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Beyond the Genome
… During the past few decades , most scientific research into the causes of autism has been focused on the structural wiring of the … in recent years, as the number of cases has continued to rise (while the genetic pathways have remained elusive), …
Issue: January-February 2008
“Become Better ‘Citizens of the World.’”
… Study abroad , now encouraged and integrated into the College experience, was largely absent in the late 1980s, recalls Jay Winthrop, principal of Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, a registered investment … exposure a priority—and urges students to take advantage of any chances to travel abroad to learn a language, gain …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
… For all the hand-wringing over their failure to amass savings, … disciplined. So says Harvard Business School assistant professor Anat Keinan. A need to feel efficient, and a … and even immoral. Keinan and Columbia Business School professor Ran Kivetz call this hyperopia —the habit of …
Issue: September-October 2009
Off the Shelf
… Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. … guide (the first example is the notorious simultaneous rise of human births and the stork population in late …
Issue: July-August 2015
A New Portrait of “Jackie”
… It might be impossible to make original art about the Kennedys. A writer could be intimidated by the speculative accounts of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as penned by … may feel compelled to reenact the famous photographs of November 22, 1963, in living color: the First Lady in …
The Power of Torture
… Nowhere in the pages of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), a …
Issue: March-April 2010
Celebrating Integrity
… Address on May 27, President Alan M. Garber focused on the undergraduate experience, rather than events occurring outside the gates of Harvard Yard. He told the graduating seniors about his … It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one. When I met my 77 classmates from 32 …
Issue: July-August 2025
Who Killed the Men of England?
… There are no signs of a massacre --no mass graves, no piles … the researchers explored how such a pattern could have arisen and concluded that a massive replacement of the native … there is evidence of this in genetic data should be no surprise.” An even more remarkable history, says Reich, is told …
Issue: July-August 2009
All Eyes on China
… T minus two weeks to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in China. Amid … "PSB [Public Security Bureau] personnel may conduct surprised [sic] inspection of our property without notification …
Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Debt Deal
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith used his annual report to colleagues for the 2016-2017 academic year, being released today, to … , the fiscal 2019 distribution per unit of endowment would rise a nominal amount, perhaps 1 percent, reflecting the …
Whither the Harvard Endowment?
… The University’s endowment—its largest revenue source by far— was valued at $37.6 billion as of June 30, 2015 (the end of that fiscal year, and the most … significantly to the 11.3 percent ($3.7 billion) rise in the endowment’s value for the year. The Outlook …
The Business of Fighting Cancer
… M.B.A '85 , a former alumni achievement award winner at the school, has turned her personal experience, following … her diagnosis with multiple myeloma (a fatal cancer of the plasma cells) in 1996, into her new profession, as founder and CEO of the Multiple Myeloma …
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
… Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, … later, this February 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation in technology—artificial intelligence. … frontier of technology. During the question period (a reprise of an earlier such session on campus ), students …
The Privacy of the Classroom
… How private is a Harvard classroom—the space protected for free exchanges of ideas between teacher and student-learners? That issue … organization will operate with an advisory committee comprised of faculty members, and that, for each …
The Affront of Relegation
… In his remarks to the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on June … L. Rudenstine spoke about the moral concerns--and example--of the Commencement afternoon guest speakers, Seamus …