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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
Rebooting Social Science
… In the early 1930s, as a stock market crash spiraled into the Great Depression, the governors of the Federal Reserve frequently declined to provide … Square office, signaling to all who enter what the enterprise is about.) Aiming to catalyze significant research, it …
Issue: July-August 2014
Education and Opportunity
… The Supreme Court seemed to close a long, fraught chapter in … public schools for blacks and for whites. In Brown v. Board of Education , by a vote of 9-0, the justices called for an absolute end to a …
Issue: September-October 2013
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
Making Directors Accountable
… T he many corporate scandals of the past two years have highlighted the importance of … corporate arrangements: when new issues and circumstances arise, arrangements addressing them are adopted only if and …
Issue: November-December 2003
Five Questions with Paris Olympian Graham Blanks ’25
… about his experience earning a New Balance sponsorship in the November-December feature " The End of the Ivy League? " Harvard Magazine asked the economics … athletic experience at Harvard.” What's your favorite part of running? “My favorite part of running is getting to …
Shepherds, Take Heart!
… “ I did not learn to read until I was 16, neither could I spell,” says William G.R. Marden ’46, of Bryan, Texas. “I knew I had a brain with blind spots, … went to live with their grandmother on the North Island of New Zealand on a farm where she raised thoroughbred race …
Issue: September-October 2012
On Discovering Drugs
… Despite enormous gains in understanding of the mechanisms of disease, we are at a near impasse in new … are themselves becoming personalized. Cancer, for example, arises from mutation in a single normal cell, but one of its …
Issue: November-December 2011
Arts and Sciences Status Report
… At the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the academic year, on October 4, Dean Michael D. Smith … of summer-research experiences on campus, with PRISE (pairing students with laboratory scientists) hosting …
Up Close
… The music of composer Ashley Fure, Ph.D. ’13, asks listeners … to terms with wanting to linger beside sounds from which they’d otherwise retreat. During an August rehearsal for her opera The Force of Things , the percussionist Ross Karre—a member of the …
Issue: November-December 2017
Art-Making in Allston
… “Artists, of course , need a room of our own,” Claire Chase , a flutist and professor of the practice of music, was saying to the audience gathered … new home will be built across the street; the 36-acre enterprise research campus is planned for nearby . Meanwhile, the …
NO on a Summer's Eve
… One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no laughing matter, such as nitrous oxide, N …
Issue: July-August 2002
Historic Basketball Victory
… In the biggest basketball game Harvard has ever played, the … defeat on Princeton, the Crimson clinched at least a share of the Ivy League championship, raising their Ivy record to 12-2, a half-game ahead of Princeton's 11-2. Princeton plays Penn on Tuesday, March …
Eight Americas
… A map of Americans’ health status and longevity resembles a microcosm of global health extremes. Although Asian-American women in … average age of 91—three years longer than women in Japan (the country with the highest national female life …
Issue: January-February 2007
Football 2017: Princeton 52, Harvard 17
… It could have been even worse. The Princeton Tigers, riding the scorching hand of quarterback Chad Kanoff, entered Harvard Stadium on Friday night and …