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Caroline Farrar Ware
… One of the most innovative historians of her day, Caroline Farrar Ware, Ph.D. '25, astonished the profession when her dissertation won a $10,000 prize. …
Issue: May-June 2009
Gregory N. Connolly
… Surprisingly, the director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health was once a smoker himself. Working with …
Issue: March-April 2011
Texas Waves Hello
… Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill … need only look skyward for a familiar sign. Crimson often flies atop a 25-foot pole at the home of John F. Kirk, …
Issue: July-August 2003
Kenneth S. Rogoff
… As the American under-21 chess champion, Kenneth S. Rogoff decided to "miss most of the last two years of high school." He left Rochester, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Against Delta, Moderna Edges Pfizer, but Omicron Looms
… A large-scale study comparing the efficacy of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines against … vaccine is slightly more effective at preventing a range of outcomes, including infection, COVID-19 symptoms, …
Strokes in Parallel
… Born roughly a year apart on opposite sides of the Pacific Rim--one in Woodside, California, near Palo … with other teammates as well. The pair reached the round of 16 at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) …
Issue: March-April 2011
Happy Surprises
… Success is making a bit of trouble for Gabriel Bremer and Analia Verolo. Two years ago they bought Salts, a popular bistro near Central Square, and … table and were ready to be somewhere else. These troubles arise because the food is exceedingly good — and surprising. …
Issue: November-December 2005
Kidding Around
… Marc Goldberg ’79 is treasurer of the Varsity Club, a trustee of the Harvard Yearbook, and a season-ticket holder of the …
Issue: May-June 2005
Reviving Neglected Space
… as well as visual power.” As a child, she drew maps of neighborhoods, trying to understand spatial relationships and imagine the interiors of the buildings, and she continues to think about the …
Issue: July-August 2018
HAA News
… counterintuitive to hail an electronic print directory of works of visual art, but the debut of the Harvard University Art Museums' …
Issue: September-October 2002
Humanizing Finance
… tradition, anchored in its general-management unit, of drawing on the humanities to illuminate problems in capitalism (see “ Questions of Character ,” July-August 2006). Now Mizuho Financial …
Issue: May-June 2017
Harvard Weighs In on the Fiscal Cliff
… Harvard president Drew Faust joined 15 fellow leaders of the state’s top hospitals and universities in urging … sponsored research and development is an important engine of economic growth. The letter notes that federal dollars …
How Harvard Profited On Keeping Time
… Today, most people don’t think much about the accuracy of clocks. A functioning cell phone displays … century, designing railroads,” says Pellegrino University Professor Peter Galison, who directs the Collection of …
Issue: September-October 2021
Commencement Confetti
… 7, Harvard conferred 6,871 degrees and 138 certificates. The College granted 1,694 of these, 71 summa cum laude. Mother Nature, the ultimate … multitude that returned that afternoon to hear the address of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. (The day before, also …
Issue: July-August 2007
Cooperating to Combat Coronavirus
… Ever since the earliest reports of a pneumonia-like illness spreading … events; and reported vertical transmission in high-rises or other living spaces where the waste systems are …