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A Veterans Day Salute
… President Drew Faust and General George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, the University paid tribute on November 11 to …
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… Affordable College Costs In “ Reopening the Doors to College ” (March-April, page 24), Theda Skocpol … costs. Yes, college keeps costing more. At the University of Texas, instruction costs since 1990 have risen annually 2.6 percent after adjusting for inflation. …
Issue: May-June 2009
Global Health at Home
… At its best , American medical care is a sublime blend of science and humanity, a system where doctors routinely transplant the human heart, replace defective joints, and excise tumors … in the United States, families are made whole again by some of the most complex surgical, medical, and pharmaceutical …
Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg
Issue: November-December 2016
George Reisner
… to temples, tombs, settlements, and fortresses along the Nile. One of Harvard’s first and most accomplished archaeologists, … came to Harvard from his native Indianapolis. By the end of his career, he had dug 23 archaeological sites in Egypt …
Issue: November-December 2022
Doctor Yes
… "Since our freshman year, beginning in the fall of 1939 with World War II, the primary focus of my interest has been how the world copes with its …
Issue: March-April 2004
Football 2018: Harvard 21, Princeton 29
… Forty-some seconds remaining. Harvard scoring to cut the traditional rival’s lead to 29-21. Now comes the onside … would be within a touchdown and a two-point conversion of tying the contest, you would have taken it. In what can be fairly termed a heck of a football game, Harvard hung tough against its longtime …
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
Learning About Teaching
… Teaching and Learning” ( March-April, page 42 ), about the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ renewed focus on pedagogy and … best by doing things and tying book-learning to the enterprise at hand, and Harvard made that happen for me, getting …
Issue: May-June 2011
Jambalaya
… Harvest's main dining room. The outdoor terrace can be a pleasant alternative. Photograph courtesy of Harvest Restaurant The landmark Harvest R estaurant, … well indeed. For starters, light, crisp calamari on a bed of lettuce with marinated peppers and tomatoes and a lemony …
Issue: May-June 2002
Penny Pritzker’s Perspectives
… Monday afternoon, Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, talked about the governing board’s … board’s reins to Pritzker. Her service as senior fellow has of course become highly visible: she became immediately …
Heather Henriksen
… “This might be a little in the weeds , but trust me, it’s cool.” Heather Henriksen is … antimicrobials, stain repellents, water repellents”—out of campus buildings. “I’m a bit obsessed with this.” It’s her job to be: Henriksen directs the Office for Sustainability , a post she took in 2008, a few …
Issue: January-February 2017
Harvard Square Quiz: Winners' Circle
… We received 147 entries to our Harvard Square history quiz . The winner, Javier Bastos, M.Ed. ’98, a science teacher at … School in Owings Mills, Maryland, submitted a flawless set of answers to the 13 questions. Bastos’s father has lived in Cambridge most of his life, and Javier has often escorted visitors from his …
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?" …
Harvard Honors John Adams, Wendy Kopp, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria
… During the Morning Exercises of the 361 st Commencement, on May 24, … and as foaming agents in the making of plastics) could rise in the atmosphere and cause cataclysmic depletion of …
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Anthony Lewis Dies at 85
… Anthony Lewis ’48, NF ’57, served as an astute watchdog of the United States Supreme Court, the First Amendment, and … The Boston Globe . He was 85. Regarded by many as one of the great American journalists of the post-World War II …