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Who Belongs at Harvard?
… The harry elkins widener Memorial Library houses 3.5 million … limestone chambers. It is the largest university repository of books and manuscripts in the world, and it sits in the middle of Harvard Yard, where it serves as the sweeping backdrop …
Issue: January-February 2019
The “Global Chemical Experiment”
… Elsie Sunderland grew up where the sea was as present as the land: a small rural community … tied to the ocean. But Sunderland, Cabot associate professor of environmental science and engineering, also remembers an …
Issue: July-August 2018
Singin’ in the Rain
… The University's 375th birthday celebration placed students … more than 40 student groups were asked to perform as part of the October 14 festivities . But the precisely calibrated … at four distinct sites in Harvard Yard, over the course of one hour—was no match for the anniversary evening's …
The Master Leads
… In the fall of 1973, Robert J. Kiely ’60, his wife, Jana, and their three young children moved into Adams House, and he began a 26-year tenure as master. Now Loker professor of English emeritus, Kiely was asked by the Adams …
Issue: November-December 2011
Engineering a School’s Future
… One hundred days into his new position as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and … cohort of professors and tenure-track faculty members has risen nearly 80 percent in the past two decades, to 85 this …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
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, …
Professors Condemn Harvard’s Rebuff of Michelle Jones and Chelsea Manning
… was a bad public-relations episode for Harvard. On Tuesday, the Marshall Project, a news organization covering criminal … that University leadership had reversed the admission of Michelle Jones, who had been recommended for admission to … program; she had served 20 years in prison for the murder of a child she had as a teenager, but subsequently earned a …
Behind the Scenes: Covering Opioids
… Sustainers like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. … his home town, the now impoverished, postindustrial city of Pontiac, Michigan . I knew I had to get on a plane and … partners to better the world—connecting with the University of Michigan to combat inner-city poverty and the opioids …
It’s “Not the Earth that Needs Fixing”
… Speaking at the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s Class Day, climate … and alive rather than merely scenic or decorative.” The rise of restoration ecology “focuses on repairing …
First Principles, on the Web
… Harvard scholars do so in all political and social weathers, of course, sometimes through interesting collaborative ventures. Two of note bear in diverse ways on ethical conduct and on human …
Issue: January-February 2003
Time to “Change the Channel”
… Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), was expected to tell colleagues …
Issue: November-December 2010
Harvard Adds Five Computer Scientists to Faculty
… computer scientists are among nine new hires who will join the faculty of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) this fall, the …
Believe It or Not!
… For me, it’s not the commemorative McDonald’s commercials, nor the reverent … Stewart hoax persists more than a decade later because some of us want to believe it. Kevin Young’s new book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, …
Issue: November-December 2017
Galbraith v. the Supply-Siders
… Richard Parker, who directs the program on economics and journalism at the Kennedy … a meticulous, meaty, and colorful authorized biography of a liberal icon, the Warburg professor of economics emeritus -- John Kenneth Galbraith: His …
Issue: March-April 2005
Flying Squirrel
… Inside the Pilatus Porter airplane, he zipped his wingsuit, lowered … per hour—as fast as a racecar and without the advantage of solid ground. That 5.5-minute flight over Argentina’s … I have to make sure that what I am doing on one side of my body is exactly mirrored on the other side,” Montagna …
Issue: March-April 2023