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Videos from the Library Test Kitchen
… What form should Harvard libraries assume in the twenty-first century? Should they simply vanish into … course "Bibliotheca II: Library Test Kitchen," taught by professor of Romance languages and literatures Jeffrey Schnapp, …
John Manning Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
… new leadership. President Drew Faust today named Bromley professor of law John F. Manning , who has been deputy dean, as dean, effective July 1. The appointment of Manning, a graduate of Harvard College …
Economic Realities in Allston
… Harvard’s October filing of a new Institutional Master Plan Notification Form … describing projects it hopes to build in Allston during the next decade, marked the formal withdrawal of the … ago. Later, a mixed-use institutional building is slated to rise on the southernmost portion of the Charlesview …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Oldest Object
… orbiting Earth detect a star exploding anywhere in the universe, Edo Berger gets an alert on his cell phone. At 3:55 a.m. on April 23, the assistant professor of astronomy learned of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) from a star …
Issue: September-October 2009
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … with the recipient’s name and degree—except in the case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for whom the previous honorand rose … John Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee. The inventor of the World Wide Web, now 3Com Founders Professor at MIT. …
Issue: July-August 2011
It’s Up—It’s Good!
… The play that shone the brightest spotlight on David … School in San Juan Capistrano, California. Quarterbacks are often the best all-around athletes on their high-school … attempting to block the kick. Field-goal kicks need to rise more steeply than kickoffs, in order to clear the line. …
Issue: September-October 2012
Our Psychotropic Lives
… think that as humans, we are somehow above biology—capable of self-restraint and subverting base urges. But professor … to biological urges that are complex and sophisticated, but they are biological urges all the same. In his most recent … substances to be used with caution included books. With the rise of the novel and the spread of literacy, a new fear of …
Issue: March-April 2009
The Voter-Fraud Disinformation Campaign
… implemented for decades, become so polarized in a matter of months? A new report by a research team at Harvard’s … Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society argues that the myth that vote-by-mail is susceptible to widespread … the least politically engaged Americans about the security of vote-by-mail. The study, which was led by Berkman …
Quest for the Best
… in college and later in life? One model, proven over the past six years, involves intensive enrichment before … them to a campus during the summer, free of charge, for five weeks of academic work, leadership training, and counseling on …
Off the Shelf
… ’56 and Todd London (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26). The avant-garde director, famous for his role in My Dinner … chocolate chip marshmallow cookies: experiential learning of an unusual sort, with very hands-on making—and eating. … Paarlberg. Ph.D. ’75 (Knopf, $28.95). The Wellesley professor emeritus, a scholar of international food and …
Issue: November-December 2020
Practically Perfect in Every Way
… fluorescent lamps and littered with empty soda bottles or coffee cups, undergraduates often find themselves heading off to bed—or staying awake through the … The pressures to do it all and to do well continue to rise, while students find themselves less and less prepared …
Issue: July-August 2007
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 …
"Africa for Beginners"
… getting on a plane, but I have no idea where I’m landing.” Of course White knew that her flight was bound for Ghana. But despite her efforts to prepare for a summer there, the New York City native found a concrete sense of the place frustratingly elusive. After taking a course on …
Issue: November-December 2009
Where the Students Are
… on everyone from College students who have navigated their undergraduate years to those who have mastered … law, or business. But the Univeristy consists, famously, of separate “tubs” devoted to distinct kinds of teaching and research. As if one could not tell from the …
Issue: July-August 2005
Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
… bud: marijuana has many names, but an even greater number of chemical constituents, from THC, the psychoactive component, to cannabidiols such as CBD, … users, because I think this is really going to surprise our listeners. Staci Gruber: Sure. In general, as I …