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Danielle Allen Appointed University Professor
… Political theorist Danielle Allen, who came to Harvard just last year—she is professor of government, professor of education, and director of the …
Gutenberg 2.0
… "Throw it in the charles," one scientist recently suggested as a fitting … at an institution whose very name honors a gift of books--but it was pointed. Increasingly, in the … and medical research are an information-processing enterprise, that there’s an opportunity for a library that would …
Issue: May-June 2010
All in a Day: Growing Pains
… In the rear of the Hydrophyte House is a worn wooden bench where visitors may sit and listen to the burbling of a frog-shaped fountain and the erratic hissing of old …
Issue: November-December 2014
Convocation 2017: What Should an Education Be at Such a Moment?
… “It was on this annual occasion of welcoming the incoming College class,” University president Drew Faust … Freshman Convocation ceremony, “that a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the late Jeremy …
Much More about MOOCs
… A newly published, two-year assessment of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) created by HarvardX … impetus for MOOCs at MIT—and at for-profit MOOC enterprises such as Coursera and Udacity—came from computer …
University People
… Clapham Robert J. Sampson Harvard Medical School Courtesy of Robert J. Sampson Superior Scientists The 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in April …
Issue: July-August 2006
An Oxford Efflorescence
… sparks fly. How this came to pass at one such moment is the subject of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, …
Issue: May-June 2015
Larry Wilmore Named College Class Day Speaker
… The Harvard College class of 2023 has chosen Emmy … address graduating seniors at its Class Day celebration on the afternoon of May 24, the day before University’s 372 nd Commencement. …
Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift
… for basic and clinically applicable research—with the support of a $200-million gift, the largest in its history, unveiled … to support nascent biotechnology and life-sciences enterprises. This report details: the gift; the giver; the HMS …
Criminal Injustice
… In early 2014, Alec Karakatsansis, J.D. ’08, used some of the money that he and a law-school classmate had recently … “and sit there and watch and interview people.” One of the courtrooms was in Montgomery. It was a winter …
Issue: September-October 2017
Latin Flair
… To experience , within a few miles of home, a completely different slice of life through the cuisine of a foreign country, is a wonderful thing. Such …
Issue: March-April 2009
Ace Returner
… Few students can simultaneously attend their college graduation and their tenth class reunion. And it’s a rare undergraduate who has a long career as a professional athlete behind her. But Erika deLone ’95 (’05) … the pro circuit; he is still active on the tour and has risen as high as 22nd in the world rankings.) A …
Issue: May-June 2005
Entering a New World
… How do parents and their children cope when a child suffers a medical condition … Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who Is Very Ill (TarcherPerigee, $16 … and—if treatment fails—unflinching at the prospect of loss. From the introduction, and then one of the book’s …
Issue: March-April 2019
Cambridge 02138
… THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw … the more the better. He was addressing an audience of mostly sedentary folks and minimal exercisers, but as a … page 30), I note that in the 1970s after the gasoline crises, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory …
Issue: May-June 2004
Noah's Followers
… Maria Rutzmoser, curatorial associate of the mammal department at the MCZ, in a portrait from the … Wolff Purcell When the Lord God created the creatures of the earth, He brought them to Adam to be named. Thus, …