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On the University's Agenda
… As the academic year ended, University leaders in various … International Harvard Allston In a briefing for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its May 6 meeting, President … would ultimately serve other Harvard buildings as they arise nearby. Bioengineering One tenant for that science …
Issue: July-August 2008
The Context: Life on the Mesopotamian Marshes—and the Specter of Drought
… This is the sixth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
The Active Life
… Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet weekly with a coach, albeit “He does a lot of running,” Robert reports, “and we hit a lot of balls.” … chi, Pilates, and “aquarobics.” The fitness center features machines with air-compression, push-button operations (no …
Issue: November-December 2005
Point of No Return
… Soon after the Harvard community was upended and scattered around the … My roommates, Sunday and Catie, and I would sip from mugs of herbal teas on those cold Cambridge nights and snuggle … or at least tame my overzealous drive to work. Catie and I often had long, philosophical discussions about the meaning …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee
… The new year has arrived, which means the Sons of … life in New York, San Francisco and Boston. They are surprised when I explain how, in the early twentieth century, …
A Bioethics View of Brain Organoids
… Bioethicist Insoo Hyun has spent a lot of time thinking about brain organoids over the past several years. A frequent collaborator of Paola … their armchairs wouldn’t necessarily come up with.” They arise from the everyday churn of laboratory science, and …
Octavia Spencer Is Woman of the Year
… Hasty Pudding theatricals has named actress Octavia Spencer its 2017 Woman of the Year. Best known for her performance as Minny Jackson … and a determined one in Snowpiercer ; the worried mother of Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station ; and an otter with a …
Harvard, Yale Students Delay Second Half of The Game
… The marching bands had just completed their halftime performances at the 2019 iteration of The Game when the real show began. Somewhere between … the protest, with about a dozen fluorescent-vested police officers flanking the students, the Bulldogs made their way …
The Chemical Biologists
… Although Stuart L. Schreiber's office number is 223 Conant, one of several buildings in the chemistry complex, only part of his suite is actually … and biology to make way for an interdisciplinary enterprise called chemical biology. One of Schreiber's many …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Purpose of Harvard Law School
… (HLS) experienced an intensely public moral crisis. After the portraits of African-American professors were found defaced in … justice and the well-being of society, Nader seemed surprised by the question: “Well, largely they’re training …
The Political Solicitor General
… The most political case of the indelibly political Supreme … Lazarus didn’t pay a lot of attention to how the rise of this group affected the S.G.’s office , beyond the … of the S.G.’s role as counselor to the Court now rarely arises from threats to its “independence” by other political …
Issue: September-October 2018
Muscle of Optimism
… Most people think of the human heart as a fist-sized, valve-studded chunk of muscle, a pump bright red as Superman's cape and nearly …
Issue: March-April 2002
Visions of the Opioid Crisis
… L ast year, a group of artists met with clients at the High Point Treatment Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, … The 11 sculptures on display in “Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic” at the Fuller Craft Museum through …
Issue: January-February 2020
Bioterrorism and the University
… There can be few higher privileges for the scientific … than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of people around the world. It is … with ordinary catalog items, like fermentors and milling machines, which are legitimately used to produce chemicals, …
Issue: November-December 2003
Off the Shelf
… The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth … Century, by Gerard Piel '37 (Basic Books, $40). The founder of Scientific American offers an elegantly written, … '80 (McGraw-Hill, $24.95). Here's an insider's story of the rise and demise of the first genetically engineered whole …
Issue: March-April 2002