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… 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
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2017
Choosing Confidants
… “I coulda’ been a contender,” erupts Marlon Brando, as the former boxer and dispirited dockworker Terry, in the … from On the Waterfront. “I coulda’ been somebody. Instead of a bum, which is what I am—let’s face it.” Terry is … have argued that each person’s closest, strongest ties comprise the core discussion network, but no one has empirically …
Issue: January-February 2015
Matthew Potts Appointed Harvard Pusey Minister
… M atthew Ichihashi Potts, professor of religious studies and literature, has been appointed Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian …
Erika Bailey
… Like many young thespians, Erika Bailey once dreamed of acting Ibsen and Molière. Eventually, though, the years of auditions wore on her. “As an actor, you’re always asking …
Issue: July-August 2018
Combining Art and Science to Fuel Water’s Future
… Joachim Cohen would love to have the product he helped design this summer—a red-balloon … to remind users to conserve water—show up in millions of kitchen sinks one day. But even if that doesn’t happen, the challenge of combining engineering and art to put a new spin on …
Vermont Folk Songs, Plugged In
… The Green Mountain State does not leap to mind when the subject of indigenous American music comes up. Yet Vermont has bred … heard her and asked that she send some of her music. “Surprised (and flattered),” the notes continue, “Margaret put …
Issue: May-June 2012
Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan with Boston
… After more than two years of intensive planning and community discussions, the University has filed a 10-year Institutional Master Plan … Authority (BRA), detailing 1.4 million square feet of projects that administrators say “provide a long-term …
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… writer who is Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane provostial professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford, will be the speaker … us that the patient is the center of the medical enterprise. His range of proficiency embodies the diversity of the …
Waiting to Inhale
… like snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing. They may reach heights (paragliding), or depths, as in free … Streeter descended on a weighted sled to a record depth of 400 feet and, using a balloon, returned to the surface on … awareness and a place where some kinds of pain also arise. (Autonomic breathing, the kind we do when asleep, is …
Issue: March-April 2006
Callimachus
… Theon, a would-be critic: Callimachus! It’s not often we run … the Library. Have you come to see the victory procession of our benefactor, King Ptolemy? We all enjoyed that Hymn to …
Issue: July-August 2020
Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?
… America's response to the COVID-19 crisis, says political philosopher Danielle … "the biggest possible announcement one could have of the broken state of affairs" in our nation's democracy. … now would not be necessary. Marina Bolotnikova: Has it surprised you that that hasn't happened, or what do you think …
Yesterday’s News
… 1929 The Law School’s Institute of Criminal Law opens, to study … have signed up to concentrate in the newly created field of Afro-American studies. A representative of Students for a …
Issue: May-June 2019
Gathering Strings
… When she was six years old, a harp was the most beautiful thing Elisabeth Remy Johnson had ever … Remy Johnson ’95, now the longtime principal harpist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, began a determined march … strings, which gave way to bigger and more complex versions of the instrument—a troubadour, a pedal harp—as her training …
Issue: January-February 2025
Pioneering HMS Burns Specialist John Burke Has Died
… Benedict professor of surgery emeritus John F. Burke , M.D. '51, who in 1969 … and biological engineering Joannis Yannas ’57 that led to the development of the first commercially reproducible, …