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Harvard Names Open Access Architect Director of New Office for Scholarly Publishing
… Stuart M. Shieber '81, Welch professor of computer science, who led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in its historic adoption of …
Humanists All
… Editor’s note: Harvard Magazine published “ The Market-Model University: Humanities in the Age of Money ,” by James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield, in the … then have only intensified. Here, Engell takes stock of the humanities and arts, in the academy and in society, …
Issue: January-February 2023
Off the Shelf
… A History in Ideas , by David R. Armitage, Blankfein professor of history (Knopf, $27.95).The planet has not been globally at war since 1945, but “The …
Issue: March-April 2017
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. Hunn ’21 recruited … served Harvard in the Houston area, which has seen a rapid rise in applicants; he is a current committee cochair. Koch, …
Issue: September-October 2008
Off the Shelf
… accent … Recent books with a Harvard accent … 1007 … Off the Shelf … Off the Shelf … article …
Not “Mickey Mousing”
… A hundred years ago , a night at the movies meant live music. Even low-end joints had at … grander establishments employed 50-piece orchestras (some of which, by the 1920s, were replaced by massive Wurlitzer … But decades after the talkie invasion and the mass die-off of silent movies, there are niches where the art of film …
Issue: July-August 2018
Freewheeling at 50 M.P.H.
… Swooping left, then right, now cruising straight ahead at the speed of a fresh gale, then suddenly diving into a hollow and … flying up the road, into a future that can hold surprises: some of them started out barely able to ride a bike, …
Evolution, Synthesized
… Few people would have the credentials, history, background, or brazen confidence … a title as What Evolution Is. But few would deny the right of Ernst Mayr, S.D. '80, Agassiz professor of zoology … controversies--such as which line of dinosaurs gave rise to the modern birds--in order to keep from confusing …
Issue: March-April 2002
How Life Began
… On a young, rocky planet, how might chemicals have come together in just the right way to form the very first cells? How … on advantageous traits to the next generation? The origins of life are especially murky because the geological record—the layers of rock and embedded fossils that hold clues about the …
Issue: July-August 2019
The Endowment Manager's Perspective
… year 2009 in mid September (see www.harvardmagazine.com and the November-December issue for reports). Given widespread … Her response follows. During the first four months of the fiscal year that began on July 1, 2008—when I joined … market conditions, affected Harvard’s endowment—and those of every other major university. We expect that when our …
Issue: September-October 2009
Remaking Paradise
… When Hurricane Marilyn smashed through the fish tanks, underwater observatory, and kitschy collection of T-shirt and souvenir shops known as Coral World on St. … He describes the day when, as they sweated over drawings, machines buzzed, and crews hammered away, someone saw whales …
A Millennial Mystery
… and scholars can visit Houghton Library to investigate The Songs of Argus Zion as a possible “map” to the whereabouts of prophetess Joanna Southcott’s chest of sealed …
Issue: January-February 2019
Where Decisionmaking Is Measured
… The split second in which a decision occurs gives rise to a … immediate surroundings influence the decision? The moment of decision has proven an elusive object of study, partly …
Restaurants Rampant
… In 2003, Ferran Adrià appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, becoming only the … in eating as an experience,” Norton explains. “There’s a rise in top restaurants that cater to people wanting not …
Issue: July-August 2011
Parachute Specialist
… , Dick Bolles ’50 could be forgiven for slowing down. But the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? —the perennially … Color Is Your Parachute? remains a largely Bollesian enterprise. Eschewing secretaries, he spends two to three hours …
Issue: January-February 2016