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Roger Goodell on Football Injuries
… Football League (NFL) commissioner Roger Goodell spoke at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on November 15 about “Leadership on … football injuries, in particular the much-debated subject of concussions, as the league looks for ways to “take the …
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
Eating Around Cambridge
… Square. Options range widely, but here’s a selection of some staff favorites. Enjoy Orinoco Kitchen’s South American food on a lovely patio tucked away from the crowds in Harvard Square (56 JFK Street). Sip a … sampling datiles, bacon-wrapped dates, or a mechada, a soft corn-flour sandwich ( arepa ) packed with slow-cooked …
Issue: May-June 2023
Self-Regulating Coffee Drinkers?
… Apparently so, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Their data suggest that people instinctively regulate their coffee intake in order to experience the optimal effects of …
Issue: March-April 2015
“Gorey’s World”
… “Gorey’s Worlds,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, explores what inspired … reclusive landscape artist Albert York . Gorey was “ahead of his time” in appreciating York’s work, and acquired …
Issue: March-April 2018
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
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
Litmus Test for a Law
… Until the mid 1980s , victims of domestic abuse who called the police could expect the officers to do little more than tell the abusive spouse to …
Issue: January-February 2008
Cinema Veritas
… In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class … mutant” course given by Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, and … among faculty members from a number of departments gave rise to a formal Film Studies Committee sponsored by VES. …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan in Allston
… The University’s new 10-year Institutional Master Plan (IMP) … to Harvard Stadium that will include indoor seating and office space; a new, larger, basketball gymnasium; a 150- to … new auditorium for Burden Hall, faculty and administrative offices, and renovation of the adjacent Soldiers Field Park …
Issue: September-October 2013
Women and Tenure
… The discussion of tenured appointments of women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cooled somewhat …
Issue: March-April 2005
Cambridge 02138
… Higher Ed Obligations Julie Reuben’s important review of how brand-obsessed colleges are neglecting the needs and purpose of higher education lists several … teaching cadre also corrodes the academic enterprise. Instructors who can be hired and fired at will have …
Issue: May-June 2023
“You’re, At Best, a Punk”
… Avi Steinberg ’02 spent two years as the prison librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston. An excerpt from his Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian appears below with …
Issue: January-February 2011
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 …
Business Unusual
… The last time the Harvard Business School talked about … usually delivered with a nervous chuckle. While the value of the school's recently completed chapel as an economic … was appointed in 1980, apparently determined to reverse the rise of the laissez-faire approach to campus planning. The …