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Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
… completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson as the epitome of a faculty member at the University of … sudden as it may be in this book, should not come as a surprise: he has a burning, abiding passion to improve the …
Issue: September-October 2006
“Social Justice in Linguistics”
… an ASL class to Harvard, on one level, was incidental. The students calling for the class needed a faculty member’s … work on deaf children is much more applied than most of her papers, which wade deep into theoretical semantics. She views applied research as part of “the social responsibility of running a lab that studies …
Issue: May-June 2017
Like Garlic or Burning Matches
… Napalm, indelibly associated in modern memory with the horrors of civilians bombed during the Vietnam War, emerged from a … the gel’s origin. America’s first Independence Day of World War II was idyllic at Harvard University. On campus …
Issue: May-June 2013
“Good” Cells Gone “Bad”
… The good boy who turns to crime because he lives in a bad neighborhood is a common fixture of popular culture. Now that narrative has a newly discovered analogy in the world of cell biology. Professor of stem cell and regenerative …
Issue: September-October 2010
Lost Sleep Is Hard to Find
… residents, cramming undergrads, and anyone else burning the candle at both ends: get very little sleep for days, … pull an all-nighter, and then crash for an extra-long night of shut-eye to catch up. Ten hours of sleep at once may … attention every four hours. The researchers were surprised to discover just how much an extended rest boosted …
Issue: July-August 2010
Africa in Clay
… Clay artworks are as varied as the populations of the world: “There are dozens of different typologies of clay,” says Clowes professor of …
Issue: May-June 2019
Engineering Superior Photosynthesis
… Photosynthesis combines sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and … the food that sustains plant growth. But roughly 18 percent of the world’s flowering plant-species have evolved a superior form of this process: C4 photosynthesis. Such plants—corn is one …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Day’s Events: Tuesday, May 22
… Events for Tuesday, May 22, include the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, with poet Kay Ryan … Bok , and the Baccalaureate Service for the College class of 2012. For those not able to attend, both ceremonies will … ceremony begins at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre. View a list of Phi Beta Kappa members of the Class of 2012 and earlier …
A New Dean Designs without Borders
… ideas from Mohsen Mostafavi when he begins his term as dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD). On a late September visit to Harvard, …
Issue: November-December 2007
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
… Having fled the Spanish Civil War as a boy and endured the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in his teens, Fernando Zóbel ’49 kept his … Commenting on one precious image—an anatomical study of a man’s shoulder and arm—Zóbel dryly told Graves, “There …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard’s Year That Was
… On May 7 , at the last regularly scheduled Faculty of Arts and Sciences … form of separation from the community. In light of the crises that shaped Hoekstra’s agenda and prompted formation …
Yesterday's News
… 308th academic year opens July 6 with an enrollment of 1,782 civilian students (rather than the normal 8,000) and nearly 6,000 army and navy … from the Allston Burr bequest to begin construction of an outdoor ice rink and artificial ice plant on Soldiers …
Issue: July-August 2008
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
… a writer when she began to publish opinions after joining the Supreme Court in 2010. In the case, the six … harder for the executive branch to curb a primary cause of global warming. They decided that the Clean Air Act does … to help reduce those harmful emissions. The ruling was one of the last, and most extreme, of the Court term ending last …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Day’s Events: Thursday, May 30
… 30, include: Gates to Harvard Yard open at 6:45 a.m. , and there will be a morning prayer service for graduating … ceremonies at the undergraduate Houses, graduate, and professional schools. At noon, Harvey Fineberg ’67, M.D. ’71, M.P.P. ’72, Ph.D. ’80, president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies will …
Global Alumni Fan
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Paul L. Choi ’86, J.D. … the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP, “we are part of this global network with an incredible diversity of …
Issue: September-October 2015