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Off the Shelf
… Detail of an image of the million-degree solar corona taken by the TRACE satellite, from Nearest Star. Lockheed Martin/NASA …
The Undergraduate: Goodbye, L.A.
… My younger brother and I were raking grass off the driveway when the … their calico skirts and Vuitton bags and blond hair that rises to a slight peak and then falls in sunflower petals; …
Issue: January-February 2014
From the Archives: Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur?
… Has the start-up economy stalled? Are American businesses … retrospectively seems ill-timed: right at the peak of the dot-com boom. But what about that case study on a … of creativity within established businesses and new enterprises? ~The Editors WHAT APPLICATIONS might they suggest, …
Stirring the Pudding
… Bid farewell to the genteel shabbiness of the Hasty Pudding building on Holyoke Street. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has agreed to acquire the …
This Financial Meltdown, and the Next One
… A panel of professors convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean … social sciences Stephen M. Kosslyn on February 11 analyzed the causes of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009, the … Kenneth Rogoff , who has studied the origins of financial crises and warned about the current one before it unfolded, …
A Place Like Home
… died in 1930 and left to Harvard Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man , a Franz Hals, a Rubens, a Holy Family by Murillo, a small El Greco, and about 15 other paintings, as well as sculptures, furniture, pottery, … by Jim Harrison Aaron and Nettie Naumburg had one of the great New York apartments—a 14-room, …
Issue: November-December 2002
Dispatches from the Front
… rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick that momentarily closes the distance between New York and the Iraqi capital—or … Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, M.B.A. '66, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority ~ Sara Houghteling … her fifteenth reunion, her Harvard classmates expressed surprise at her pursuit of a military career because "We all …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Networked Student
… The paradox of the technologically sophisticated … connectivity. Independence comes from the portability of cellular phones, pagers, laptop computers, and palm-sized … service providers play host to the plethora of infant enterprises. Thomas Fallows '99 came up with the idea of starting …
The Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has awarded Jorge Campos ’21, of Los Angeles, and Reeda Iqbal ’21, of Brentwood, New York, the 2020 David and Mimi Aloian …
Issue: November-December 2020
Liftoff
… The Harvard Campaign , officially launched on September 21 … Health (HSPH). • Financial aid : Much as student need has risen—visibly in the College, but no less urgently for … example, and what was the academy’s role in countering the rise of “truthiness” (Stephen Colbert’s coinage for …
From Passive to “Immersive Learning”
… “Our students are way ahead of us technologically,” says Susan D. Jones, an associate professor who teaches courses on the history of medicine, science, and technology at the … increasingly part of the conversation. Jones points to the rise of immersive learning and online education, “in which …
Issue: September-October 2011
Harvard Adopts Reforms as Higher Ed Turmoil Continues
… A summer of turmoil in higher education continued this week, as … and Brown University announced major settlement deals with the Trump administration, while Harvard made a series of appointments and administrative changes that appear …
One-Quarter of Eligible Professors Accept Retirement Program
… of the 176 senior faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and four professional …
Wearable Robots
… “Robot” suggests constructions of synthetics and steel, from enormous machines on factory floors to the Roombas that vacuum floors …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Endowment: Each School’s Stake
… Harvard’s endowment, valued at $36.9 billion as of last June 30, in fact belongs to the separate schools and other academic departments. The large chart shows the share of the endowment owned by each (the Faculty of Arts and …
Issue: January-February 2009