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Alternatives to Policing
… Amid the protests last summer that followed George Floyd’s … calls away from the Boston Police Department. Those calls—often involving mental-health emergencies, homelessness, … Center, whose clinicians assist officers in responding to crises; clinicians themselves respond to mental-health …
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 …
Cambridge 02138
… A Report to Readers It is difficult to absorb how much the world has been shaken since mid March, when Harvard … and staff to work remotely: the pandemic and economic crises, prompting untold suffering; the U.S. reawakening to … widening socioeconomic fissures; and the pressures of a high-stakes American presidential election, conducted …
Issue: November-December 2020
Critical Mass, and World-Class
… Cherry A. Murray , the physicist who became its dean on July 1, already knows her aspirations for Harvard’s young School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS): to reach … it is now engaged (see graphic) “an excellent, coherent set of synergistic disciplines.” Now the new dean—currently …
Issue: November-December 2009
Hello, Geotech
… your geographic information system (GIS) for a spin around the block. Its easy. Sit at your computer, which you have loaded with GIS software, and call up on the monitor a street map of Greater … what happens when the polar ice caps melt and ocean levels rise, GIS can show you within minutes just how much of the …
Issue: November-December 2006
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
The Unfinished Recovery
… After years of pandemic upheaval, American primary and secondary … for pandemic learning recovery ended, seemingly turning the page on the crisis. But standardized tests tell a … to math education saw less impact. That’s no surprise, Kane says: the clearest way to remedy lost learning …
Web App: Add the Web App to “Favorites”
… USERS OF APPLE DEVICES running iOS 7 may benefit from a new … to “Bookmarks,” but it is called “Favorites.” Follow the steps below to add Harvard Magazine’ s web app to your … Once configured, “Favorites” will allow you to tap into all of the web app’s features without even leaving your browser. …
Cambridge 02138
… by Craig Lambert, March-April, page 60), I was disturbed by the article’s potentially misleading tone. It is interesting … to learn sophisticated insights such as Gene Heyman’s model of addiction as an “ambivalence” rather than a “compulsion,” … sure how we should handle the ethical questions that will arise. I am sure, however, that we should not do it by trying …
Blindspot: A Novel
… friends since graduate school, didn’t plan to write a book. Their project, set in 1760s Boston, was supposed to be a sketch, a playful spoof of two genres: the picaresque, with its rogue hero exposing …
Issue: November-December 2008
Martian Grass
… Among the 3,200 rocks on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History's Mineralogical Museum and the tens of thousands more in drawersare many dazzlers, including …
Issue: May-June 2010
News in Brief
… his retirement on January 17. He went out on top: in the 2023 season the Crimson finished 8-2 and shared the Ivy … . Art Acquisition The estate of the American sculptor David Smith has made a gift to the Harvard Art Museums of Medals for Dishonor, his series of 14 cast bronze reliefs …
Issue: March-April 2024
Unsound Sleep
… The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 survey found that 75 percent of American adults experience symptoms of a sleep problem at … Sleep clinics like Sleep Health Centers, a for-profit enterprise whose medical director, David P. White, supervises six …
Issue: July-August 2005
Company Size Matters
… before moving to Harvard in 2009, she spent many years as the Eastman Kodak professor of management at MIT’s Sloan School. It was, after … smart business practice—it involves employees in the enterprise of innovation. “Firms that have goals that are …
Issue: January-February 2015
Toward a Personal Biomap
… what works for patients. Historically, a substantial amount of such medical knowledge has come from observations of patients participating in carefully monitored clinical trials. However, to deliver truly state-of-the-art precision medicine, doctors will need to draw on the …
Issue: May-June 2018