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Arts and Sciences: Strong Finances, and an Aging Faculty
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year was the principal subject of the FAS meeting on November 7. Before presenting it, Hopi … members—now numbers 730, up from 723 last year. Having risen from 657 members in 2004-2005 to 721 in 2008-2009, …
A Painting with "Legs"
… L ike the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s best-known paintings was almost lost. American Gothic, Grant Wood’s ubiquitous vision of Midwestern farmers posing before their home, wedged its …
Issue: May-June 2005
Agenda-Setting
… With a new administration comes a new agenda. The election of Lawrence S. Bacow as Harvard’s twenty-ninth … with observations from strolling around the place. They arise in the context of continuing financial constraint …
Issue: May-June 2018
Prescription for Error?
… In recent years, safety recalls of widely prescribed drugs like the pain-killer Vioxx have sent an unsettling message to … critics believe the expanding financial influence of “big pharma” has compromised federal oversight of new …
Issue: September-October 2008
World’s Greatest Taglines?
… outstretched to shake with passers-by." A friend works at the Berklee College of Music in Boston tells Primus that as part of a new image campaign, the school has created a tagline, …
Issue: November-December 2004
Life On a Tabletop
… Bend, a solo performance by theater artist and puppeteer Kimi Maeda, tells the story of her father, who crossed paths as a boy with the sculptor … War II. (Robert Maeda later became an Asian art history professor at Brandeis, focusing much of his research on …
Issue: November-December 2015
Faust Receives Indian Welcome
… Associate editor Elizabeth Gudrais reports from Mumbai: The world may be flat, with technology enabling robust … President Drew Faust told an audience at the University of Mumbai today, alluding to Thomas Friedman’s global … Faust said, such a world requires that the tradition of liberal-arts education persist. “Connectivity and …
Mikhail Lukin Named University Professor
… leader in quantum physics, has been named a University Professor. University Professors hold the highest faculty rank at Harvard, reflecting the eminence …
Cambridge 02138
… A Too-Political Madison? In his review of a book about James Madison ( “America’s Little Giant,” January-February, page 56), Lincoln Caplan makes the statement that the Electoral College is “obsolete.” I … power, federal encroachment into citizens’ daily lives, the rise of the administrative state, and the permanence of …
Issue: March-April 2018
Photographs from Commencement Week 2023
… assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard … to near-normalcy, after the pandemic years—the large cohort of 2023 graduates (augmented by those who deferred admission or took leaves during the prior period of social isolation and online instruction) celebrated with …
Rebounding Returns
… rally led by fixed-income portfolios yielded a total return of 12.5 percent on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30. The strong returns, after all investment expenses, raised the value of the endowment to a new peak of approximately $19.3 …
Issue: November-December 2003
A Lesson with Liv
… The singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor was … (his artistic affiliation continues). A younger brother of the pop/folk singer James Taylor, he has been a professional musician since 1968, releasing 16 albums and …
Issue: November-December 2006
Time for Tapas
… dining at Dali Restaurant and Tapas Bar would be an out-of-the-ordinary experience came when we called to make … $18; large pitcher, seven to eight glasses, $34.) The menu offers more than 40 different varieties of these treats …
Issue: November-December 2004
Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated by Female MDs?
… in advance for a medical emergency, research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that patients—especially women—who …
Harvard Survey: Widespread Nonconsensual Sexual Contact
… Harvard today released the results of a sexual conduct survey taken at the … for nonconsensual touching are included, the above number rises to 31.2 percent. Rates of nonconsensual penetration …