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The Berensons and Harvard
… in the fall of 1884, before Bernard Berenson (A.B. 1887) and … and Italian Renaissance art, amassing a vast collection they donated to Harvard (along with their Italian villa), they were a pair of eager college students with scant knowledge of the art …
America’s Riven Politics
… Osnos ’98, who reported on a changing People’s Republic of China for The New Yorker , was struck by the changes in the United … and technological: the loss of small-town newspapers, the rise of social media, and the resulting shift of political …
A Dashboard for Artificial Intelligence
… Much has been made of the inscrutability of generative artificial-intelligence … author’s opinions are shaping what they read. The danger arises when users face content from AI models without …
“Fake News” and the Post-Trump Media
… In his 1997 essay “The Arc of the Moral Universe,” philosopher Joshua Cohen, Ph.D. ’79, asked whether the injustice of American slavery contributed to its demise. To anyone but …
From the Archives: Harvard’s Womanless History
… who retired last summer as 300 th Anniversary University Professor, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize (historians’ highest honor) for A Midwife’s Tale …
Don’t Pass the Bacon
… provides “clear evidence that regular consumption of red meat, especially processed meat [such as bacon or hot … to premature death,” according to lead author Frank Hu , professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health , in a press release. The study, published this week in The Archives of Internal …
Making a Case against the Courts
… How will Americans know that their Supreme Court is truly dedicated to interpreting the … Attorney, activist, and author Phyllis Schlafly, A.M. ’45, offered some guidelines while discussing “The Culture War in the Courts” on October 15 as part of the 2007-2008 Dean’s Lecture Series at the Radcliffe …
Issue: January-February 2008
A Lover of All Things English
… student at Harvard, Erin Moore ’98 already yearned to be on the other side of the Atlantic, where the authors she studied lived, … institutionalized study-abroad programs, she took a year off, got her first passport, and departed for King’s College …
Issue: September-October 2015
The Center for Wellness and Health Communication
… fit without being well," says Keli M. Ballinger, suggesting the holistic approach of the University Health Services' (UHS) "wellness center," … for the UHS Mind/Body Medical Institute (MBMI), an outpost of the eponymous program that Mind/Body Medical Institute …
Issue: March-April 2002
“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, …
Antisemitism on Campus—And Beyond
… Sunday afternoon , September 22, hundreds of Harvard community members donning miniature Israeli flags and hostage dog tags filed into Sanders Theatre for a summit about antisemitism and anti-Zionism on … campus after October 7, while appalling, did not surprise me.” Danny Denenberg ’26, Harvard Hillel’s Israel …
Centennial Medalist Citations
… easy to begin a testimonial for Bruce Alberts with a list of his achievements as an international advocate for science. As head of the National Academy of Sciences, as a special presidential … PhD ’77, fine arts The story of Keith Christiansen’s rise to prominence as one of this country’s most esteemed …
Bruegel’s Art of Mass Appeal
… “My father was a professional painter who painted everything from life,” Thomas professor of history of art and architecture Joseph L. Koerner …
Issue: November-December 2016
Strengths—and Warning Signs
… For the fourth consecutive year, Harvard has reported a … fourth consecutive year, the University’s senior financial officers have cautioned against taking the good times for … Harvard’s proposal for development of its envisioned “enterprise research campus,” on 36 acres of Allston Landing when …
Issue: January-February 2018
Commencement Confetti
… VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary … viz., 536 people took degrees from the Kennedy School of Government, and they hailed from 70 countries on six … whose service to the University is at the core of our enterprise—those members of our faculty who have recently …
Issue: July-August 2003