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“Patchwork Futures”
… In the future imagined by Malka Older ’99, author of … narrative from reality has become a medical diagnosis, officially codified as “narrative disorder.” Older describes …
Issue: September-October 2017
Harvard Portrait: Peter Suber
… Sweden on a Vespa, and voyaged to Antarctica with a boatful of polar biologists who were conducting a penguin census. … At Harvard, he serves simultaneously as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (an arm of the … in philosophy on his personal website. The reaction surprised and invigorated him: his experiment of freely sharing …
Issue: January-February 2015
HAA Awards
… were recognized with HAA Awards for outstanding service to the University during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Leila T. Fawaz, Ph.D. ’79, of Cambridge, was a member of the Board of Overseers from …
Issue: November-December 2017
Centennial Salute
… One hundred years ago, Henry Lee Higginson, class of 1855, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and donor of Soldiers Field …
Issue: May-June 2008
Cambridge 02138
… Revolution in Cancer Care I followed Ken Garabadian—the patient who was the focus of “ Ken’s Story ,” by David G. Nathan (January-February, … or securely make a donation to support the enterprise (which remains dependent on your contributions), the …
Issue: March-April 2007
New Settings for Fine Art
… Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, the hands of curators have been busy … of art in the United States.” … As a redesigned museum rises, curators choose works for display and plan to …
Issue: September-October 2011
Petition Candidates Qualify for Overseers’ Ballot
… Five petition candidates have qualified for placement on the ballot for this spring’s election of members to the Board of Overseers, the larger but less powerful of the …
H-R History Online
… Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary School in April 1899? The …
Issue: September-October 2002
Iconoclastic Music Educator
… John Payne ’67 faced a problem. He’d been teaching a lot of private students, who went home to practice and then returned for the next lesson—fine. But a lifetime in … be bad together!” The answer was to start a different kind of music school, the John Payne Music Center (JPMC), now a …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Explores Slavery Connections Further
… President Lawrence S. Bacow emailed the community on November 21 to announce an “initiative on Harvard and the legacy of slavery,” backed by an initial $5 million in funding and … by Radcliffe Institute dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin , Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history. This …
Nightmares
… Writing anonymously in the Harvard Crimson, a student lamented recently that the … student’s biggest nightmare.” Courses in this area, say professors, introduce students to mathematical and quantitative modes of thought. Excruciating, of course, but not unprecedented. …
Issue: September-October 2011
A "Sponge" for Light
… Sometimes the most exciting scientific discoveries are made almost by accident. Researchers in the laboratory of Eric Mazur, McKay professor of applied physics and professor of physics, had …
Issue: May-June 2002
Harvard Files Plan for Allston “Innovation” District
… has publicly filed its proposal to develop its “enterprise research campus” (ERC), a non-academic, commercial “innovation” district in Allston just south of Harvard Business School (HBS) and east of the new science and engineering complex . The filing …
Brevia
… response to a May 25 call from President Gordon B. Hinckley of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the dean of … , M.P.A. ’82, chair of the private Mondoil Enterprises. Current center programs include research into and …
Issue: July-August 2005
Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome
… military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the armed forces' …
Issue: November-December 2002