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Women in Science Redux
… Since the summer of 1999, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and its dean, … this fact." Dowling says the scientific enterprise is "structured to favor men." By excluding …
Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?
… There’s a kind of academic corruption that most people have … Not plagiarism. Not cheating on an exam. This is the kind of corruption that occurs when corporations and …
Yesterday's News
… 1916 Harvard’s baseball team defeats the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game, 1-0. “The professionals,” the Bulletin’s editors note, “did not … administration (Warren G. Harding’s) contains no alumni of Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. 1936 The Harvard Journal of …
Bearing Witness
… For the May-June 2019 issue, Harvard Magazine associate editor Lydialyle Gibson profiled Rafael Campo, M.D. ’92 , a poet and physician whose … We held his hand as he slept and listened to his breath rise and fall. Outside the room, other loved ones began …
Angell, Hochschild, Seeger, Seidel Honored
… The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced its … recognized are: Pete Seeger ’40, the folk singer, recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts; read an …
Sophomore Class Acquires Its Color
… The class of 2015 was the center of attention yesterday, hosted in Memorial Church …
Looking Forward, Looking Back
… I’ve had a lot of long conversations recently. Chance moments—lazy evenings or weekend mornings spent lingering in the dining hall; the common room late at night, with all my … an alumnus. “That’s because I have no plans: opportunities arise and I choose whether or not to follow them. I’m happy …
Issue: May-June 2012
ROTC Revisited
… Drew Faust , introducing Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Harvard Kennedy School address on November …
Telltale Apparatus
… At last, Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has come up from its hiding place in the basement of the Science Center to reveal itself, radiantly, in the …
Issue: March-April 2006
Update: Help for Haiti
… January 18, six days after Haiti's devastating earthquake, the Center for Geographic Analysis gave wall maps printed at … help the country turn to rebuilding. They received evidence of this sooner than they'd anticipated: a week later, the … up in a photograph in a BU publication. It showed two of the BU delegation leaders, Jean-Lucien Ligondé and …
He Was on to Something
… Educator James O. Freedman ’57, L ’60, who died in March of last year, was president emeritus of Dartmouth College and of the University of Iowa. In his retirement in Cambridge, he …
Issue: March-April 2007
Ellen Newbold La Motte
… third deadly year, Ellen N. La Motte published a collection of stories, The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed …
Issue: July-August 2019
A Diagnosis for American Health Care
… senators began pushing toward a last-ditch vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and as Senator Bernie Sanders … mess we’re in.” Focused on the “policies and politics” of the American health system, the symposium, titled “It … on What State You’re In,” probed the successes and failures of Obamacare, the status of Medicare and Medicaid, …
Giddy Laughter
… “ You know what ? I think the mud makes this even more fun...” As we wriggled out of the crowd, clutching precious bricks of red-velvet cake , my friends and I couldn’t help our …
Edgar James Banks
… Wearing Arab robes, grasping a rifle, the archaeologist glares out from the printed page. It might … entrepreneur: Edgar J. Banks, A.B. 1893, A.M. ’94. Views of him differ. While one scholar finds that Banks’s work “holds an important place in the history of Near Eastern field archaeology,” another labels him …
Issue: November-December 2021