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Volleys in F# Major
… The musical guns are blasting on Broadsides: A Miscellany of … In ragtime, rock, and reggae, the pair explore a gamut of social ills, from the specter of a “Zombie Bank” to the …
Issue: March-April 2011
A-courting They Shall Go
… A month before our plans of study came due last May, many of my fellow first-years became frantic. Having to choose … both impossible and grossly unfair—none of our friends at other schools had to make the decision so quickly! One of my …
Issue: January-February 2003
A “Common Space” at Harvard’s Crossroads
… Photograph by Joost Bataille Chris Reed '91 Among the most heavily used, but least inviting, common areas on … consult the campus map ), defined by the northern boundary of Harvard Yard, the ascending bulk of the Science Center, and the western side of Memorial …
Addressing Arthritis
… inevitable, and ubiquitous--with some 40 million victims in the United States, it's the most common joint disease, as well as the leading cause of disability after age 65. Some researchers believe that … suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune form of the disease that is more likely to affect people in their …
A Note to Readers
… In this issue , atypically, there are two Forum essays written by faculty members, … drawing on their research and addressing public issues of the day: American energy policy (see "Time to Electrify" … "Colleges in Crisis" ). Both seem timely, when the future of the nation—and of many other countries—depends not only …
Issue: July-August 2011
Honor Roll
… Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile Kris Snibbe / Harvard … six faculty members Harvard College Professors, to honor their superior undergraduate teaching: Reid professor of …
Issue: July-August 2005
Karin Öberg
… Growing up in Lutheran Sweden, Karin Öberg had no inkling that she would one … to observe a complex organic molecule in the freezing cloud of gas and dust surrounding a young star—or that she would … about “who we are, where we come from” and the origins of the universe that made her think, as she neared college …
Issue: January-February 2023
Harvard College Outlines Fall Options—with Instruction Remaining Remote
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today outlined the three planning scenarios for how Harvard College might … decision is our commitment to protecting the academic enterprise and preserving academic continuity for all of our …
Harry Elkins Widener
… Of the more than 3,000 books that Harry Elkins Widener, A.B. … is missing from his Memorial Library: a rare 1598 edition of Francis Bacon’s Essays. Too special to ship home separately with the other items he had acquired during a London book-buying …
Issue: May-June 2019
A Rush from Olympus
… This isn't their first team effort, not by a long shot. "For so many years, they have spent so much time on the same sheet of ice together that each knows where the other is all the time," says Katey Stone, head coach of women's ice hockey. "They know when the other one will …
Issue: March-April 2003
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
Addressing Climate Change
… Even as the University operated remotely during the second half of spring term, it announced new measures to address the … vote calling for divestment from investments in enterprises that produce fossil fuels (for background, see …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: July-August 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Antibiotic Resistance Thanks for the fine article on antibiotic-resistant bacteria by … turned antibiotics into monster-makers. A favorite teacher of medical microbiology at the University of California, San … to indiscriminate timbering. I was dismayed, but not surprised, at drug companies’ current lack of interest in …
Issue: July-August 2014
Leaders Born in Darkness
… reminded that “Early in his presidency…Lincoln discovered the power of mastering his emotions in a specific situation carefully … her book and say what must be said. When her anxiety rises, the author walks around the room, staring out into …
Issue: September-October 2017
Ken’s Story
… has prompted David G. Nathan, M.D., president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, to detail three patients’ … forthcoming book, to help nonscientific readers understand the promise and pitfalls of this new research. In doing so, … cancer. They thought the tumor looked like the kind that arises in supporting tissues such as muscle, tendon, and …
Issue: January-February 2007