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Latin Salutatory: "De Hominis harvardiensis Decursu"
… English translaton follows… Praeses Aestive, decani, professores, vos qui rem Harvardianam gubernatis; alumni, … ducunt, pergitote progredi. Avete atque plaudite! On the Evolution of Homo harvardiensis President Summers, … since they have entered the Harvard houses. Because they rise in stature, they belong to the group Homo harvardiensis …
The Shows Go On
… station, just after midnight on a Sunday and you’ll hear the thumping bass of hip-hop, the staccato pulses of rap, and the soulful … part of WHRB’s black music department, The Darker Side, comprise just a few hours of the station’s 24/7 lineup, which …
Issue: January-February 2021
Off the Shelf
… Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men , by John A. Rich, M.P.H. ’90 (Johns Hopkins, $24.95). The author, now a professor at Drexel University School of Public Health, offers …
Issue: March-April 2010
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries January-February 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: January-February 2013
Alice Paul
… Alice Paul challenged Woodrow Wilson to a political face-off, she was a day shy of 32, a slightly built New Jersey Quaker with a crown of … “Suffragists Carry Fight to Gates of White House,” clamored the headlines. Picketing the White House, a first in the …
Issue: November-December 2010
Lefty from Cincy
… As a boy growing up in the Queen City, Brent Suter ’12 had an idol: the Cincinnati … seasons with 630 home runs, and who is a lock for the Hall of Fame. Like Griffey, Suter graduated from Archbishop … wore when he played for the Seattle Mariners at the start of his career. Today, however, Suter looks to other role …
Issue: May-June 2011
How Antibiotics Disrupt Babies’ Microbiomes
… Adding to recent research suggesting that the microbes in and on our bodies play a crucial role in … exposure to antibiotics lowers the diversity and robustness of children’s gut microbes and leads to an uptick in … gut.” Alongside that disruption, the researchers also saw a rise in the number of antibiotic resistance genes in treated …
Roche to Be Tenant in Allston
… Roche, the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, … it would create an innovation center at Harvard’s enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston. The firm, which … 25,000 people in the United States and claims the title of “world’s largest biotechnology company,” will team with …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … Class notes and obituaries November-December 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: November-December 2012
Food and Mood
… door that stays up through New Year’s Day. One line counts the days; the other logs the pounds. “I do a daily weigh in … the University’s Education Innovation Laboratory, and part of the Weight Watchers group at Harvard since 2002. “I try … not exercising over the holidays.” The annual, cyclical rise in the number of visitors to health clinics, gyms, …
Issue: November-December 2009
A Story Curled Inside
… In an era of headphone-wearing, smart-phone-watching pedestrians, utterly unattuned to their surroundings, Tony Hiss ’63 makes the case for … ordinary ones. His new manifesto, In Motion: The Experience of Travel (Knopf, $26.95), follows by many years--and …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries January-February 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries March-April 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: March-April 2012
“A Calling Above All Others”
… Ruth Simmons today delivered the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 2023 Convocation … environments.” “What new tragedy, they must ask, will arise tomorrow to unsettle further their future?” Simmons …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … Class notes and obituaries September-October 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: September-October 2012