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The Director’s Half-Decade
… With The Harvard Campaign concluded and a new University president in office, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has pivoted to … is charged with engaging a wildly diverse cohort of 371,000 alumni worldwide. Starting with the class of …
Issue: May-June 2019
Messages from the Plant World
… The idea that mild stress might lead to health benefits is … the concept has a name: hormesis. Plants given low doses of an herbicide, for example, can actually become stronger … and grow better. Harvard Medical School associate professor David Sinclair’s discovery that a family of plant …
Issue: September-October 2005
High Art under the Hammer
… There’s a kit of items —tape measure, flashlight, camera, … UV light—Brooke Lampley ’02 takes along to appraise a work of art. “If anything fluoresces under the UV, that indicates that it was added more recently, and …
Issue: May-June 2012
Ghost Story
… APPROACHING HIS FIFTIETH REUNION, the author, class of ’68, engages the ghost of his … well. And who were you and what did you bring to this enterprise? Not much, beyond youthful enthusiasm and high ideals, …
The Ginkgo’s Secrets: A Video
… Senior research scientist Peter Del Tredici of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum— see “The Living Dinosaur” by Jill Jonnes, from the … 1980s. In this video, he explains some unusual features of the ginkgo and shows some living specimens of the tree, …
University People
… ( Commencement Confetti , July-August 2017, page 19), dean of freshmen Thomas A. Dingman said he will step down next June. Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana made the announcement on …
Issue: January-February 2018
Bruce Jenkins
… As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce … the film projector. "I love it--it's the last vestige of the machine age in contemporary use," he says. "A decade … will be in a film archive or museum." As the new curator of the Harvard Film Archive, succeeding its founder, Vlada …
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
… at least co-created it, and at least for a certain stripe of American male. Alongside fellow Harvard men Henry Beard ’67 and Rob Hoffmann ’67, M.B.A. ’72, Kenney made a career out of his college extracurricular by taking the Harvard Lampoon national. Beyond its parodies of other …
An Exercise Pill for the Brain?
… One of the many benefits of endurance exercise (a topic covered extensively in a 2004 … cover article and subsequently), is that it stimulates the growth of new brain cells and improves cognitive …
Understanding Welfare Reform
… One million children pushed into poverty: That was the prediction of a widely cited study on the likely effect of welfare reform, released just before Congress passed the …
Issue: November-December 2004
A. Clayton Spencer Appointed President of Bates
… vice president for policy since 2005, has been elected the eighth president of Bates College , effective July 1. Spencer has worked in … role in issues such as the 2004 formulation and expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), meant to …
Back to the Bond Market
… On March 5, the University placed a new offering of $750 million of … own building activity (which excludes the private enterprise research campus now rising in Allston across Western …
"Dissing Evolution"
… Professor of anthropology Daniel Lieberman believes we can better understand the history and future of human evolution by pondering a … have changed enough in such a short time to explain this rise in disease. Rather, their health changed when they …
Issue: May-June 2009
The Olympics, via Powers
… If John Powers ’70 of the Boston Globe is not the dean of Olympics sportswriters, he is at least decanal. Powers, …
The Elephant in the Room: Sports and Sexism
… on women in sports—long-planned, and yet suddenly of the moment—opened with what moderator Janet Rich-Edwards ’84 … any interview request, “You can’t say no.” She’s been surprised by some of the female athletes appearing in ESPN The …