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Arts and Sciences Details Finances
… Following publication of Harvard’s fiscal 2011 financial report , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has now released … unrestricted revenue of the “core” operations (which comprise the College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, …
Bias in Artificial Intelligence
… One of the more startling and instructive documentaries of the recent past is 2020’s Coded Bias , which explores a …
Get Away To Italy: “Italian Food and Wine Tour”
… Olive Garden is lying to you: there is no such thing as Italian cooking. At least not as one unified entity. Instead, a culinary tour of Italy is a recapitulation of conquest. It is also a story … as Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Austro-Hungarian influences give rise to hearty cabbage soups and delicate pastry …
The Interim President’s Agenda
… president January 2 , when President Claudine Gay resigned. The shift in physical offices was trivial: a right turn, rather than a left in the … responsibilities. “We have experienced a series of crises,” Garber said. “But as so often with crises, there is …
Soldiers’ Biographer
… freelance journalist and editor Rachel Cox ’74 decided the time had come to write her first book. When agents … American Library), an unusual “boots on the ground” history of how her uncle and four friends left the United States in the summer of 1941, months before Pearl Harbor, to become British …
Issue: January-February 2013
Why the Grad Student Union Election Is Still Contested
… in favor, more than 300 additional ballots—larger than the voting margin—remain under challenge. During the past month, officials from the University and the Harvard Graduate … at the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Boston office to make their respective arguments about whether …
Sunil Amrith
… “Picture the Bay of Bengal as an expanse of tropical water: still and blue in the calm of the January winter, or raging and turbid with …
Issue: September-October 2017
Francis James Child
… Francis James Child , A.B. 1846, was a model of nineteenth-century academic achievement. Named Harvard’s Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at 26, he was one of his … remembered than many distinguished colleagues because, at the height of his career, he decided to apply a gift for …
Issue: May-June 2006
Competitive Challenges
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report During halftime of Saturday’s matchup between Harvard and Dartmouth in … title and compete with the best in the Ivy League.” The rise of the Big Green, and their newfound confidence, are …
Slightly Supernatural
… It wasn’t until after she moved into the haunted house that Laura van den Berg’s latest novel … Clare, a young widow who takes a trip to Havana in the wake of her husband’s sudden death and then begins to see him … and abstract but promisingly fertile: the strange pull of solitary travel, the power of tourism to reshape cultures …
Issue: September-October 2018
Image-Guided Brachytherapy
… Intraoperative MRI has also improved the practice of minimally invasive therapies for other … The two big problems posed by this approach are the lack of "global" visual feedback and the lack of mechanical …
Vote Now
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots, mailed … be announced at the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day, May 26. All Harvard-degree holders, … ’71, M.B.A. ’74, of Baltimore, former chair and CEO, Enterprise Community Partners. Carl J. Martignetti ’81, M.B.A. …
Issue: May-June 2011
Linking Lifestyle to Stem Cells
… Sleep, diet, exercise, and stress: these are factors known to change a person’s risk of developing numerous non-communicable diseases. Such … impacts on health—beneficial or harmful—exert much of their influence via inflammation. About 10 years ago, …
Issue: May-June 2020
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?
… Topics include recent state laws that limit voting, the voting-rights bills being debated in Congress, and the current state of “alignment” between voters’ wishes and government … where the votes are counted correctly. So I see the recent rise of election subversion as an issue, as striking at the …
At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America
… 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 previous selections, featuring articles about the … I know and what they take for granted catches me by surprise, and their frame of mind entirely astonishes me.” The …