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Private Eye
… at a hotel. “I like to fit into any canvas,” says the petite faux blond while scrolling through the database of public divorce records at the Middlesex County Probate … dominated by tough men—but they have helped. “I spend a lot of time knocking on doors and getting people who don’t want …
Issue: September-October 2016
Election 2012: Crimson in Congress
… Of the three presidential candidates with Harvard … Mitt Romney, J.D.-M.B.A. ’74; and Jill Stein ’72, M.D. ’79—the incumbent kept his seat. But on Capitol Hill, a larger … That body will contain 42 alumni (defined as graduates of or matriculants in a degree program at the University), …
Yesterday's News
… 1922 Heywood Broun ’10, in a column reprinted in the Bulletin , rues the fact that Harvard is no longer the … literary center it once was. “When a Princeton man speaks of Scott Fitzgerald,” Broun writes, “his Harvard companions … must remain silent or adopt the somewhat irrelevant remedy of saying, ‘Well, who won the last freshman eight-oared …
Issue: March-April 2007
Off the Shelf
… Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy (W.W. Norton, $29.99). The author, Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history, writes often about Ukraine and about …
Issue: November-December 2024
At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Decoding Diabetes
… As you read these words, conditions in your body may feel peaceful. … part. We owe this ability to sit reading quietly to a state of internal equilibrium—the technical term is homeostasis . … prompted questions about why and how leptin resistance arises. Flier was among those to note a structural similarity …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard Portrait: Huntington Lambert
… In the old farmhouse in Dover, Massachusetts, where “Hunt” … but multinational corporations pay better.” As dean of continuing education and University extension since 2013, … a public online university in 11 months. Now, Harvard is offering HarvardX MOOCs that award certificates of …
Issue: March-April 2014
Embracing AI
… summer, after receiving help from an AI-powered avatar. The development of generative artificial intelligence, which can create and … assignments and write essays, subverting the process of teaching and learning. And many are responding by …
Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson
… Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, Ed.D. ’22, of Australia was the first woman to obtain a doctorate from Harvard … University. In a long letter to Dean Henry Wyman Holmes of the Graduate School of Education, she cast herself in the …
Issue: May-June 2022
Stellar Seniors
… Harvard College grants degrees to some 1,600 students, each of whom possesses gifts and abilities that count in the wider world. The following profiles offer merely a sample of this year’s seniors, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Behind the Scenes: Writing About Walter Johnson and St. Louis
… from Harvard College , I came home to St. Louis to reports of mass protests erupting in Ferguson, the suburb just north of the city that would soon become world-famous. …
Redesign for Cabot Science Library
… as a cutting-edge teaching and learning space, Faculty of Arts and Science dean Michael Smith announced today. The project, funded by a “generous gift” according to a … ripe for re-imagining, and its prime location in the heart of the Science Center offers an opportunity to serve as an …
Globalization for Whom?
… Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But … globalization—in essence, free trade and free flows of capital—revolves. Antiglobalization protesters may … to live only 36 years. By 1999, life expectancy had risen to 70 years, not far below the level of the United …
Issue: July-August 2002
Yesterday’s News
… 1934 The College funds five $1,000 fellowships for prospective … R. Frye ’40, reports: “If Harvard ever was composed solely of the ‘upper crust’ of society, it is not so composed now”: the Student …
Issue: January-February 2019
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 …