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The TMEC Performers
… The Tosteson Medical Education Center’s spring recital series at Harvard Medical School featured these performers and programs: Tina Liu, doctoral … “Black keys” Étude, op. 10, no. 5 (Chopin) Clara Starkweather, HMS ’17: “Ondine,” from Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel); “ …
Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”
… Sarah Karmon, the new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association … as deputy executive director, since 2018, Karmon saw the rise of alumni shared-interest groups (SIGs), contested …
Issue: March-April 2023
“All Things Considered” Considered
… Melissa Block ’83 , a host of National Public Radio’s (NPR) flagship program All Things Considered ( ATC ) since 2003, spoke at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on March 11 about … “ All Things Considered Considered.” Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the institute and Jones professor of American studies, …
Deprivation’s Mark on the Brain
… In 2000, professor of pediatrics Charles Nelson went on a trip that would change the course of his life—and the lives of dozens of others. As …
Issue: January-February 2023
News from the HAA
… Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their … For Robert J. Glaser, S.B. '40, M.D. '43, a former professor at Harvard Medical School, former dean of the … Harwich, Mass. Executive director, Center for Women & Enterprise. Giving, Harvard-wide Robert G. Stone Photograph by …
Issue: July-August 2003
Buttonhook and Aloha
… Talk about spectacular entrances: In his first game of high-school football, second-string quarterback Neil Rose … his team trailing and less than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Rose's first pass connected for a … on the field." That fluidity includes the sleek combination of Rose and wide receiver Carl Morris '03, who last year set …
Issue: September-October 2001
Brevia
… Chao Center Celebration Harvesting one of the fruits of its capital campaign the day before unveiling … Americans in College history. Stanford’s yield continued to rise sharply, reaching nearly 77 percent, as did Yale’s , …
Issue: July-August 2014
Completing the Century
… American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, $45) presents meaty profiles of 483 impressive figures who died between January 1, 1976, …
Issue: January-February 2005
The Week’s Events
… Bok, Three Hundredth Anniversary University Research Professor and former Harvard president. Sanders Theatre. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2012, at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class picture, …
Issue: May-June 2012
All about the Details
… If you arrived early Saturday morning at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) on Presidents' Day weekend, you might have been surprised at the hordes of well-dressed students milling about, most lugging …
Issue: March-April 2002
Commencement Address, the Genre
… to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be … sedated." Not always so, believes Peter J. Smith, editor of Onward! 25 Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best …
Tropical Abstractions
… The art opening on July 1 had the usual ingredients: about … ARKA Gallery in Vladivostok, Russia, on the Sea of Japan in eastern Siberia—made it an historic occasion: … he goes out early in the morning, when the sun has barely risen. The still water becomes a mirror, “and you see …
Issue: September-October 2010
Bluffing the Baritone
… from two to 20 times longer than expected relative to their size. In these birds, the trachea typically loops and … species, in birds large and small, sometimes in both sexes of a species and in others just in males. In one species, TE … when the structures that would allow speech might have arisen. Fitch's work supplies no answer to the question of …
The Undergraduate Angle
… and news stories, conducting research, and performing other editorial tasks. Elizabeth A. Gudrais (left), from Red … summer as a reporting intern at Newsday. Kirstin E. Butler, of Geneva, New York, and Currier House, is concentrating in the history of art. During the summer, she was an intern at the Whitney …
Polony Power
… "Polonies" are tiny colonies of DNA, about one micron in diameter, grown on a glass microscope slide (the word itself is a contraction of "polymerase colony"). To create them, researchers first …
Issue: January-February 2004