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The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
… For her as-told-to biography of the late artist Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South , Erin D. Kelly , Ph.D. ’95, was …
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
… Day (Thursday, May 27) starts with breakfast on the Gropius Lawns, 35 Oxford St., from 7 to 8 a.m. , before … Commencement luncheon on May 27 at noon. … Graduate School of Arts & Sciences - Commencement & Reunion 2010 … Graduate School of Arts and Sciences … article …
Measuring Impact in the “Missing Middle”
… and marketing blandishments), willing shoppers choose the products and services they want, and companies measure their sales, cash flow, profits, and return on capital—financial metrics that managers … founded in 1999, lends to small agricultural enterprises—for example, Latin American coffee cooperatives—that …
Issue: September-October 2015
Life at the Epicenter
… innovation butts up against cultural ethos. As a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison law and medical schools, …
Issue: July-August 2005
Crows Know How to Have Fun
… Long gone are the days when animal behaviorists, in the tradition of Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, assumed animals were … Skinner theory to be able to say this, but it’s no surprise that animals experience positive feelings when they do …
Core Curriculum
… Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce … billion a day, then the dollar will fall and interest rates rise, and it may not be pretty unless it happens slowly and …
Further Financial Fallout
… Understandably , the Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year … in mid October, is dominated by the plunge in value of the endowment (see “$11 Billion Less,” November-December … 2009, it appears that the added interest expense will rise by an additional amount of the same magnitude—another …
Issue: January-February 2010
Stem Cells in the New Year
… Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute , offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of …
Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
… On the first Wednesday afternoon in April, Daniel Lord Smail … into pairs, to brainstorm about the characteristics of their families’ traditional meals. It’s a perfectly … safely at the beginning of the term, other problems arise. The number of first-year students will be at least 20 …
Play at the Plate
… Look at the batter as he steps into the box—where does he stand? Far … get him on the outside corner; too close, we’ll back him off, bust him on the fists. If he edges up toward the front … It’s about creating false expectations, because a surprised hitter, fielder, or runner is frequently a beaten one. …
Issue: July-August 2009
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
… A map is not merely an image of the earth, precisely plotted and filed as a scientific … dimensions. Maps from the eighteenth century aided those profiting from the Atlantic slave trade; twentieth-century …
Law of Large Letters
… A capital campaign often changes the look of a campus—especially Harvard’s current one, with … as the turf within . So it came as something of a surprise in November when Harvard Athletics and Fenway Sports …
Issue: March-April 2018
Nine Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
… The National Academy of Sciences today elected 72 new … senior lecturer, Harvard Medical School Michael Hopkins, professor of mathematics William G. Kaelin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute …
Goldie Named Director of Harvard Institute for Global Health
… Sue J. Goldie , Lee professor of public health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School …
Views from the Top
… During a meeting on April 15—Good Friday, and before the first Passover seder he celebrates with family … Although the pandemic continues, coping with the endless crises it imposed on a residential academic institution no longer commanded the almost exclusive attention of University leaders. Indeed, on April 25, Bacow advised …
Issue: July-August 2022