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Poll: Who is the Most Famous Celebrity to Give a Harvard Commencement Address?
… From leaders of the free world, renowned authors, billionaire inventors, … Hollywood movie stars, to a world-famous media mogul, the University has seen a multitude of famous Commencement speakers. Now we ask you: who is the …
Finding Other Streets
… has lived only one life, thus far, but he’s considered another one—photographically. It’s the life on display in Other Streets , a 2019 collection of photos he took while studying in Vietnam as a Harvard … Born Đỗ Văn Hùng in Saigon in 1972, Erickson was one of more than 3,000 Vietnamese children—some orphans, some …
Issue: November-December 2020
Time to Tax Carbon
… Next year , representatives from nations around the world will meet in Paris to discuss a global … and its equivalents—a figure that captures the social costs of releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The … small losses in overall welfare because as energy prices rise, they’ll have to pay proportionally more of their total …
Issue: September-October 2014
Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?
… Arsenic , the weapon of choice for villains in Agatha Christie’s famed … way to combat acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a type of cancer that was, until recently, highly lethal. … called Pin1 when paired with all-trans retinoic acid. The research appears in Nature Communication, published on …
Touting Teaching
… In a year of heightened University focus on learning and teaching , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is premiering “Harvard’s Great …
The Undergraduate: Baby Talk
… About halfway through freshman year, one of my roommates made a startling confession. “You know, … you had a baby.” My roommates and I were draped across the futons in our common room, and as she said it, she burst … lack whatever complex mental or chemical processes comprise “maternal instinct.” When my half-sister first handed …
Issue: March-April 2014
"Bright Line" at the Business School
… having a "financial interest" or "formal position" in enterprises launched, run, or owned by students who are studying at the school. The first restriction means no ownership of equity, options, or debt in such ventures; the latter …
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … New York this season. On November 11, Ivy Pride Alliance LA offers a chance to tour the Automobile Driving Museum and …
Issue: November-December 2012
A Cucumber Coil Conundrum
… The cucumber tendril has long fascinated observant … Darwin explored the topic in On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants , published in 1865. He noted that a … questions for the team led by L. Mahadevan , de Valpine professor of applied mathematics. Mahadevan’s research seeks …
Issue: March-April 2013
Fugitive Pedagogy
… like a door had opened in his mind. Having flown across the country on the kind of offbeat, open-ended quest that later would become a regular …
Issue: March-April 2022
The SIGnboard
… The harvard alumni association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … World Conference in Abu Dhabi on April 12, on “Making Sense of the Changes: Challenges and Opportunities for the Arab …
Issue: March-April 2012
“The Swerve,” by Stephen Greenblatt, Named a National Book Awards Finalist
… The Swerve, by Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt, is among the five finalists in the nonfiction category for a National … focuses on the poem De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things") , written by the Roman Lucretius more than two …
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
… Harvardians have been named MacArthur fellows . Known as the “genius” grant, the fellowship recognizes individuals … pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” Each of the approximately two-dozen fellowsis awarded $800,000, … funds are a no-strings-attached investment in the promise of the fellows’ work. The Harvard-affiliated recipients are: …
From Here to Timbuktu
… How Father Columba Stewart ’79, a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, … the short answer is: he had flown to the medieval center of learning (and site of a United Nations peacekeeping … Stewart isn’t typically that adventurous. Each day, he rises at 5 a.m., swims for 35 minutes, and then, fussy about …
Issue: January-February 2018
Disruptive Genius
… old, Clayton Christensen started a company with a few MIT professors called Ceramics Process Systems Corporation. “I was the business guy,” he explains. “We were making new products … business administration, had enjoyed a close-up view of the rise and fall of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a …
Issue: July-August 2014