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New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
The Fingerprints of Diabetes…and Other Diseases
… If exercise is such a bellwether of health, and one’s metabolic profile reflects fitness and well-being, might the opposite …
Issue: May-June 2011
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
… Conant University professor Danielle S. Allen grew up in a large, “politically committed” extended family in 1970s Southern California. “Almost as if with mother’s milk,” she … A massive increase in income and wealth inequality and rise in incarceration rates, an acceleration of the climate …
Governing Games of Chance
… Gambling goes back millennia, but today’s proliferation of mobile phones has transformed it into a nearly ubiquitous global commercial enterprise, with looming public health implications. “You’ve got … pocket 24-7,” observes Harvard Kennedy School professor of the practice of public management Malcolm Sparrow, who …
Issue: March-April 2025
Lasting Impressions
… Eliot '10 had his shoes not shined but boned, polished with the downy side of the femur of an elk or deer, a tool of atavistic … merger in which a new science and engineering campus would rise across the Charles River, where the business school is …
In the Wake of Tragedy
… After the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami … word that they were all right, and share their accounts of the disaster and its aftermath. Several survivors shared … firsthand accounts; on March 19 (the most recent entry as of this writing), Yukari Fujita, M.T.S. ’96, posted an …
The Art of Lighting and Sound Design
… The Act One finale of In the Heights is the stuff of theater technicians’ dreams andnightmares. After a … A Roman candle sound soars while a corresponding pink light rises over the actors’ faces. Everything is perfectly, …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Future of the Research University
… do research universities perform in our society? How can they reconcile the tension between liberal education and … be sorted out as information technologies enable new forms of teaching? Will residential research universities retain … Their appearance was not inevitable. Perhaps one is not surprised that state universities were started to do …
The State of the Libraries
… Editor's note: Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton, the Harvard University Librarian since 2007, is retiring at … Archives of North America, as this collective enterprise is known, provides another example of how Harvard can …
Education for the Soul
… In India, where she has conducted research, and in the United States, where she teaches, Martha C. Nussbaum … and a flourishing business culture”—but at the expense of humanistic education to “promote a climate of responsible … over the world will soon be producing generations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens who can think for …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Origins of Egg Shape
… THE COMMON MURRE , a slender, northern-dwelling bird that … conical, a structure that, according to a popular theory of egg shape, might have evolved as an adaptation to the … spin in a tight circle, making them less likely to roll off a cliff and shatter. Other hypotheses link egg shape to …
“The Future of Knowledge”
… During the September 21 launch of The Harvard Campaign , five … in Memorial Church for a panel discussion on “The Future of Knowledge.” An interdisciplinary lot, weighted more …
The Early Days of the H-bomb
… If we build it, we lay the groundwork for acts of mass destruction and violence … don't build it, we leave ourselves vulnerable, at the mercy of less scrupulous nations and their acts of mass …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Annotated Falcon
… Falconry is the hunting of wild quarry using a trained bird of prey. Its … report on the institute’s website points out, because “the rise of digital technology has made the encounter between …
Issue: March-April 2013
Home of the Humanities
… she sketches an alternate history, one that competes with the common account that the Byzantine empire’s inhabitants … than their contemporaries in their use and understanding of the sciences. Mavroudi reports that Ptolemy’s Geography , … help. The new library building cost $18 million and comprises 43,000 square feet. The museums, closed for …
Issue: May-June 2008