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… David Keith’s work on atmospheric engineering ( “Buffering the Sun,” July-August, page 36) is obviously both thoughtful … However, several aspects are troubling, and though Professor Keith recognizes and responds to these concerns, … change is only the most pressing of many ecological crises. Forceful attempts to solve this one could well make …
Issue: September-October 2013
A Shakespearean Romance
… on Romantic poetry, I soon gravitated to Widener X, the oddly signified office of Cabot professor of English literature G. Blakemore … Shakespeare’s source material and on the age of Dryden—comprised a handful of dedicated souls (even the …
Filmmaker Meets Painter
… Renee" is all about family and race and poverty in America. The documentary, premiering on HBO on February 22 at 8 p.m., … the artists, interim institute dean Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies and herself a former fellow, said that …
Museums in Motion
… quickened inside certain Harvard museums this winter when the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles, began speaking of …
At Home with Harvard: Extraordinary Lives
… 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 …
Harvard's Long View
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on … day were 98-year-old Frances Pass Addelson ’30, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and 104-year-old Philip Keene … Wellesley, Massachusetts. According to University records, the oldest alumni, apart from Keene, include: Walter J. …
Issue: July-August 2007
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, …
Chords from Radius
… a white, affluent audience that is experienced in this kind of music doesn’t light my fire nearly as much as bringing a college student into the concert hall,” says oboist and impresario Jennifer … love to play for young people who put many different kinds of music onto their iPods, enjoy hanging out in bookstores, …
Issue: September-October 2007
Stone Walls, a Closer Look
… New Englanders know them well: the iconic stone walls that border roads, fields, … Richard T.T. Forman has found out during recent years of serious trail-walking. He’s identified numerous types of these relics, explaining when, why, and how they were …
Issue: September-October 2023
Where the Women Are—and Aren’t
… Women now hold 27 percent of the assistant, associate, and full professorships in Harvard’s faculties--a new high. And 22 …
Issue: January-February 2011
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer many social and intellectual events. Among early spring offerings: McKay professor of computer science Harry Lewis discusses “Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion” with the Harvard Club of Cincinnati …
Issue: March-April 2011
"Hard Problems" in the Social Sciences
… In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert drew up a list of 23 hard problems … in particular patterns, were thought to be the domain of philosophy or psychology--explicitly not scientific. But …
Issue: July-August 2010
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 …
Seeing Life
… We live in an age of ecosystems —of life threatened on a planetary scale by climate change—and of genomes—of life analyzed at the molecular level, unveiling our own evolutionary history …
Issue: March-April 2021
The Man Who Has Been King
… Three times , Hoon Lee ’94 has been lord of all he surveyed on stage: as Ferdinand of Navarre in the Public Theater’s Love’s Labor’s Lost ; as Polixenes, …
Issue: March-April 2016