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Amy Wagers
… fellowship at Stanford with Irving Weismann, one of the earliest pioneers of stem-cell research, she became an associate professor of …
Issue: March-April 2019
Superfan
… Markus '60 is nearly as ubiquitous as crimson jerseys. For the past two seasons, he's been in the stands for all … wrestling, fencing, tennis, squash, water polo, softball, volleyball...actually, the shorter list is what he hasn't seen: of Harvard's 41 varsity sports, Markus has turned out for …
Issue: September-October 2003
Approaching Africa
… on African Studies (CAS), an interdisciplinary group of scholars who sponsor seminars and fund summer travel for … for undergraduates pursuing work on that continent. But the University has no Africa center, comparable to the … significant, growing collection, but only a fraction of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s 1.1 million Asian volumes. …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Man and His Castle
… Hammond Castle Museum is a romantic pastiche of medieval and Renaissance European architecture, a passionate testament to the past where John Hays Hammond Jr. foresaw the … what they are seeing,” he continues—but they are always surprised and impressed by the castle’s myriad ingenuities. And …
Issue: November-December 2020
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
Janet Yellen Talks Policy and Inequality at Radcliffe Day Celebration
… Inequality —in wealth, race, gender, domestically and across the globe—weighed heavily in the minds of this year’s Commencement speakers. It seemed fitting that … honoring Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the recipient of this year’s Radcliffe Medal, and one of today’s most …
Signals for Change
… a crowd, mostly prominent Anglos, in San Francisco. “Some of the city halls around the state were shut down and more … control and AIDS among Latinos to the inflationary rise in tortilla prices. Linea Abierta (“Open Line”), the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… Ballots (mailed out by April 1) must be received at the indicated address by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 15 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote …
Battling Ebola, Back to Basics
… There have been 24 Ebola outbreaks since 1926—but the number of infections in the current epidemic exceeds all of them combined: 23,000 people ill, most of them in Guinea, …
Good Dogs
… Winters in Kugaaruk, an Inuit community on the Gulf of Boothia in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, are cold, … My dogs never broke down.” Now retired as the librarian of the Tozzer Library at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard Responds to Protests
… year , campus protests focused on Israel, Gaza, and the continuing Middle East war have been smaller and less prominent than last year’s wave of protests that culminated in the spring 2024 encampment . The most significant protests of this past fall were intentionally quiet: library …
The Picture of Freedom
… The two photographic albums at the center of the Boston … are rare and remarkable artifacts, containing dozens of carte-de-visite portraits that shed light on an …
Yesterday’s News
… 1914 The Class of 1918—with 704 matriculants (up from 622 a year before)—moves into Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls, the new dormitories created by President Lowell as a way to … efforts to publicize Harvard nationally. 1924 A number of “radical changes in policy and service have been made in …
Issue: September-October 2019
Delving into Pain
… A new book by Melanie Thernstrom ’87 was reviewed in the New York Times and the … Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering is part memoir, part medical-historical … a thumbs-up. Thernstrom was driven to explore the subject of chronic pain—which affects an estimated 70 million …
Why Diverse Literature Matters
… What role do educators have in changing and shaping the cultural attitudes and social practices that … Toni Morrison's God Help The Child recently, as part of a faculty seminar and presentation, got me thinking about … the themes were too advanced for their grade. I was surprised to hear this, given that other seventh-grade books …