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Harnessing Evolution
… Applying evolution in the laboratory poses a fundamental problem: the experiments … are pared. But even in fast-reproducing organisms, a round of laboratory evolution takes about a week. For “100 rounds of evolution, that’s two years,” says professor of chemistry …
Issue: January-February 2017
Harvard Faculty Debate Final Club Sanctions
… Yesterday's regular meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) took up a contentious … Harvard organizations or not—legally independent, but comprised solely of Harvard students—is a knottier issue, and …
Harvard Medalists
… Three people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the University … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Albert Carnesale — You were a towering source of strength for the Harvard community, serving as a …
Issue: July-August 2011
World’s Best Blogger?
… It was noon in Washington, D.C., when the shooting began in Tucson. Across the country, reporters and media executives rushed to cover the story of the gunman, the Congresswoman he shot at close range, and … professional admiration for the Dish as an editorial enterprise,” Hendrik Hertzberg has blogged. “It’s a kind of …
Issue: May-June 2011
Copper-clad Hello
… Massachusetts General Hospital is a conglomeration of towering, mostly gray structures with its main entrance off busy Cambridge Street in Boston at the foot of Beacon Hill. “Its numerous buildings look as if …
Issue: November-December 2012
Collateral Damage
… Even beyond the campuses divided by the October 7 Hamas attack and … it serves in other ways. Here are reflections on a few of the lingering costs. Diminishing academic freedom . When … defiance.” Endangering disciplines . It comes as no surprise that the discipline under assault April 17 involved …
Issue: July-August 2024
Samuel Stouffer
… During world war ii , when Samuel Stouffer led the research branch of the U.S. Army’s information and education division, the hundreds of surveys he directed on the attitudes of American soldiers …
Issue: March-April 2019
Harvard chief investment officer resigns
… Harvard Magazine News Update For further details, read " The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval " and " An Unexpected Risk Factor ," published in advance of our November-December 2007 issue. Mohamed El-Erian, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company since February 2006, …
This Spring, Next Fall
… In academic terms, the pandemic maintained its sway over campus during the … in the wintry early weeks. But after the disappointing news of another virtual graduation, in lieu of a full … upbeat news about a more normal 2021-2022. To no one’s surprise, the Ivy League canceled spring competition, while …
Issue: May-June 2021
Shaping Cities
… was coming to Cincinnati, and it was about time. The I-71 thoroughfare had connected the city to its suburbs … “a catalyst for future economic development and thousands of new jobs in Uptown’s seven Cincinnati neighborhoods,” its … King Drive near the new I-71 interchange, and a mock-up of the Uptown Innovation Corridor, a mixed-use project that …
Issue: March-April 2021
Edward Sheldon
… The portrait below of Edward Sheldon '08, A.M. '08, shows the first promising American playwright of the last century as he must have looked when he was in … playwriting class "47 Workshop," Sheldon seems to have surprised no one when, within five years of graduation, he was …
Sculpture That Breathes
… “In sculpture , you are always fighting the deadness of a thing,” says Murray Dewart ’70, … get it in bread.” He picks up a fresh baguette. “This has risen two or three times,” he explains. “The form is being …
Issue: November-December 2013
"Knitt Together...As One"
… by your trust, inspired by your charge. I am grateful to the Governing Boards for their confidence, and I thank all of you for gathering in these festival rites. I am indebted … all that they have given to Harvard and for what each of them has given so generously to me—advice, wisdom, …
Issue: November-December 2007
A Decisive Postseason Victory—and Now a Third (Updated)
… Last April , shortly after she was hired , Carrie Moore, the Delaney-Smith head coach of women’s basketball, held her first workouts with the … Harvard played Towson University in the opening round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), and …
Football 2023: Princeton 21-Harvard 14
… The past week saw two wunderkind quarterbacks humbled, each … regular-season victories spanning two seasons, Brock Purdy of the San Francisco 49ers rallied his team from behind but … conference action. There is a five-team logjam at the top of the Ivies, with Cornell, Dartmouth (the Crimson’s next …