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A Woman in Science
… In my first year of doctoral studies in England, a group of colleagues and I gathered at the pub after work one evening, along with some …
Issue: September-October 2006
Football: Harvard 24, Columbia 16
… There is a 1981 adventure film called Escape from New York, … produced Escape from New York, Part Deux, in which the part of Snake was played by a young man from Sacramento, … 86-yard punt return that came on the first play of the fourth quarter. It gave Harvard a 21-point lead and …
Two Steps to Free Will
… astronomers rarely tackle philosophical issues directly. Theoretical astrophysicist Robert O. Doyle, Ph.D. ’68, associate of the department of astronomy, is an exception. For five years, Doyle has …
Issue: September-October 2012
Tracy Palandjian Elected to Harvard Corporation
… Tracy Pun Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s 13-member … the election today, following a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing boards this past weekend. She succeeds … Real Estate Corporation , the development enterprise founded by his father, which has 144 properties with 31 …
Millicent Todd Bingham
… The 1959 Radcliffe Quarterly article begins oddly: it was written, explains its author, “by way of expiation for not having fulfilled expectations in the … Ph.D. 1923, felt the need to justify her dramatic professional pivot. Her public rationalization belied private …
Issue: November-December 2018
Cambridge 02138
… PYRAMID BUILDERS I read withgreat interest " Who Built thePyramids? " by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's magnificent discovery of the lost city of the pyramidbuilders. The article leaves … builders poured the material of these stones, which comprise part ofthe core of the pyramid, they would have to have …
Issue: September-October 2003
Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
… Despite the race to deploy vaccines, two new variants of SARS-CoV-2 … than the prevailing strain are poised to amplify spread of the pandemic worldwide, complicating control efforts, and …
Fourth-Century Church Tales
… Mount Athos, jutting up from the Aegean Sea in northeastern Greece, is a place of austere traditions. Twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries … in the first centuries of the Christian church. This surprise appears in a manuscript that François Bovon, now …
“Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow?”
… continues its war in Ukraine, many have wondered about the potential consequences for Taiwan. Could China be … and strong Western response discourage a reining in of Taiwan? For Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College and associate of the …
Harvard Square Old and New
… Is there a neighborhood more steeped in personality than … in at the Charles Hotel, steps from the Square and fresh off a remodel. Enjoy a sunset drink on the patio at Noir Bar … Square. Or check into Hotel Veritas, for a charming mix of modern and traditional. The name is Latin and the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Be Present: Experiential Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
… There’s no place quite like Boston and Cambridge during the … ’Tis the season to raise a glass, and there are plenty of ways to do it around town while learning something in the … for your own soirée, plus a dozen oysters and two glasses of bubbly. www.bandgoysters.com. And if you’re feeling extra …
Issue: November-December 2018
University People
… Jacqueline A. O'Neill Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Madam Marshal President Lawrence H. Summers has appointed Jacqueline A. O'Neill the University Marshal, effective February 1, filling a post … August 2002, when Richard M. Hunt retired after two decades of service. O'Neill, who was staff director for President …
Issue: March-April 2004
Faculty, Family, Diversity
… In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to … results in recruiting female faculty members, and some of the real obstacles to effecting change in the composition …
Issue: January-February 2007
Marshall Ganz
… Few who drop out of college for 27 years later return to join the Harvard faculty. But Marshall Ganz ’64, M.P.A. ’93, … he recalls. “They were fruitful years that ended with a lot of hurt. A tragic story of success consuming itself. ” The …
Issue: November-December 2010
William Morris Davis
… Naught looks the same for long… Waters rush on, make valleys where once … echoing Pythagoras, alludes to geomorphology: the study of the forms taken by the earth’s surface, and what causes … devised a clear, concise, descriptive, and idealized model of landscape evolution that revolutionized and in many ways …
Issue: September-October 2018