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FAS Dean Outlines Priorities
… Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined his priorities for the academic year in his first forward-looking annual letter …
Football: Harvard 42, San Diego 20
… Until this week, no Harvard football team had ventured to the West Coast since September 24, 1949, when Stanford … in these western precincts evaporated in the blast furnace of the Stanford performance,” reported The Boston Globe . … 38,000 on hand.” “We played football like we had been chloroformed,” one Harvard player told the Globe . With 4,256 on …
Teaching Values
… Should discussions of moral principles form part of the curriculum in public schools? Katherine Simon '85 has …
Issue: January-February 2002
Harvard Details Climate-Change Actions
… Last October, in the wake of strong student support for divesting University … in companies engaged in producing fossil fuels (part of a campaign to promote this idea nationwide ), President …
Caviar and Heather
… The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of … (Counterpoint, $26) is a captivatingly written chronicle of a fast disappearing fish with a mysterious history and an …
Issue: November-December 2005
Vision and Justice
… Eight months into the Civil War, in December 1861, Frederick Douglass … and reformers are all picture-makers—and this is the secret of their power and of their achievements,” Douglass said in … equity and justice in America.” As part of this enterprise, one of her projects included guest-editing a 2016 …
Issue: July-August 2024
Loss
… One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel awkward during the first week (and for me, long after); it is absolutely …
Issue: September-October 2001
Commencement Confetti
… Student linen-crew workers made up the dorm beds that would welcome reunioners. Some beds were … said Class Day guest speaker Conan O'Brien '85, the host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. "The last time I was … at www.harvard-magazine.com. Andrew S. Grove, the chairman of Intel, was Class Day speaker at the Business School and …
Tata Hall Dedicated at HBS
… at Harvard Business School (HBS) each year, and many of them will be living and learning in Tata Hall, dedicated in … many years. “Those 13 weeks were the most important time of my life in the way they transformed me and increased my …
Susanne Ebbinghaus
… The recently appointed Hanfmann curator of ancient art at … empire and their reception in the West. This was the topic of the thesis that earned her a doctorate from Oxford in …
Issue: November-December 2006
Questions 101
… 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 America Competitive Again
… and a failing public education system are just a few of the many serious problems the United States government can’t … economic growth. Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School Michael Porter calls this …
Issue: July-August 2021
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
Autism Update
… In a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Boston Autism Consortium members reported a significant …
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 …