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Happenings in Hartford
… The Connecticut capital is often seen as a bland, bypassable … visitors can pore over copies of primary sources that gave rise to the book, among them the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 …
Issue: July-August 2023
Rather Psychologically Peculiar
… Drawing upon economics and psychology, professor of human evolutionary biology Joseph Henrich, chair of the same department, sweepingly explains how “the products …
Issue: March-April 2021
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries: July-August 2013 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: July-August 2013
The New Order
… The contents of this issue of Harvard Magazine appear in a slightly modified order. As … university). But next you will find John Harvard’s Journal, the extensive news section, moved forward. It seems logical …
Issue: January-February 2014
Over the Moon
… It took a victory in The Game, coupled with a Dartmouth upset of Princeton, to cut Harvard in for a share of the Ivy League championship, but that’s how the 2013 …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… 1940: FDR, Wilkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election Amid the Storm, by Susan Dunn, Ph.D. ’73 (Yale, … are watersheds. Here, the indefatigable Third Century professor of humanities at Williams College extends her prior … firm, Turenscape, is perhaps the preeminent landscape enterprise in China, and he is a leading voice for environmentally …
Issue: July-August 2013
Yesterday's News
… threatens to cut a $10-million bequest to Harvard out of his will unless outspokenly pro-German professor Hugo Münsterberg is fired, the University replies that it "cannot tolerate any …
Issue: September-October 2004
At Home with Harvard: Medical Breakthroughs
… This is the seventh installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At … and more, here . within Harvard’s Medical School, School of Public Health, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, … in technology and scientific cooperation, that we will rise to this challenge. Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … 39927 … Class notes and obituaries May-June 2013 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: May-June 2013
Y Is for “Yell”
… How do we make sense of a row of typographic squiggles on a page? “The process of reading lies at the heart of our most …
Issue: November-December 2010
Life’s Beginnings
… Are the inhabitants of Earth the only life forms in the … itself might stimulate new ways of thinking about how life arises. The conditions for life, on Earth and elsewhere With … It seemed impossible that the elegant helix could arise from a primitive chemical soup. “Suddenly the …
Issue: September-October 2013
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
Off the Shelf
… Thomas, Ph.D. ’95 (Yale, $65). Analyzing works iconic and otherwise from afar (he is chair of fine arts at the University of Hong Kong), the author decodes art to “illuminate adults’ …
Issue: May-June 2011
Self-Binding
… At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in a … relative to other powers; challengers were sure to arise. Equally important, decision-makers did not believe … steadily declined. Levels of trade have correspondingly risen. Some dispute whether the GATT and now the World Trade …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Passion for Equity
… Anyeley Hallová, M.L.A. ’03, wanted to give back to the black community. She would travel from Ithaca to her … that sustainability—a concept she wanted to explore professionally—isn’t just about the natural environment. … black-owned businesses in Oregon, and $10,000 for the Intel RISE Technology Award for sustainability. One of Adre’s new …