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A Conversation with Rahul Mehrotra
… My article (“ Designs for a New India ”) explores some of your projects that are open to the public, but you also design private homes. Tell me about some of your favorite residential projects. A lot of the houses …
SEAS launch
… The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has posted photographs and audio of the symposia from last week's launch ceremonies. … The …
Cole Porter to Coolio
… They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, … with rhythmic sexual panting. The dance floor is a zoo of gators and ponies, Lacoste and Polo. On the walls are … night and Sunday morning and Harvard is "out." A group of students stumbles from the door of one of the outwardly …
Issue: July-August 2004
Summers in Summary
… Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for … and around the world, “I’m convinced that, when the history of our period is written three centuries from now…the major … nations come together, and the transformative effect of life-sciences research—particularly in its biomedical …
Issue: September-October 2006
Robotic Fly
… "If I could go back in time and choose again the field I would get into," he says, "it might be a toss-up between engineering and biology." ~Professor Robert Wood, Harvard Microbiotics Lab [video: … swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the research of Robert Wood, assistant professor of engineering and …
Issue: January-February 2008
A Particulate Problem
… Twenty-five years ago, a team of eight University researchers famously estimated the critical impact of air pollution on mortality rates across six American …
Issue: July-August 2018
Size, Strength, and Maturity: Josue Ortiz Draws Kudos
… Defensive tackle Josue Ortiz ’11, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine, was the subject of a preseason football article in the Boston Globe . In …
Casbah Nights
… It is strangely joyful to walk down the narrow, Colonial-era streets of Charlestown, lit by vintage-style gas lamps, and through the doors of Tangierino. The Moroccan restaurant's velvety, …
Issue: January-February 2005
Women and Alcohol
… When Shelly F. Greenfield joined the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1992, scientists were … gender-specific variables that affect health,” says the professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital. During the last 15 years, …
Issue: July-August 2011
Harvard, Ivies to Join Big Ten
… will be a significant day in college sports history,” the Ivy League and the Big Ten announced that they would … Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale—will join the 18 schools of the Big Ten (which next season will include former Pac-12 … superconference. The Ivy schools will be permitted to offer athletic scholarships, reversing a policy that has …
COVID-19: An Emergency, and a Long-Term Challenge
… on Friday, March 20, epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch , a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the school’s Center for …
Comings and Goings
… Many Harvard clubs boast a full roster of alumni events in May and June, including the selected list of speakers found below. Contact the club in your area for …
Jeffrey Toobin to Speak at HLS Class Day
… ’86, senior legal analyst for CNN and a staff writer for The New Yorker, will be the guest speaker at Harvard Law … for ABC. In 2000, he won an Emmy award for his coverage of the Elián González custody battle. The author of numerous books, including several best-sellers (among …
A Masterpiece Reconstructed
… Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece , a new book edited by art … I Tatti fellow Machtelt Israëls, details the reconstruction of a "lost" Italian Renaissance altarpiece. Below, view … the main article, " Masterpiece Pieces ." Reconstruction of Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece, front view. …
Issue: November-December 2009
A Musical Education
… ’39 made her stage debut, in Boston’s Jordan Hall, at the age of 40. Her background, as the last pupil of Wanda Landowska, the Polish-French harpsichordist …
Issue: May-June 2005