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The Workforce: Thomas A. Kochan
… An interview with Thomas A. Kochan , Bunker professor of management, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Read the … skills, and opportunities to add value to their enterprise—and then be able to negotiate a fair sharing of the …
Issue: September-October 2012
National Academy of Sciences Elects Harvard Faculty Members
… The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates , among them …
Off the Shelf
… As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces Are … Wealth, by Juan Enriquez '81, M.B.A. '86, IAF '97, director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School … half a page. "The dominant language...and economic driver...of this century...is going to be GENETICS. Those who remain …
Issue: January-February 2002
Women in the Sciences
… In its report issued in May, the University's Task Force on Women in Science and … science: its data, shown below, demonstrate that plenty of undergraduate women study the natural sciences at … and women now outnumber men in Medical School and School of Public Health doctoral enrollments. But the tenured …
Issue: September-October 2005
“You Can’t Do It Alone”
… to be here at Harvard," comic actress Amy Poehler told the crowd of graduating seniors and their parents at Class Day on May 25. (Scroll down to view the video of her speech.) "I graduated from Boston College, which some …
Hats of Their Own
… Day duty at 6:15 a.m . While her male colleagues—in their top hats—entered Tercentenary Theatre “without even … she recalls, the guards kept her back until the gates officially opened to the public at 6:45 a.m. That never … it, she has waltzed into the Yard ever since. A version of that hat, developed by Sinsabaugh and Boston milliner …
Issue: May-June 2013
Microbes Eat the Past
… Eugene ("Buzz") Aldrin and Neil Armstrong bounced along the moon's dusty surface wearing the toughest work gear in the solar system. Moon suits were beautiful cocoons of high-tech polymers, convoluted joints, rubber, and fiberglass; 25 layers thick, resilient enough to shrug off hurtling micrometeoroids and insulate against the deep …
Issue: January-February 2002
A Controversial Critique of Teaching and Learning at Harvard
… Education (a London-based magazine), Summers discusses the six years he spent teaching and advising Harvard … He casts his students as "the post-pubescent children of notables," and writes that they "had already embraced the perspectives of the rich, the powerful and the unalienated, and they …
Harvard Portrait: Rohini Pande
… You become interested in things you’ve seen a lot of, says Rohini Pande ; for her—growing up in India—issues of poverty and gender were “first-order.” The Kamal professor of public policy witnessed protests …
Issue: May-June 2014
Allston Development Director Departs—Updated
… Christopher M. Gordon, who joined the University in 2005 to direct accelerated development of the University’s planned campus growth in Allston, has … General Hospital complex than anything that might rise at the unfinished Allston science site. The University …
Renewed, and New
… T he university is now clearly embarked on an historic spurt of physical growth and transformation. Even before a shovel … work just completed, under way, or about to start in other Harvard precincts suggests a building boom not seen … a developer to own one-third of the apartments in a high-rise complex rising now near the Longwood Medical Area. …
Issue: May-June 2005
Speaking Nature’s Language
… The powerful new gene-editing system Crispr-Cas9 “is a … he and many other scientists already consider it one of “the pillars of molecular biology right now.” A … uses of Crispr-Cas9 to edit human cells. Its subsequent rise as a gene-editing tool has been swift. The system …
Issue: May-June 2016
Harvard Goes Remote for January Term as Pandemic Intensifies
… 18, that Harvard will shift to remote operations during the January term (“wintersession”), because of rapidly rising COVID-19 cases. In a letter from the … activities to remote status, was prompted by “the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases locally and across the country, as …
Janitors Reach Contract Agreement with Harvard
… , it appeared that Harvard’s custodial staff might follow the dining workers’ decision to strike, a move that last … their contract expired. Janitors will receive wage raises of 12.5 percent over the life of the four-year contract, … Eugenio Villasente said in a statement. “Costs continue to rise in the Boston area….While the city came out of the …
Barry Mazur Awarded National Medal of Science
… Gade University Professor Barry Mazur will be awarded the National Medal of Science —one of 12 honorands who will be recognized in a …