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Next Man Up
… 34-7, in New Haven to cap a 9-1 season and earn a share of the Ivy football championship (its fifteenth), the offseason had been tumultuous, for football and the Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2014
Unleashing Light
… The light microscope launched modern biology in the … seventeenth century, letting scientists view the components of life that exist far beyond the range of unaided human vision. But light travels in waves, and its …
Issue: January-February 2007
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives
… For detailed accounts of the panel presentations and access to a recorded webcast of the September 25 discussion, consult “ Financial Crisis, …
Three Former Harvard Football Stars Featured in NFL Playoffs
… weekend, three former Crimson tight ends—Kyle Juszczyk ’ 13 of the San Francisco 49ers (who these days is a fullback), … the fourth round by the Baltimore Ravens. Murphy is not surprised by the way each has established himself. “They all had …
Three Harvard Alumni Share Physics Nobel Prize
… Three Harvard alumni have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries pertaining to the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae. … rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates themselves. In 1998, cosmology …
Virtual Friendship, for Real
… As research is illuminating the human social networks that have existed since time immemorial, a parallel thread of inquiry is exploring a new kind of social interaction: online friendship. At Harvard, …
Issue: May-June 2010
Vote Now
… choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots will be … at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 27, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers …
Issue: March-April 2010
Endowment Encore... and More?
… The Harvard Corporation has authorized another large increase in the distribution of funds from the endowment to support the academic operations of the separate schools and the University as a whole. …
Brevia
… Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford Foundation has underwritten a new Institute for … in public service." Gail Christopher , executive director of the awards program and the new institute, expects to …
Democracy
… George III that later became a military hospital during the Revolutionary War and, later still, housed Elbridge Gerry, who served as governor of Massachusetts and vice president of the United States. My comings and goings on most days …
Issue: March-April 2020
Frances Glessner Lee
… trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years, … both her married name and her honorary title—captain of the New Hampshire State Police. A hybrid of the calling card ubiquitous in the genteel society into …
Issue: September-October 2005
Pranks in Pusey Library
… this summer have been greeted by a large cardboard cutout of a cow—part of an exhibit celebrating The Harvard Lampoon and the role it has played in Harvard’s …
Chao Center Dedicated at HBS
… including U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, and Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker ’79, gathered this morning for the official dedication of the new gateway to the …
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
… by study, experiment by experiment—so that each new piece of knowledge rests on a firm foundation of preceding work. Discovering that influential pieces of research cannot, in fact, be replicated by other researchers in other labs is akin to discovering a …
Staying in Touch
… As of August 1, users of Post.Harvard —the University’s on-line alumni community—may note some changes that make the system easier to use. The new features reflect upgrades …
Issue: September-October 2005