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Repressed Memory
… Are some experiences so horrific that the human brain seals them away, only to recall them years later? The concept of “repressed memory,” known by the diagnostic term … hope to answer these questions in the future. “Clearly the rise of Romanticism, at the end of the Enlightenment, …
Issue: January-February 2008
A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech
… Ordinarily , a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean might be expected to devote … in new academic priorities and planning how to secure the financial resources to effect them. When Hopi Hoekstra … should remain on the sidelines when public controversies arise beyond the immediate purview of higher …
Moorfield Storey
… 1866, stood up to speak in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, the United States had just invaded the Philippines, … raced across the country, and he became the first president of the newly formed Anti-Imperialist League. Born into a … comfortable but not wealthy, Storey gained the sense of security he needed to chart an independent course. He …
Issue: July-August 2018
In This Mass Extinction, the Enemy Is Us
… Writing in the May 25 issue of the New Yorker, author Elizabeth Kolbert quotes Fisher professor of natural history Andrew Knoll on the subject of …
Addressing Disability
… The voices of disabled Harvard community members are finding … and Inclusion Faculty Award to Law School visiting professor Michael Ashley Stein; the event was a direct result … of Hannah Wong The changing student population gives rise to new demands for educating those with diverse needs. …
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… “We’re energized, we’re growing, and we’re on the cusp of new things,” reports Acey Welch ’53, president of the Alumnae-i Network for Harvard Women (ANHW; …
Issue: March-April 2015
Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns
… Gay, who was named president in December 2022 , assumed office last July 1, and was formally installed in a Harvard … Garber will serve as interim president. Gay’s message to the community reads: It is with a heavy heart but a deep … words because I have looked forward to working with so many of you to advance the commitment to academic excellence that …
“Hard Problems” in the Social Sciences
… Eminent scholars of the social sciences gathered at Harvard in April 2010 to … in their disciplines. But that was just the beginning of the conversation: the event organizers created an online …
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
"Days With the Family Realist"
… A doorknob on a chicken my grandmother said once, meaning useless, stupid. Most of us, most of the time, are that exactly. Not that we don’t have our …
Issue: July-August 2009
Back to the Drawing Board
… Two major Harvard construction projects have gone back to the drawing board as a result of civic objections to the architects’ designs. In … Buildings, Many Obstacles,” May-June, page 66). Quoting one of the commissioners, who had called the previous design …
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
… first issue declared, in 2004, “We are living in an era of demented self-censorship…a time when a magazine like … Seven issues later, at more than 200 pages apiece, the Brooklyn-based n+1 continues to air trenchant views. … in the New York Times Magazine, describing n+1’ s enterprise as “a generational struggle against laziness and …
Issue: January-February 2010
The “Scandalous Mansion”
… Built between 1899 and 1902, the Ayer Mansion on Commonwealth Avenue is a rare surviving … campaign, featuring heartfelt testimonials and visions of cherubic children and tropical locales, that sold … and a marble semi-circular staircase with glass-mosaic risers. They lead to an apse-like “stage” on which Ellen …
Issue: January-February 2017
A Walk through Garden in the Woods
… In this video, Al Levin ’56, M.D. ’60, shows off his passion for “doll’s eyes,” “Indian soap,” and other botanical treasures of New England. Levin, a semiretired cardiologist, is …
Issue: September-October 2009
Endowment Exposure to Fossil-Fuel Production Less than Two Percent of Assets
… Some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for … held in the endowment —timed for the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day last April—Harvard Management Company (HMC) … data—in this case involving information on: portfolio enterprises’ baseline greenhouse-gas emissions, what steps they …