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Soulfège Video: Sweet Mother
… When the band Soulfège reinterpreted the West African classic … 2010 issue. [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llKpxOFIPeI] … Shot in Ghana, a reinterpretation of the West African classic by a band including Derrick …
Issue: September-October 2010
Scanning Species
… merchandise tracking was revolutionized with a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The gum package, today sequestered in the Smithsonian, was … to identify species—actually had merit.” To his surprise, he was invited to the next symposium on the topic, and …
Issue: September-October 2005
Far-out Sagittarian
… An artist's rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy … for Astrophysics Five thousand light years from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius, astronomers have discovered a … its years last only 29 hours, while the surface temperature rises to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, which may cause unusual …
Issue: March-April 2003
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
On Preventing Sexual Violence
… Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about … it feels can produce better outcomes when assault cases arise. *Education . Unlike the glancing discussion of sexual …
Issue: July-August 2003
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
Soldiers, When Young
… attorney Robert M. Pennoyer reports speaking at his class of 1946’s reunion lunch at the Faculty Club, on May 25—billed as its last reunion. In case that is so, some of what he had to say about World War II deserves permanent …
Issue: September-October 2016
Vote Now
… The university has announced the final 2025 candidate slates, listed in ballot order, for the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association’s Elected … Directors. A previously announced candidate for the Board of Overseers, Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D. ’87, withdrew …
Issue: May-June 2025
Public Health Dean to Step Down
… Michelle Williams, dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), announced November 10 that she …
Vita: Irna Phillips
… Thornton Wilder’s observation that “art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it … innovations included adding doctors, lawyers, and other professionals as characters and cliff-hanger endings for … historians have long acknowledged the impact on the genre of As the World Turns in particular. When it premiered in …
Issue: January-February 2013
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
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
Cambridge 02138
… After the ICU What a relief it was to read “What It Means to Be … this is the first experience reading about the effects of long-term ICU care from patient experiences. One … blood oxygen saturation during exercise, and I was not surprised when it measured 80 percent. X-rays told the rest of …
Issue: March-April 2019
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 18
… “Our strengths are probably a little bit opposite what they were last year,” said Harvard football coach Tim Murphy … football media teleconference. “Last year we had a lot of question marks on offense and we had lots of answers on defense. It might be a …
Harvard Corporation Supports President Gay
… The Harvard Corporation sent an email Tuesday morning to the … support for President Claudine Gay’s continued leadership of the University. The statement noted that Gay had apologized for her handling of testimony before Congress, and has committed to …