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A Rosetta Stone for Earthquakes
… Istanbul , a city of 14 million people and a crossroads of cultural exchange dating back millennia, may also be … where Turkey’s next major earthquake strikes. Cities along the North Anatolian Fault, which stretches from eastern …
Issue: November-December 2017
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s (RIAS) … engaging with one another. “This is a remarkable class of fellows,” said dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin , herself a … associate professor of sociology. “Reinventing Family: The Rise of Non-Normative Households in South Korea” Chaya …
Game, Match, and High Set
… Wright had a life-changing moment. He’d been invited to a professional match in Washington, D.C., that featured the legendary Rod Laver. Wright, an outstanding gymnast at … crouched, lower moving set than optimal, his body tends to rise up during his forward swing, taking his racquet upward …
Issue: May-June 2010
Allston Options and Actions
… With a near-term goal of establishing an expanded campus footprint across the Charles River during the next decade, Harvard released … the next 10 years. Might a science building be the first to rise as part of an Allston campus? Summers indicated that he …
Issue: September-October 2005
Ending an Epidemic
… An effective vaccine remains the best hope for ending the COVID-19 pandemic. As deaths … were under development—an unprecedented response in terms of scope, speed, and cooperative scientific effort to combat … Years ago, public-health experts “were quite surprised,” he says, “when they found that after vaccinating …
Issue: July-August 2020
A Certain Slant of Light
… fall , Houghton Library will publish a gift-book edition of some lesser-known lines by Emily Dickinson: her recipe for black cake, brief on the page but epic in scale. The librarians have twice … dessert, which calls for, among other things, two pounds of butter, five of raisins, and 19 eggs. As documented on …
Fustiness in the Fine Arts Department
… Fairfield Porter '28 was a realist painter in the midst of the abstract expressionist movement. He had an … and had five children, he was bisexual; indeed, one of his lovers, poet James Schuyler, lived with Porter and …
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… One of the of Harvard Alumni Association’s newest Shared Interest … Reunion Weekend Event on May 31, including a member of the fiftieth-reunion class. Founded last July, the group …
Issue: July-August 2014
History from Below
… said historian Vince Brown last year , is a perpetual state of war. He was quoting the formerly enslaved eighteenth-century British … colonial empires were created through vast networks of war and conquest, which created the displaced Africans …
Issue: March-April 2020
“The World Is Waiting”
… The $750 -million capital campaign for Harvard Medical School (HMS) kicked off with a gala dinner at the Boston Park Plaza hotel on … working down in Washington, at NIH [the National Institutes of Health].” The researcher’s group was baffled because …
Feeding an Addiction
… As commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, David A. Kessler, … I provided some numbers documenting the tremendous rise in the incidence of obesity and explained the flaws in …
Issue: July-August 2009
Chinese Trade Dragons
… China’s economy has grown more than five-fold during the last 20 years, adjusted for inflation—making it the … the U.S. economy. This rapid growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty . Concurrently, China has …
Reworking the Workplace
… late January by Clean Slate for Worker Power , a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. This is not just an academic problem, the report argues: in an era of flat wages and extreme … with the premise that the United States faces two linked crises: economic and political. “It would take an Amazon …
Issue: March-April 2020
Gut Health May Begin in the Mouth
… study published Thursday in Science , an international team of researchers—including one from Harvard—reported on strains of oral bacteria that, when swallowed in the 1.5 liters of saliva that people ingest every day, can …
Change at the Top
… Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since July 2014, will retire at the end of this year, concluding a quarter-century of Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2022