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Researchers Identify Autism Genes
… Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Broad Institute have identified six … role in autism. Their study appears in today's issue of the journal Science . The Boston Globe 's White Coat … families in which cousins had married and the incidence of autism was high. Genetic analysis showed missing DNA in …
Allston in Focus
… Recently we dedicated the new ArtLab in Allston. Located on North Harvard Street … between the Business School and Western Avenue, this jewel of a building is a microcosm of what I envision for Allston: … to help us create office and laboratory space in our Enterprise Research Campus. We also plan to build a new hotel and …
Issue: November-December 2019
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new directors …
Issue: July-August 2004
On Readers’ Behalf
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2021, and to confer a … for these prizes.) Hanna Rose Shell Photograph courtesy of Hanna Rose Shell The awards for distinguished writing … to Hanna Rose Shell ’99, Ph.D. ’07, JF ’10, an associate professor at the University of Colorado. She proposed and …
Issue: January-February 2022
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 …
Derek Bok on Technology and Teaching
… Harvard president emeritus Derek Bok, speaking at the six-hundredth anniversary of the University of St Andrews on September 14, focused … Bok noted, changes teaching. First, it makes the enterprise collaborative —with positive implications for the …
The Tangible Past
… At Philadelphia ’s Museum of the American Revolution, displays marking pivotal events … troops crossing the Delaware River. A dramatic unveiling of the general’s wartime tent headquarters. Yet chief …
Issue: January-February 2024
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2005
With Seamus Heaney in Elysium
… In the fall of 2002, in those war-darkened days when Seamus Heaney was still among us at Harvard (then as Emerson Poet in Residence), he generously agreed to come to a session of my freshman seminar on poetic translation. For two hours …
Issue: July-August 2016
Cambridge 02138
… ARGUING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE Joan Wickersham’s exploration of “ Bricks and Politics ” (September-October, page 50) … M.B.A. ’79 Beverly Hills, Calif. We have been cursed with the sort of architectural abomination that darkens the cover of this issue of Harvard Magazine , the high-rise housing complex at One Western Avenue. The worst of the …
Issue: November-December 2007
Yesterday’s News
… 1914 Lionel de Jersey Harvard ’15, the only member of the founder’s family ever to attend the … statue on November 25 commemorating the 310th anniversary of his ancestor’s birth. 1924 In the largest presidential …
Issue: November-December 2019
Mother Teresa Speaks her Mind
… opt for levity, or substance cloaked in levity, from their Class Day guest speaker. The class of 1982 chose to hear a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who may … be named a saint. Mother Teresa, who founded the Society of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950, urged …
In Egypt, Doors Closing
… In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Change ’91 explored the shift of millions of Chinese women from an age-old rural life into the global …
Issue: May-June 2024
He Missed Out on Woodstock
… Winerip '74 devotes his latest "Generation B" column in the Sunday New York Times to his experience of missing Woodstock, and the associated cultural upheaval, by a few years . "The Sprit of '69, Circa 1972," published on August 16, points out that …
Comic License
… In the television show Master of None , two Asian-American … parents to dinner. Awkwardly, one announces the purpose of the meal: “We wanted to learn more about you and how you …
Issue: July-August 2017