President's Grandfather
… Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum 3,700 treasures in all: archaic jades, … case, made by Ahasuerus Fromanteel about 1660 is one of the first-known pendulum clocks; a swing marks a second gone. A favorite of Charles A. Ditmas Jr., G '45, honorary keeper of the …
The Swinging Lingmans
… In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their … squads. "He watches all my home matches and I see all of his at home," says Susanna. "We talk after every match, … person I'm closest to in the world. He knows every aspect of my life." The siblings share many similarities, including …
Issue: May-June 2004