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David Miliband Delivers Kennedy School Commencement Address
… David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), addressed the Kennedy School’s graduating class of 2015 and their families in Cambridge’s John F. Kennedy …
Human Rights: Inalienable, Unfulfilled
… In December, Harvard commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promulgated in the aftermath of World War …
Issue: March-April 2009
Commencement Confetti
… Self-deprecation was much in style this year. Dampening the spirits of already drenched seniors on Class Day, Ben S. Bernanke … satire as a rule, so I am going to have to strive for ‘kind of interesting.’” Honorand J.K. Rowling told the afternoon …
Issue: July-August 2008
Remembering: Information as Art
… What is a quipu? A pre-Columbian device composed of delicately knotted cords used to keep records and transmit messages. There are only about 1,000 quipu (derived from the Quechua … quipu encompass a primary cord from which hang cords of different lengths and colors and varying numbers of …
Issue: January-February 2019
Crimson Campaigners
… On the evening of November 5, as Harvard students gather to watch election results, some undergraduates will be … internships were successful. This summer and fall, dozens of Harvard students campaigned for local, state, and …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education
… The most interesting new collaboration at Harvard—between the schools of business (HBS) and engineering and applied sciences … in the surrounding network of research and business enterprises. The S.M./M.B.A. also signals the known and …
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
Paying Student-Athletes?
… During the last two weekends, madness descended on basketball … madness is taking place behind the scenes. In 2021, a pair of NCAA rule changes allowed student-athletes to transfer freely through a process akin to professional free agency—and to play for their new teams …
April Fool Every Day
… High School, outside Cleveland, Andy Borowitz '80 was the top student in his class, thanks to “extreme grade grubbing,” he says. He also became editor of The Shakerite , the school paper, whose annual April Fools' issue was filled with bogus news. "The rest of the year was tedium that you had to put up with to do the …
Issue: May-June 2009
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 …
Atul Gawande: Excellence Is Recognizing Details, Failures
… In the professional world , what separates greatness from mere … a cystic fibrosis treatment center in Minnesota miles ahead of a similar program in Cincinnati? Why are certain teachers getting first-rate results in the classroom when others are merely getting by? Atul …
Public Health Horizons
… When Barry Bloom looks around at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), he sees an … researchers than when he arrived 10 years ago. Each of these has been a priority for Bloom during his tenure as …
Issue: July-August 2008
Cambridge 02138
… Other Truths Like Professor Stuart Schreiber, I found out by accident that my dad was not actually my biological father ( “Truth: A Love Story,” July-August, page 53). Unlike … 16, and was able to determine within 24 hours the identity of my bio-dad, when I walked into my girlfriend’s home room …
Issue: September-October 2019
Government Revokes Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
… Boston has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the government from revoking Harvard’s ability to host … government’s action stands, the move may prevent thousands of international students from graduating next week. Looking … country. Harvard president Alan M. Garber wrote to members of the Harvard community this morning to “condemn this …
Liquid Computing
… Imagine a computer, suspended in a flask of liquid, which assembles itself when the liquid is poured onto a desktop. Sound like science fiction? Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber is making it happen in …
Issue: November-December 2001