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An Arctic Mercury Meltdown
… When people think of mercury, says Daniel Jacob, they tend to think of the element in its silvery, fluid state—the stuff to …
Issue: November-December 2012
Class-Scheduling Conundrums
… With regulatory approval in hand for the Allston facility that will house much of its engineering and applied sciences teaching and … industry partnerships, and an associated large “enterprise research campus” envisioned as housing businesses, …
Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … physician humanitarian who has sheltered and cared for tens of thousands of refugees in her war-torn country, Somalia. Doctor of …
Issue: July-August 2017
Where Do Overseers Come From?
… How are members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers chosen—and what do they do, once they are elected to the governing board? Those … divestment of endowment assets from fossil-fuel enterprises, reinvestment in enterprises involved in addressing …
Red Square Meets Harvard Square
… The room is uncomfortably small, located in an unlikely back comer of the same building that houses the University squash courts. On the wall hangs a proud collection of colorful postcards, reminders not of vacations past but …
Oldest and First in 2025
… On the hot summer day of June 6, 2025, Harvard alumni from around the world and of all ages gathered in Harvard Yard to celebrate each other …
Continuity and Change
… H ow do you know that the University’s 372 nd Commencement, conducted this … on whether the weather would be fair for the singing of “Fair Harvard”—rather than on vaccination, … approved the first phase of the commercial “enterprise research campus” scheduled to be developed in Allston, …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
TED Curator to Give GSD Address
… and magazine publisher Chris Anderson, who now leads the influential TED conferences , will speak to imminent School of Design graduates on May 25. TED, established in … other projects and programs, now extend to thought leaders of all disciplines. Anderson, who was born in Pakistan (his …
Vincent Brown
… When Vincent Brown went on the job market eight years ago, he almost took his films--a few short comedies, nothing academic--off his CV for fear of not looking like a “serious” scholar. “It’s a good thing …
Issue: May-June 2010
Brevia
… Mum's the Word The quest for Harvard's next president is now … for its next leader. At that point, the names of 400-plus people had been submitted for consideration. The … along Memorial Drive where Harvard hopes to build a low-rise museum complex (see "New Riverfront Museums, Housing?" …
Cambridge 02138
… College Crises In their “Colleges in Crisis” (July-August, page 40), Clayton … an outdated and defective “business model” as chief cause of the financial trouble in which U.S. universities find …
Issue: September-October 2011
Final-Club Fissures
… and College dean Rakesh Khurana announced last May that the College would sanction future undergraduates who are members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations (final … or that it is badly worded. The only lack of clarity arises from the president’s refusal to give a straightforward …
Independent Historian
… Daniel Rasmussen ’09 found his senior thesis topic where the history books left off: scattered but brief references to a slave rebellion in … and literature concentrator realized that, with a militia of some 500 black slaves, this was the single largest and …
Issue: January-February 2011
Can Financial Crises Be Predicted?
… In his memoir of the 2008 financial crisis, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner wrote that such crises are like “earthquakes”—they “cannot be reliably …
Issue: January-February 2021
Letters (expanded)
… American Economic Competitiveness I found the compilation of conversations “Can America Compete?” … obtaining a detailed understanding of how a personality arises from the electrochemical interactions within …
Issue: November-December 2012