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… The countdown began on February 28. I was jogging across Tercentenary Theatre (coincidentally, the site of my impending graduation) when I was addressed by one of … Dunster Street, the pledge remains a self-motivated enterprise. "OCS definitely supports us in identifying resources," …
Making an Invisible World Visible
… regarded as an information-carrying molecule that contains the instructions describing how to arrange amino acids to … dynamic actions. Yin is a master builder and engineer of DNA at the molecular scale. A Harvard Medical School professor of systems biology affiliated with the Wyss …
Autism Update
… In a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Boston Autism Consortium members reported a significant …
An Ageless Voice on Aging
… In the teeming universe of Shakespeare’s plays, you can find people of any and every age. There are young children like Mamillius, the king’s son in …
Issue: March-April 2010
Jens Meierhenrich
… A very long bookshelf in Jens Meierhenrich’s Harvard office holds a complete transcript of the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals, in 42 volumes. …
Issue: July-August 2006
Fall Comes into Focus
… begin arriving in Cambridge, about three weeks hence, they will enter a community temporarily transformed by the … The College announced on July 6 that only about 40 percent of the 6,700 undergraduates would be permitted to be in … of our community while also protecting our academic enterprise. With less than a month to go before the start of the …
Moving Microbial Science Forward
… Today, operating out of borrowed space in Harvard’s Center for the Environment, the Microbial Sciences Initiative ( … who typically bridge two labs in different departments, often across schools; sponsors 12 undergraduate summer …
Issue: November-December 2007
Phenome Fellow
… In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical … to pursue studies in biology, to the great surprise of the monks. Like Jesuits, Marists are rigorous in …
Issue: January-February 2003
News from Belgrade
… The Harvard Club of Serbia celebrated the country’s new government—which includes President Boris … Bozidar Djelic, M.B.A.-M.P.A. ’91, and the minister of foreign affairs, Vuk Jeremic, M.P.A. ’03—with a …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Fever for Chèvre
… For Max Sandvoss ’02 and his brother, Trystan, the chores associated with making small-batch … television actor. The seed for their career change grew out of long conversations during an extended vacation in the … changed his first name to Max.) Now they look after a herd of more than 100 Nubian and Alpine goats. The goats’ milk, …
Issue: September-October 2013
A Man for One Season
… It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. With new quarterback Andrew Hatch ably …
Issue: November-December 2010
Soledad O’Brien: Don’t Take Advice
… 2013 Harvard Class Day speaker Soledad O’Brien ’88 about the best advice she ever received, she recalled what her … true: Most people are idiots, she said, because instead of building you up, they will tell you why you will fail. … on the life you should lead,” O’Brien told the audience of seniors, families, and friends gathered in Tercentenary …
“No Limits” to China-Russia Relations?
… How might the war in Ukraine affect the relationship between Russia … alliance in the world? “The honest answer with a lot of these issues is, it’s such a black box that we don’t … the severity of the Russian movements caught them by surprise.” It’s impossible to be sure, but “my suspicion,” he …
“Design Is Not an Intellectual Exercise”
… Standing before a graduating class of soon-to-be architects and designers and urban planners at the Graduate School of Design’s Class Day, Teju Cole—the Vidal professor of the …
Obama's Facebook Playbook
… If the Barack Obama campaign's web presence reminds you of … The man behind my.barackobama.com is Chris Hughes ’06, one of Facebook's founders. As a New York Times article on …