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… paper). When he isn’t writing and editing from Algeria, the author, who has world-class wanderlust, is a flyfishing … course north to Lake Baikal, in Siberia, ahead of a planned program of dam construction and diversions for irrigation. Far from …
Issue: January-February 2024
Muhammad Yunus Speaks at Business School
… entrepreneurial spirit, “with no exception whatsoever,” microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus told listeners at Harvard … some people simply never discover that proclivity because their surroundings do not allow it to blossom. Before he … was foolish—the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner was a young professor of economics at Chittagong University , quite proud …
The Mammalian Life Span
… Pellegrino University Professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson has written with increasing urgency about mankind’s disruption of the biosphere, and the heedless extinction of species. He … survive. Or not. Some of the variants of the genes, having arisen by mutation or forming new combinations, might even …
Issue: March-April 2016
“Your Job Is to Disturb the Universe”
… Former secretary of state John Kerry lingered casually in John F. Kennedy … chatting with colleagues and admirers, before ascending the stage to deliver this year’s Commencement address to … up the corruption” in Washington. It’s the long-term crises, Kerry said, that make him more afraid: “While we are …
At Home with Harvard: Harvard History through a New Lens
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … the University’s connections to slavery and its role in the rise of eugenics. State police gather in front of Widener …
An Imposing Honor for Harvard’s First Black Graduate
… With the unveiling yesterday on its central campus of a nine-foot statue of lawyer, educator, and diplomat Richard T. Greener , the …
Carl Thorne-Thomsen
… The Vietnam War era at Harvard is largely remembered as a time of resistance. In the late 1960s, students burned draft … cards, occupied University Hall, and helped drive ROTC off campus. But before the anti-war movement became daily …
Issue: September-October 2017
The Coronavirus Spring
… still beautiful if no one is around to see it? In search of an answer, Primus walked across Harvard Yard early on March 24, shortly before the Massachusetts order shutting nonessential businesses … took effect. In the gray light, the bubbly yellow flowers of Cornus mas (cornelian cherry) showed to particular …
Issue: July-August 2020
Soccer Under the Lights
… In early September , the new, illuminated, artificial-turf Soldiers Field Soccer … The artificial surface allows play in a wider range of weather than the natural grass pitch of nearby Ohiri Field (named for star Crimson forward Chris …
Issue: November-December 2010
Off the Shelf
… Bach’s Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work, by Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor emeritus (W.W. Norton, $40). The preeminent Bach … Fighting Words, by Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull research professor of American history (Basic Books, $32). In a volume …
Issue: March-April 2020
FAS: Faculty and Fisc
… In presenting the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report for the … members—now numbers 730, up from 723 last year. Having risen from 657 members in 2004-2005 to 721 in 2008-2009, …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Early Bird
… binoculars, left his Upper East Side apartment and ran the few blocks to Central Park, where, his database reveals, … The coronavirus pandemic had kept away the usual crowds of tourists and joggers, and the peak-season May migrants, … that he pressed on along its north side and was surprised to find a horned grebe. Ordinarily such a rare …
Issue: May-June 2020
“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 …
AWOL from Academics
… application that tracks my work, producing weekly summaries of time spent on each activity, such as homework, socializing, or eating a meal. I was surprised to find I spend far, far less time on my classes than … as a research assistant, editing columns for the Crimson , or writing for Harvard Magazine . It turns out …
Issue: March-April 2024
Financial Focus
… “About 75 percent of our revenues are from the endowment, tuition, and sponsored research,” reports Dan … academic year just begun, spending on such scholarships has risen about 90 percent—an increase of nearly $90 million in …
Issue: September-October 2013