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Scott V. Edwards
… Scott V. Edwards Photograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of Harvard's 17,000 warblers is Scott V. Edwards '86, who …
Issue: July-August 2004
Climate Change’s Economic Heat
… By May , snow and ice may seem a distant memory, but the economic effects of an unusual winter still linger. Frequent snowstorms in … United States are estimated to have cost the economy tens of billions of dollars as productivity slowed and both …
Issue: May-June 2014
Protecting Special Places
… Warren M. "Renny" Little '55 and his siblings spent their childhood summers swimming in the Essex River on … Div '26, and Nina Fletcher Little, pioneering collectors of American folk art, whose Essex home was crowded with … in private and public conservation efforts has risen significantly since 1950, when, according to the …
Sliding Down the Slopes
… Need one good reason to get outside and embrace the cold? Snow tubing. The slick rides are like sledding—on … it gets, the faster you’ll fly down the slopes: at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour. “As the snow freezes more, it … There, 18 tubing lanes, each nearly a quarter of a mile long, are packed with man-made (and some natural) …
Issue: January-February 2019
Gender and the Academy
… The April 6 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education ’s opinion section, The …
Facing Harvard
… Blame the smallpox. The outbreak began in the depths of a worse … the latest principles of architecture: the Enlightenment risen from the rubble of the Elizabethan era. The building’s …
Issue: November-December 2016
Cambridge 02138
… Elena Kagan in Dissent I got a good laugh out of the recent article on “ Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent ” … disrespect for the Court. Though I shall be pleasantly surprised if the chief justice actually does this, I am happily …
Issue: January-February 2023
Centennial Medalists 2015 full citations
… Organismic and Evolutionary Biology It is a rare holder of a Ph.D. who can claim that his dissertation was the subject of a major motion picture. Fewer still whose … he collaborated with colleague Burton Feldman to write The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680–1860 , a highly-praised …
The Lowell Speeches Project
… Every year around Valentine’s Day, traffic on the Lowell House Speeches Project’s Vimeo page spikes. The first time this happened was the night of February 13, 2011, just after Meghan Cleary ’11, L … of Alexander’s sixth rule: “Afterlife.” This rule arises directly from Alexander’s personal experience: after …
Issue: September-October 2014
Instructor Angell Shares His Enthusiasm
… editor Roger Angell ’42, who has a long-running devotion to the game of baseball, has now produced an episodic, always engaging … seniors on Commencement Day in Harvard Yard, with the tides of war almost visibly lapping at our toes, I’d run into a …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Reverend Peter J. Gomes Dies at 68
… The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, died Monday evening at age 68. As …
Saint Fiacre
… Medieval saints handled many tasks for the needy faithful. Saint Apollonia took care of toothaches because the Romans had ripped out her teeth … against rats and mice, naturally became the patron saint of cats. Saint Wilgefort helped rid women of brutal husbands …
Your Tech Relationship Counselor
… W hen the batteries of his three-year-old Apple Airpods began to … Fowler covered business, media, advertising, and the early rise of the Internet in China. He also got to cover the 2008 …
Issue: January-February 2020
Talent Behind the Wheel
… , amateur racer Patrick Staropoli ’12 was blasting down the straightaway at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway, strapped … that required balancing the 1.5-ton car on the knife-edge of traction. Near the end of the corner, just as all seemed fine, the car’s steering …
Issue: January-February 2015
The Harvard Corporation, Reformed
… Robert D. Reischauer, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and President Drew Faust today … on that governing board’s operations and activities—one of the periodic updates to the community begun when …