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Nobelists of Note
… Five alumni—two of them former faculty members—and the recipient of an honorary doctorate were among those to whom Nobel …
Three Stonecutters: On the Future of Business Education
… As part of its centennial celebration, Harvard Business School (HBS) addressed the future training of business leaders during morning … of the last few weeks. The crisis we confront has not arisen from any widespread breakdown in individual ethics, …
Audio: The Class of ’66 Remembers
… things as undergraduates, but a close connection with each other wasn’t one of them. Exchanging stories about what it was like to handle … God for reunions. They’ve been my main means of getting to know my classmates as individual human …
Ryan Reynolds Is Man of the Year
… Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named actor and producer Ryan Reynolds its 2017 Man of the Year. Reynolds also received a 2017 Golden Globe nomination for playing the title character of the superhero film Deadpool, and in 2011 was chosen by …
Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era
… “Who here had any democratic input into ChatGPT?” Catherine D’Ignazio asked the audience at the Radcliffe … Amid laughter, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room to call ChatGPT’s development “the greatest heist of human intellectual property in the history of the world.” …
Bryan Stevenson on the Shadow of White Supremacy
… The audience could sense where the story was going almost as … been available only to whites. A swim they’d been dreaming of for years. As Stevenson, J.D.-M.P.A.’85, LL.D. ’15 , kept talking, an electricity of unease began to intensify among the listeners packed into …
Glimpses of Senior Life
… Roger Fu In the fall of his sophomore year, Roger Fu mistakenly walked … where, Fu says, the Radcliffe Quad experiment was reprised on a much larger scale with the earth's own seismic …
Christian Flow , Krysten A. Keches , Brittney Moraski
Issue: May-June 2009
The Art of Juxtapositions
… 1980 as her own rebellious creation, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire. Thewhip-wieldingbeauty queen, gowned in white dinner gloves, … artist and writer is still mining the timely themes of racial identity, cultural legacies, and what it means to … November 17 at the Harvard Art Museums.) The Carpenter show offers selections from five bodies of work (dating from 1980 …
Issue: November-December 2015
Gun Laws and the Science of Harm
… In the wake of the tragic killings of more than two dozen people, mostly …
Dementias Linked to Air Pollution
… Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other dementias are linked to air pollution, new research … adding neurological degeneration to the growing list of effects attributable to fine particles . A study of 63 … … 223 … Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution. … …
The Science of History
… In his 1998 book Consilience, Pellegrino University Professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson dreamed of a time when the boundaries between sciences and humanities would fade …
Issue: March-April 2016
The Entrepreneurs of Ideas
… During the final week of October, three academic units unveiled … to gun violence and suicide); poverty and humanitarian crises (preventable deaths and injuries across the globe); …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Lost Museum
… Lasser was searching in Harvard’s archives for clues to the whereabouts of a portrait by John Singleton Copley, missing since the … continues, an approach akin to the art historians’ has arisen under the catchall term of “new materialism.” …
Jonathan Shaw , Jennifer Carling
Issue: May-June 2017
"Producers of Doubt"
… and conscience. We are meant to be producers not just of knowledge but of doubt—of understanding rooted in skepticism and constant questioning, not in the unchallenged sway of accepted wisdom. More than perhaps …
Issue: July-August 2009
“Listening will be the hardest part”
… Let me introduce you to a couple of my ghosts. As I stand here, I think of my two grandfathers—Lawrence Crowder and Robert Styles. Lawrence was … which pervades this place, and which can make us each rise to the call of our ghosts. See also: Full text For me, …
Issue: July-August 2007