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Fish Tales
… The Harvard Museum of Natural History in November unveiled its new exhibition on marine life. The centerpiece (shown here), a cleverly lit diorama, … mounted specimens in surrounding cases (from the millions of molluscs and fish among the comparative zoology holdings) …
Issue: January-February 2016
Helping Those Most in Need
… more than a decade, destroying infrastructure and crippling the economy. A third of the country’s six million people were displaced; tens of thousands died. As the country imploded, the lives of one …
Issue: March-April 2009
To Sit at the Welcome Table
… endures because it changes. In its most recent century, one of the ways it has changed most dramatically is its ever wider inclusion of students and faculty from groups who were for many years …
Issue: July-August 2014
Kennedy School Commencement Address
… Listen to the live audio recording. … eo:http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/media/kristof-2007.mp3 width:220 height:20] Speech as delivered by … of social entrepreneurs. And certainly Darfur and the rise of the Save Darfur movement is an example of that. One …
“Don’t Check Your Heart at the Door”: Class Day at Harvard Law School
… Whatever you do, Samantha Power, J.D. ’99, urged members of the Harvard Law School class of 2010 at their Class Day ceremonies, “Don’t check your …
A Deadly Emotional Disease
… Despite remarkable advances in the treatment of mild mood and anxiety disorders in recent … depression do not find relief. An estimated 16 percent of Americans suffer from some form of major depressive …
Issue: July-August 2006
Vita: Albert Bigelow
… Addressing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North … Lewis recalled his first visit to the city—in 1961, as one of the 13 original Freedom Riders. Their bus trip was planned by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) as a journey from Washington, …
Issue: July-August 2013
Harvard Business School Announces Major Conference Center
… that Seth Klarman, M.B.A. ’82, and Beth Klarman have made the naming gift for Klarman Hall, a major new conference … new facility had been incorporated into the HBS elements of Harvard’s recent institutional master plan filings for … Tata Hall, dedicated last December —suggesting the rise of a new vocabulary for the campus as a whole. In a …
Pauline Mutumwinka: “Down the Rabbit Hole”
… In her Harvard oration , one of four student speeches given as part of the Class Day ceremony, Pauline Mutumwinka ’12 compared …
Personal, Political, Physiological
… malaria seems at first to be an equal-opportunity killer; the parasite, transmitted by mosquitoes, affects women and … susceptible to the disease. Meanwhile, social notions of gender may have an effect on outcomes as well: men, … to the disease, while women, caring for children and often lacking autonomy, may be less likely to seek …
A Presidency’s Early End
… After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were pursued, the Harvard … the community to “look forward in a spirit of common enterprise” of scholarship and education. In his own letter, …
Issue: May-June 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
Harvard Football’s 2019 Season Outlook
… The 2019 Harvard football season—the school’s 146th—will … Here are a few things to catch up on before the 2019 kickoff. THE OPENER . The first game will be at San Diego’s Torero Stadium on Saturday, September 21. Kickoff: 4 p.m. (EST). The game will be broadcast on WRCA 1330 …
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
The Honorable David H. Souter to Speak at Commencement
… Souter '61, LL.B. '66, who retired as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court last June, will be the principal … afternoon exercises on May 27. This is the text of the University's official announcement: David H. Souter, …