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Assessing Gender and Racial Equality Today
… said Margaret Marshall , M.Ed. ’69, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, during an online … has affected the whole country. And then the other, this rise of mass incarceration. And the two things really sort …
Scoring Spree
… In their wisdom, the football gods decreed that the quest for … With two league losses apiece, Penn and Brown were out of contention. For Harvard, still unbeaten in Ivy play, the … none had clinched an outright title before the last weekend of the season. That feat was topped off by a 45-7 blowout at …
Issue: January-February 2012
Engineering Equity
… The reports of the Task Force on Women Faculty (WF) and the … faculty across the schools”—perhaps the biggest surprise in what she learned. From maternity leave to search … crucially important means of enhancing the scientific enterprise itself.” That endorsement reflects the administration’s …
Issue: July-August 2005
Supporting Cast
… Nicholas Britell ’03 fell in love with music through the movies. Chariots of Fire made him want to study classical piano, and as a … the 1992 hacker film Sneakers. If, like Horner’s shimmer of flutes and choir, his own work as a film composer doesn’t …
Issue: September-October 2016
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 Professor of dramatic literature George P. Baker, founder of the “47 Workshop” and instructor in playwriting and … to Yale from E.S. Harkness to be used in part to build a theater for the production of plays written by members of …
Issue: November-December 2014
Defying Limits
… adventure-writer David Roberts ’65 set out for a round of golf with Alex Honnold, the world’s foremost free-soloist. More than a generation … I could be, quote ‘world class.’ ” The club’s éminence grise, BradWashburn, urged a group to tackle the unclimbed …
Issue: January-February 2021
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
… London cabbies are famous for knowing their way around their city’s maze of streets. To obtain a taxi license in London, drivers must … test requiring them to memorize the names and locations of 25,000 streets, as well as landmarks and businesses. …
Issue: May-June 2025
We Would Have Known
… by Steve Green Facebook’s recent admission that tens of millions of users’ personal information had been repurposed for … concerns about digital-era privacy. But long before the Internet, “privacy was the language of choice for …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harder Times
… Abruptly, the financial challenges facing Harvard—whose programs, … plant have prospered from the seven-fold-plus appreciation of the endowment in the past 15 years—have attracted urgent … for cutting—and will become more costly as aid requests rise during the recession, and as tuition and fees increase. …
Issue: January-February 2009
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week
… ) host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. Some early … at Lowell House, with featured guest Annise Parker, mayor of Houston from 2010 to 2016. Cambridge mayor E. Denise Simmons will join Parker on the panel of dinner speakers, and f ormer Cambridge mayor Kenneth E. …
Issue: May-June 2016
Vita: Francis Parkman
… more drastically, or to better purpose, than that of Francis Parkman. Still the grandest and most ambitious of our historians, he built his life work, an epic saga of …
Issue: September-October 2014
Hansjörg Wyss Boosts Bioengineering Innovation
… The University announced today a gift of $131 million from … to Harvard), to launch what has become the eponymous enterprise in Boston. He then committed another $125 million in …
Darker Days
… here as an undergraduate in 1973, I cannot recall a period of comparable tension on our campus and across our … ). That date is telling: for all the genuine concerns about Harvard now, the Vietnam-era crises that tore the country apart had an equally severe …
Issue: March-April 2024
Phantom Lowell
… Photographs Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. Photograph of Bronze Statue Courtesy of the Harvard Univerxity Portrait Collection, 2003 President … in the year. The unveiling obviously came as a total surprise to President Lowell. After a short silence, gazing at …
Issue: November-December 2003
Better Living through Evolution
… François Jacob, one of the pioneers in molecular biology, was interviewed a few … motor that drives the flagellum in bacteria must have arisen instantaneously as a result of purposeful and …
Issue: November-December 2005