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Crunching the Numbers on Voting Rights in America
… rights, according to Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor of public policy Maya Sen , are fundamentally a question of … ended up casting a ballot? Though this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 …
Harvard Renames Diversity Office
… The University announced Monday that it will rename its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging the “Office …
How the Web Affects Memory
… Google and other search engines have changed the way we use the Internet, putting vast sources of information just a few clicks away. But Lindsley professor of psychology Daniel Wegner’s recent research proves …
Issue: November-December 2011
Life, on the Soccer Field
… South Africa, but even with this wet, spitting breeze, the seventh graders at Fezokuhle Primary School are excited … they can play, though, they must take part in a discussion of gender roles, indicating whether they agree with … better-paid jobs than women." The lesson comes courtesy of WhizzKids United , a nongovernmental organization that …
A Digital Public Library?
… The dream of creating a national digital library, free to … In a private meeting convened by Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton--arranged by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and funded by a …
Issue: January-February 2011
River Runs
… wide, flat-bottomed, wooden boats that first appeared in the mid 1600s on the Piscataqua River, which separates … and lumber to the Atlantic Ocean, following the rhythm of the tides. (Fed by six other rivers that run through … supplanted by the more reliable, year-round capability of trains, these handcrafted, barge-like boats were unique …
Issue: May-June 2016
Tackling TB in the Field
… Lesotho is a country of breathtaking beauty and heartbreaking poverty. The twin epidemics of HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis may also make it the …
Issue: July-August 2008
Yesterday's News
… 1920 The Corporation and Overseers have voted to admit female students to the new Graduate School of Education, which will open its doors in September. 1925 Following a review of the freshman year, the faculty creates a Board of …
Issue: March-April 2005
Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era
… “Who here had any democratic input into ChatGPT?” Catherine D’Ignazio asked the audience at the Radcliffe … Amid laughter, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room to call ChatGPT’s development “the greatest heist of human intellectual property in the history of the world.” …
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 …
Brevia
… That Voice, Stilled The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial …
Issue: May-June 2011
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
“A Moral Obligation”
… “I tell people the first 60 years are the hardest,” jokes Charles Berlin … just getting started. “Oh, that sounds like a lot of fun,” Berlin, the Friedman bibliographer in Judaica in … shared with those institutions. “It’s a global enterprise,” Berlin says, “united by one simple goal: documenting …
Issue: September-October 2022
Taut and Suspenseful
… In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the … conversions; the other came when Morris, in a surprise move, lined up at quarterback and rolled out for a …
Issue: November-December 2002
Googling Google
… Google, which earned $1.1 billion in operating income in the second quarter of 2007 alone, is now the single most important company on the Internet. Catapulted to a position of power by an ingenious and effective search engine, Google …
Issue: November-December 2007