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Narrowing School Achievement Gaps
… Education experts and political leaders from across the country gathered at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on Tuesday for the first convening of a new initiative that seeks to combat inequality in …
Joyful Noises
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Anniversaries of moment: Tops on the list is the birthday of John Harvard, beneficent man of mystery, who was baptized …
Issue: November-December 2007
Cheering Chow
… Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute … (Uridine is also added to baby formula, something that surprised and puzzled the researchers, given the cell fuel’s …
Issue: September-October 2005
Brevia
… The Corporation Reconfigured The two longest-serving members … from families with incomes up to $47,000. The cost has risen from $11.5 million to $40.2 million through 2012, so …
Issue: January-February 2014
Staging Magic
… In designing 106 costumes from scratch for the musical Finding Neverland, Suttirat Larlarb was … with a fresh visual edge—and convey the explosive magic of the imagination. “You don’t want a museum piece set to … dancing servants, dogs, one mermaid, and a crew of sexy pirates. All contribute to the play’s modern …
Issue: September-October 2014
Divestment Debate, Overseer Slate
… T he debate over whether the University should divest any investments in … begun nearly a decade ago, has reached a new level of intensity in recent months. In the fall, faculty … to end apartheid in South Africa, and tobacco enterprises. “This danger,” she concluded, “demands that we end …
Issue: January-February 2020
Words to Live By
… The graduates heard in multiple ways how they might lead … four samples. Full texts and audio and video recordings of these and other Commencement week speeches are available … J. Gomes had long held sway, President Drew Faust, who took office in 2007, reflected on the past four years, as “you …
Issue: July-August 2011
John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here
… For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for one of the college's …
Issue: July-August 2004
Why Hack?
… I attended my first hackathon, CodeDay Boston, at the end of my sophomore year of high school, gathering my nerdiest friends for a full 24 …
Four Seniors Win Marshall Scholarships
… Four members of the class of 2009 have been awarded Marshall Scholarships. According to the University Gazette , the winners include Kyle Mahowald, …
Fiscal Affairs
… Like that other big bureaucracy, in Washington, D.C., Harvard has been … According to the most recent Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, prepared by Allen J. Proctor, vice …
Walking on Water: A Rowing Trifecta
… Half a continent apart, on the weekend of May 31, three Harvard crews pulled off a feat unprecedented in the history of college rowing: …
Issue: July-August 2003
Rocks into Gas
… Geologists have long believed that the world's supply of oil and natural gas came from the decay of primordial plant and animal matter, which, over the …
Issue: March-April 2005
Several Harvard Professional Schools Move Online for Fall
… SIX of Harvard’s professional schools announced today that they will offer online-only instruction this fall, as the … health and safety; protecting the academic enterprise; sustaining the community’s breadth and diversity; and …
Cambridge 02138
… Communicating about Cures—and Cancer The Harvard community is richly peopled with leading biomedical researchers. A few of them are doubly gifted: as writers, they explain disease, … human terms. Many readers will have encountered Recanati professor of medicine Jerome E. Groopman and assistant …
Issue: January-February 2007