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Senior at the Crossroads
… and college sharing a street sign. She had never noticed the combination during her four years in college. Bock donned a mortarboard and stood atop her father's shoulders to pose for a photograph at the meaningful intersection; her mother, Diane Bock, snapped …
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 1
… participated in two panel discussions this week focused on the roiling crisis in the nation's financial markets, the proposal to inject up to $700 billion of public funding to strengthen weakened institutions, and … for the economy. They concurred that regulation of financial institutions will be changed significantly; …
Glorious “Genji”
… how to read Japanese calligraphy, nor even have taken in the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji in translation, to savor The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion , by Melissa McCormick, …
Issue: January-February 2019
Yesterday’s News
… 1911 Because more seniors wish to room in the Yard, the Corporation is likely to furnish the south entry of Thayer Hall with steam heat and baths, already available in the rest of the building. 1916 The Board of Overseers agrees to …
Issue: January-February 2006
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
Commencement Confetti
… Lattes in the Library? Lamont Library has a full café. The renovated … (who stepped down in 2014, having guided the epochal reform of University governance announced in late 2010) was awarded … The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, published last …
Issue: July-August 2015
COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought
… One of the basic indicators for determining the possible course of the coronavirus pandemic is how many other people an …
Can New Drugs Help Millions of Americans with Obesity?
… struggle with obesity, but one drug is poised to change the weight-loss landscape—not only by shrinking waistlines, … and other GLP-1s agonists are now at the center of a growing medical revolution. Originally developed to … and metabolism. They show promise for treating a range of conditions, from cardiovascular disease to …
China's Newest Revolution: Health for All?
… Panelists: Barry R. Bloom , Jacobson professor of public health, dean emeritus, Harvard School of … minister of health sought advice on infectious diseases in the wake of the SARS epidemic . School faculty were now … services; by early in this decade, that proportion had risen to 60 percent—an unaffordable, untenable state of …
Issue: May-June 2010
“They Need Money”
… In Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty (Knopf, $24), Jeff Madrick, … Americans seem, mostly, inclined to ignore. At a time of intense debate about income inequality, he puts a face—or …
Issue: January-February 2020
Tackling Teaching and Learning
… For the third time in a decade, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … teaching. Along the way, all sorts of complicated issues arise. A basic one is the proper expectation for teaching in …
Issue: March-April 2011
Field Notes
… A typical day went like this. We had candidate sites from the scientific literature, regions where Arabidopsis arenosa … working on my senior thesis in the lab run by assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology Kirsten Bomblies. The …
Chapter & Verse
… James McCourt seeks a source for "The problem with the 'melting pot' theory is that those on the bottom get burned and the scum rises to the top." Stephen Minot wants to know who wrote, … earth breaks open for the plow." Pierce Gardner asks for proof that Will Rogers replied, "Boil the ocean," when asked …
Lows and Highs
… There were frost warnings for northern and western … upon the Commonwealth: umbrellas were wielded to ward off the sun. The symbolism seemed almost too broad, in a … But mostly she drew on Boston’s heartbreaking reprise of New Yorkers’ heroism on 9/11, with first responders …
Issue: July-August 2013
2009 Class Marshals
… The class marshals , elected by fellow seniors last fall, … House and Kingston, New York (economics and history of art and architecture). … Leaders of 2009 … The elected leaders of the College class of 2009 … …
Issue: July-August 2009