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Will Congress Fix the Testing Debacle?
… As Congress raced to craft a coronavirus stimulus bill in the second week of December, the question foremost on epidemiologist Michael … Mina’s mind was whether funding for accelerated production of rapid tests—$1 paper tests that can be used in the home …
Academic Harvard: The Inaugural Symposiums
… Visiting dignitaries from other colleges and universities, and friends of Harvard present for the occasion, were served a … science came together to discuss “Origins of Life: Surprises and Puzzles,” as members of the Origins of Life …
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); “ …
“An Extraordinarily Painful and Disorienting Time for Harvard”
… In an email message to the community, Alan M. Garber, who became interim president a week ago upon the resignation of President Claudine Gay , began by acknowledging “an … is striking. It arrives at a time when the present crises may be stimulating broader thinking about …
Baking Sourdough Bread Is a Survival Instinct
… project for Psychology 15 (“Social Psychology”) during the spring 2020 semester, he went not to his professor for advice, but to his grandmother. It wasn’t a bad … more commercial. When lockdowns began and deaths began to rise, Greenfield, 80, noticed that some of her theory’s …
Could College Be Free?
… G etting ahead— or getting by—is increasingly difficult in the United States without a college degree. The demand for … an all-time high, but so is the price tag. David Deming—professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and professor … despite being highly subsidized by taxpayers . “The rise of for-profit colleges has, in some ways, been caused …
Issue: January-February 2020
Off the Shelf
… Detail of an image of the million-degree solar corona taken by the TRACE satellite, from Nearest Star. Lockheed Martin/NASA …
Connecting the Harvard Dots
… If graduating seniors wondered whether Commencement marked the end of all their Harvard fun and learning, Robert R. Bowie Jr. … Day to tell them, “Hell, no!” In fact, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) promised, all young …
Issue: September-October 2010
Young Blood: A Scientific Quest for a Fountain of Youth
… Aging in the blood system can be reversed, Amy Wagers, an associate professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, reports in the …
“Building on the Continuity”
… This story concerns the events at Harvard during the spring of 1969, when … then denied those charges) . Suzanne Lynn wasn’t surprised: “I’m really glad to hear of the consciousness of the …
Jean Martin , Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Dear, Gentle, Saintly Mark Twain
… Just short of 60 and deeply in debt because of his failed publishing firm, Samuel Clemens set out from … retraced Clemens's route as part of his research for Around the World with Mark Twain (Arcade Publishing, $27.95). It is …
Arts and Sciences’ Inflection Point
… Students of learning and teaching at Harvard will find two especially interesting disclosures in the new annual report from Faculty of Arts and Sciences … through a joint MIT-Harvard Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines . It is examining circuits for intelligence; the …
Madeleine Albright Urges Graduates to Look Beyond America’s Borders
… on an unusually warm May afternoon, former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright, LL.D. ’97, called on the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) more than 500 soon-to-be … as neo-isolationists who allowed tyranny and lawlessness to rise again; or as those who solidified the global triumph of …
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
Centennial Medalists 2015
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who … books on myth, including the highly praised volume The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680–1860 . After a 25-year …