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Cambridge Scholars
… Four members of the class of 2010 have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2010-2011 academic year. Government concentrator …
Issue: July-August 2010
Allston Plan Imminent
… Harvard is expected to file with the City of Boston, early in January, an institutional master plan that maps out development of the Allston campus. A preliminary agreement of critical …
Issue: January-February 2007
University People
… Scholars at the Summit Photograph by Aynsley Ford Vamsi K. Mootha … by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Andrew W. Murray The National Academy of Sciences has elected 11 professors to membership. From … , professor of Japanese art and culture; and Greg Morrisett , Cutting professor of computer science. For …
Issue: July-August 2014
Nigerian Women Speak Out
… is a dynamic performance piece inspired by a spectrum of true stories about women across Nigeria. Nigerian … dances, songs, and spoken word in intimate portrayals of struggles—for dignity, independence, and professional/meaningful engagement in African society. Themes both personal and universal are candidly broached in …
Issue: January-February 2018
Race, Sex, and Love
… Tiger Woods, possibly the world's best-known athlete, resists being called a … is far less exceptional than his golfing skill, as professor of law Randall Kennedy makes clear in his new book, …
Issue: March-April 2003
Making Things Happen
… octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to protest the possibility of war in Iraq. … privatization, as they do now." Donnellan has been surprised by the high rate of political participation among 50- …
Issue: July-August 2003
Shedding Light on Life
… The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects … all these processes that are so fundamental to the lives of cells are typically depicted in drawings or static …
Issue: May-June 2008
China Summer
… Jinhua, a prefecture composed of eight counties in the middle of Zhejiang Province—six hours by slow train south of …
Issue: September-October 2002
A Potter’s Practice
… In a quiet corner of Harvard’s ceramics lab in Allston, buzzing with activity … potter’s wheel sits at her elbow, and several large buckets of clay, each a different shade of red, line the wall behind her. Nearby, a set of shelves hold other …
Brevia
… Harvard Medical School (HMS) plans to wind down operations of the New England Primate Research Center , in Southborough, … The school cited financial pressures; Carolyn Y. Johnson, of The Boston Globe (who earlier reported on the center’s …
Issue: July-August 2013
Dining Workers’ Deadline
… when in 2002 its lowest-paid workers fought for, and won , the right to earn a living wage. Yesterday, the University’s … 591-18 to authorize a strike, following nearly four months of tense contract negotiations between Harvard and UNITE … proportion of employers offering plans with deductibles has risen dramatically in the last decade , reflecting both …
Seeing Science
… “Visual Science: The Art of Research,” opening September 20, explores how … can “record fleeting observations, whether a painting of an animal glimpsed in the field, or an interaction …
Issue: September-October 2019
Sweet Sweat
… Public baths are an ancient tradition. Turks have the hammam, Russians have banyas , and Japanese, their … and deeply relaxing. “You sweat out all the impurities of the work week, you open and shut your pores; it just … the whole day together. And you disconnect from the rest of the world.” The property sits at the end of Suomi …
Issue: July-August 2016
Love Nesting 101
… For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold, populated either with overly …
Issue: July-August 2002
Class Marshals
… The elected marshals of the College class of 2007 proudly held their class banner as …
Issue: July-August 2007