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Seduction by Credit
… In The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press, $29.95), published …
Issue: May-June 2004
Society's Casino
… In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk …
Issue: July-August 2005
"Harvard Medicine": A New Title and Look for the Medical School Magazine
… The REincarnation of Harvard Medical School's magazine has … new look and now titled Harvard Medicine (it had been the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin ). Mindful that … "tampering with tradition can be tricky," dean and Walker professor of medicine Jeffrey S. Flier reminds readers that, …
Brevia
… Transition Dante scholar Lino Pertile —Pescosolido professor of Romance languages and literatures, and the retiring Eliot House master—has been appointed director … experience in humanitarian relief and public-health crises, has been appointed director of the Francois-Xavier …
Issue: March-April 2010
Harvard Medalists
… Four people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the University … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Nina M. Archabal ’62, M.A.T. ’63 -- … to Minnesota and Harvard, you have been an active alumna of Radcliffe and Harvard and an insightful member of the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Law Launches $305-Million Campaign
… At a time of substantial change in legal education and the profession—in which the careers of law-school graduates … investigate these changes. The work documenting “the rise of the profession” in these countries, says Alford, …
Celebrating the Arts at Harvard
… The annual arts extravaganza sponsored by Harvard offers … minority inclusion and gender identification—that have arisen at Harvard and other universities, especially within …
Issue: March-April 2016
Pith Paper
… Painters in southern China in the nineteenth century created the images of their flora and fauna shown above probably as trinkets … around 1912 by Charles Sprague Sargent, the first director of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Starting about 1825, …
Issue: March-April 2009
The Method to (March) Madness?
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report The exchange began … to the basket. The question captured a nuance in Amaker’s offense, but it also seemed unlikely that the fate of anyone’s season would hinge on Amaker’s response. Yet …
A Milestone for Asian-American Alumni
… Organized by the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance (HAAAA), the … 15-17 drew more than 400 people from six decades and all of Harvard’s schools ( http://summit.haaaa.net ). “We are immeasurably diverse as a group, yet we share many of the same goals,” said Jeannie Park ’83, who co-chaired …
Issue: January-February 2011
Alone with His Idols
… Mark Feeney's Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief is so well-intentioned, so weirdly ingenious, so full of lively and perceptive tidbits that it's a pity to … and outs of Nixon's career — his way-more-than-six crises. Feeney entitles most of his chapters with the names …
Issue: November-December 2004
At Home with Harvard: Racial Justice
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Will Cities Survive Another Pandemic?
… F or most of human history, the link between cities and disease was deadly obvious. In … communities often suffer the most during health crises such as pandemics, increasing risk to the city as a …
Issue: January-February 2022
Tough Love
… Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the … time, yet years later when he learned of it he was not surprised. "He set himself up as a model that we tried very hard …
Issue: July-August 2002
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
… This is the eighth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At … unique access to Harvard’s faculty gives us the privilege of getting to know University professors, go deep into their … that has evolved rapidly in recent decades, giving rise to new historical interpretations and methods that you …