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Commencement and Alumni Events
… and Stanford University’s Meier and Lane provostial professor of medicine Abraham Verghese . For details and updates on … and guest poet Arthur Sze , whose many books include The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems, Sanders …
Issue: May-June 2025
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 …
Samuel Huntington, Prophet
… Even by the relaxed standards of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … was “chosen by the publisher of the article that gave rise to the book and [was] not one that he particularly …
Issue: January-February 2018
Looking at the Cosmos through a Feminine Lens
… In a new exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, artist Anna Von … and hand-stitched quilts to focus on the life and work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, A.B. 1892 , a female astronomer … a century ago, and whose work led to the first method of measuring distances between stars. The craftsmanship …
The Bruce Museum
… “Doc” Edgerton, on display this fall in an exhibit at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the 1930s, Edgerton, an MIT professor of electrical engineering, developed technology that used …
Issue: September-October 2016
"Wade in the Water"
… “Giving care is an ultimate act of love and hope, and hope is an act of communion,” said associate professor Dr. Joia Mukherjee, M.P.H. ’01 at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of …
Crimson Construction
… than 600 structures spread across Cambridge, Allston, and the Longwood Medical Area—declined by nearly two-thirds by 2022, from a pre-pandemic peak of nearly a billion dollars a year. But as any visitor to … from the engineering complex, in the form of the “enterprise research campus”; a new performance center for the …
Issue: September-October 2024
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 …
Pictures of an Exhibition
… The “Juggling the Middle Ages” exhibition, now open at … Washington, D.C. (through February 28), plumbs the history of a medieval tale of a juggler’s devotion to the Virgin Mary; its rediscovery …
Of Mice and Mating
… provide intense parental care, which appears to influence their offspring’s mating preferences later in life. In recent … scientists have proposed this “sexual imprinting” as one of the main mechanisms that drive explosive speciation …
Issue: March-April 2018
Janos Plesch
… prescribed indefinite bed rest. But somehow Keynes heard of an émigré physician, Janos Plesch. This was before … penicillin, but Plesch was able to prescribe Prontosil—the first of the sulfa drugs. God knows where he got it. The … his autobiography—to expose young children to tanning machines in order to prepare them for exposure to the sun. …
Issue: January-February 2004
Off the Beaten Track
… and written. His role as a team anthropologist and director of research for an interactive Quest expedition to Australia drew the investigative eye and sharp pencil of a grade-school student in Toms River, New Jersey; she …
Issue: January-February 2002
Down by the Riverside: A Progress Report
… The garden center that leases a 2.3-acre piece of Cambridge riverfront from Harvard is bringing out its flats of marigolds and petunias for another season, while …
Harvard's Annual Financial Report Fully Details 2009 Losses
… Updated The Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2009 … , published October 16, contains more than the usual amount of dramatic material, headlined by the $11-billion loss of … it is safe to estimate that the added interest expense will rise by an additional amount of the same magnitude—another …
The “Surprise” Team?
… Last April , the men’s basketball team gathered at the Harvard Club of Boston for its annual end-of-the-year banquet, to … the returning players that they had an opportunity to “surprise” people, just as he and his teammates had done during …