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Harvard’s Endowment to Go “Greenhouse-Gas Neutral” by 2050
… president Lawrence Bacow announced in an email to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) today, one day before the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day. “With this commitment, our focus is on …
Prepare for AI Hackers
… In 2016, tens of thousands of computer-security researchers gathered at the Bally’s Las Vegas for DEF CON, the world’s …
Issue: March-April 2023
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 …
Letters (expanded)
… Editor's note: The three articles on American governance in the July-August … Radical Fix for the Republic," by Jonathan Shaw, on law professor Lawrence Lessig's proposal for a constitutional … Gutmann and Dennis Thompson; and Harvard Kennedy School professor Alexander Keyssar's Forum, "Voter Suppression …
Issue: September-October 2012
Spring Spectacle
… The weather gods obviously got the memo late. As the … jumped to a near-record 90 degrees. Concluding the prayers of the day, Bernard Steinberg, president of Harvard Hillel, prefaced himself to address the Reverend …
Issue: July-August 2010
Emily Broad Leib: What Can be Done About Food Waste?
… About Food Waste? Emily Broad Leib, founder and director of Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, discusses how to reduce food waste in the United States and abroad. Topics include the confusion … are more government agencies or nonprofits or social enterprise or often kind of community coalitions and groups of …
Bailout: Dividends No, Savings Bonds Yes
… newspaper op-ed essays, faculty members critique aspects of the federal government's financial-rescue measures and … engagement," all while promoting saving. The suggestion arises from work done by the Doorways to Dreams Fund , a …
Jorge Domínguez to Retire Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations
… Madero professor for the study of Mexico Jorge Domínguez, a member of the … understandably experience to come forward when concerns arise. All of us in this room share a responsibility to act …
Green Engineering
… Paul Rode, straining to open a steel door to a stairwell on the sixtieth floor of the Empire State Building. “That’s a … blow is caused by the stack effect, the natural tendency of a building to act like a giant chimney, creating a draft …
Issue: March-April 2012
Maxim Gorky
… For much of the early twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was probably the … stories from the 1890s, with heroes drawn from the millions of peasants-turned-tramps then roaming the Russian … thoroughfare, along with hundreds of institutes and enterprises, were renamed; and finally the preacher of merciless …
Issue: July-August 2008
A $35-Million Gift to HGSE Launches an Early Childhood Initiative
… With the largest donation in its history, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will launch a new, $35.5-million early … The gift means HGSE has raised more than $230 million of its capital campaign goal of $250 million, part of the …
Yesterday's News
… 1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships … causes a sensation by “performing the most amazing sort of evolutions on the field”—a perfect wedge, a single file … hygiene department reminds undergraduates that “heretofore a certificate based on physical disability was the …
Issue: November-December 2007
Back to School
… H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several … vital Brunswick. Their home is within walking distance of the doctor and dentist, the post office, downtown … Street, in East Cambridge. The 150 URC units would not comprise a continuing-care or assisted-living facility, Harris …
Issue: January-February 2005
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
… ’01 was puzzled in January 1999 when she showed up on the first day of her creative-writing seminar, “Weaving an Autobiography.” … McKetta, a 19-year-old English concentrator, seemed out of place in the community education class then offered by …
Issue: November-December 2021
Investigating Academic Misconduct
… that it was investigating allegations that “nearly half the students” in a spring 2012 course “may have … the final exam….” Given the potentially serious violation of academic norms on an unprecedented scale, the statement … of discussion emerged. Some students said they were not surprised by the allegations, and rumors circulated that the …
Issue: November-December 2012