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"Humiditas"
… Sodden ones. In Tercentenary Theatre candidates for the degree of doctor of dental medicine await the conferring of their …
Issue: July-August 2002
Brevia
… Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office Lizabeth Cohen Radcliffe’s Changing Roster Radcliffe Institute dean Barbara J. Grosz, who assumed the position on an acting basis in 2007 and became dean the … that she would relinquish the post on June 30. After a year of leave, the computer scientist will resume her teaching …
Issue: July-August 2011
Cambridge 02138
… Taxing Carbon It was exciting to see the cover story “Taxing Carbon (and boosting the economy)” … emissions. However, I would like to question two points of Professor Dale Jorgensen’s plan. First, he states that … approaches to climate change. I was agreeably surprised to see the interview with Dale Jorgensen . I have …
Issue: November-December 2014
In Memoriam
… The staff of Harvard Magazine wish to express their sorrow at the loss of the following alumni in the terrorist attacks of …
Issue: January-February 2002
For Clean Water, An Approach That Works
… At a spring just outside Busia, Kenya—a town of 30,000 in the western part of the country, on the Ugandan border—a steady stream of …
Football: Harvard 41, Dartmouth 10
… After record passing displays in three midseason games, the football team unlimbered its ground attack at the … only Ivy League team without a league loss, a game ahead of Brown, Penn, and Yale in the standings. Brown dealt Penn … rushed for 126 yards on 15 carries. Each back had a pair of touchdowns. Never before had three Harvard backs rushed …
Newfangled Networking
… Photomontages by Flint Born Some people live at the technological vanguard. They operate their tie racks by … Their stereos have a setting that can make the sound of rushing water and toucans. Their cell phones- cum … "profile" by answering the sorts of questions that might arise if Truman Capote had written the census. You report …
Issue: November-December 2004
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 …
Shadow Art
… The artifact called a silhouette is named after Etienne de Silhouette, a penny-pinching minister of finances under Louis XV, whose tenure was brief because … things on the cheap. At the same time, in the second half of the eighteenth century, an old but until then …
Issue: November-December 2014
Pay—and Performance?
… For more than a decade, some members of the College class of 1969 have questioned the University’s compensation for …
Issue: January-February 2015
edX’s Expansion—and Issues
… The edX online-learning venture, one year old in May , has … operating entity for the initiative, shows signs of both expanding ambitions and the interesting questions … are also members of the for-profit Coursera online enterprise.) Suggesting edX's international focus—and Harvard's …
Her Campus Pulls Off “Epic” Virtual Graduation
… “The class of 2020 is the class of resilience, the class of changemakers,” said …
Graduate School Medalists
… Each June , the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the school’s founding, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Social Impact Bonds
… Homelessness is a complex social problem that societies often treat, but rarely fix. Existing social services do little to remedy the underlying causes, and governments too often lack the … to measure the outcomes and resolve any disputes that arise. Liebman became intrigued by the SIB model after …
Issue: July-August 2013
Harvard Announces Carrie Moore as New Women’s Basketball Coach
… The last time the women’s basketball team took the court, … the Ivy League tournament semifinals. When the team walked off the Lavietes Pavilion floor last month, junior guard … Harvard announced Carrie Moore as the new Friends Coach of Women’s Basketball. Moore comes to Harvard from Michigan, …