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Mike Way
… Mike Way was obsessed with two stringed instruments: the squash racquet and the classical guitar. Now, at age 56, … guitar rarely and, he says, “badly,” but he has become one of the world’s top squash coaches. This fall he took over … head pro at venues like the Toronto Racquet Club, home of Canada’s National Squash Training Centre, which he helped …
Issue: January-February 2011
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
President Garber’s Quiet Installation
… ceremonies typically take place in Tercentenary Theatre, attended by thousands. These are not typical … a small, private celebration, which included elements of Harvard’s traditional installation ceremony, took place … in Menschel Hall at the Harvard Art Museums on the evening of Saturday, December 7, to mark Alan M. Garber’s …
Visiting Hours
… until shadows blossom. But if that process is a kind of alchemy, then instant film is sorcery, trapping a moment behind a pane of plastic—10 discrete layers of chemicals in a precise …
Issue: May-June 2018
Surprise Endings
… It was the championship season that wasn’t. Heavily favored to … outscoring them 205-67. Then came the October Surprise. In a calamitous fourth quarter at Princeton, Harvard … it out for the championship on the second-to-last weekend of the season. That brought the November Surprise. A Penn …
Issue: January-February 2013
Entrepreneurs' Evangelist
… Thomas McCraw, Straus professor of business history emeritus at Harvard Business … a century later. Joseph Schumpeter taught at Harvard from the 1930s to 1950, after a tumultuous life in eastern … creation and an act of destruction of someone else’s enterprise and profit. As Schumpeter noted in his earlier book, …
Issue: July-August 2007
Chan Zuckerberg Commits $500 Million to Harvard Neuroscience and AI Institute
… and Priscilla Chan ’07, announced today a gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. The new … ”), is named after Karen Kempner Zuckerberg, the mother of the Meta CEO and founder (Facebook, Instagram, and …
Cambridge 02138
… brain damage, how can Harvard, a university that values the intellect, continue to promote this threat to the intellectual and physical well-being of its students? As a leader in the academic world, Harvard … House, the new guy, hair still dark. Imagine my surprise to see his gray-haired picture on the cover more than …
Issue: January-February 2016
Social Sciences Dean Kosslyn Departs
… Lindsley professor of psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn , dean of social science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2008 , will … immersion institute for undergraduates, similar to the PRISE program for students concentrating in the sciences …
Reading, Remembered
… I’ m running an experiment on the first floor of Lamont Library. With my right forefinger … As the critic sees it, books, and the sentences that comprise them, function musically. The words and passages …
Issue: November-December 2015
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 …
At Home with Harvard: Crimson Sports Illustrated
… This is the tenth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At … years. This week, we picked out a few key moments and profiles from the past few decades that we think you’ll enjoy. … we finally found out who wrote it. You’ll be surprised by the answer. ~Kristina DeMichele, Digital Content …
Documenting Disaster
… Ever since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Carl Lindahl ’70, a research professor of English at the University of Houston, has been … The unique nature of the interviews, Lindahl believes, arises not only from the shared experience of the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Staying Active without Climbing Mount Everest
… a visitor excerpts from his latest manuscript and copies of his alpine photographs, exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts earlier this year. Then there's his other small …
Yesterday's News
… 1924 The Bulletin confesses that a proposal for a Harvard radio … a little startling to those not yet affected with radiofanitis. But, we wonder—will it sound so strange ten or … announces “an interesting experiment” —an intensive course of instruction in written and spoken Russian, using …
Issue: March-April 2009