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James W. Breyer Elected to Harvard Corporation
… a partner at Accel Partners , has been elected a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University's senior governing … includes not only rapidly growing start-up enterprises like Facebook, on which Accel investors realized gains …
A Victory—and a Campaign
… annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days … finances: after projecting large deficits in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and sharp decline in the value …
Issue: November-December 2012
Frontiers
… A Disruptor, Decoded A chemical plasticizer, produced by the millions of tons annually for use in clothing, shampoo, carpets, … linked to birth defects and male infertility. Now a team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School professor of …
Issue: March-April 2020
News in Brief
… Acting on the Slavery Report Two recent appointments advance actions … recommended by the report on the University and the legacy of slavery (see “ Harvard’s Ties to Slavery ,” … agreements, and participated in or founded 50 startup enterprises. They have also published more than 2,700 scientific …
Issue: January-February 2023
Cilia in C-Major
… In the human ear, it takes only a few millionths of a second … times longer. Hearing "is fast because it's simple," says professor of neurobiology David P. Corey of Harvard Medical …
Issue: March-April 2005
Militant about "Islamism"
… a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a … solution." ~Daniel Pipes Richard Pipes, Baird research professor of history, recounts in his recent book, Vixi, that … to current events." Thus began his efforts to publicize the rise and perceived dangers of militant Islam. In a profusion …
Issue: January-February 2005
Winter, East and West
… By informal tradition, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has had a poet laureate … , who reads a topical or amusing work at one or more of the seasonal association gatherings in Cambridge. The … Robert R. Bowie Jr. '73, revealed in his Harvard Magazine profile , at the outset of his HAA presidency, that his tutor …
Landmark Globes
… "The northern hemispheres were almost black from dirt," says David A. Cobb, head of the Harvard Map Collection, referring to a terrestrial … mass production. He abandoned the earlier practice of engraving a map directly on a solid sphere of wood or …
Issue: March-April 2005
“Alternative” Placebos
… Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning,” …
Issue: September-October 2006
Storybook Ending
… Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League … squad, 37-6. The Yale Bowl upset dashed Old Eli’s hopes of completing a perfect season, and brought Harvard its … outright Ivy title since 1997. Not since the grand opening of the Bowl in 1914, when Harvard spoiled the occasion with …
Issue: January-February 2008
General Education, Finally Defined
… Following extensive consultation with colleagues throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Task Force on General Education has readied a revised, third version of what undergraduates should be expected to study beyond …
Issue: March-April 2007
Are Super Responders Special?
… As a medical student in the 1980s, Isaac “Zak” Kohane heard stories—from patients, mentors, and colleagues—of nearly miraculous recoveries from cancer. A patient given … that they didn’t really have a cancer.” Now Nelson professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School …
Issue: September-October 2019
Heather Gerken
… Heather Gerken Photograph by Stu Rosner When the election of a … came knocking at Heather Gerken's door. An assistant professor at Harvard Law School, Gerken "ended up on …
Issue: March-April 2002
"Veritas"
… President Lawrence H. Summers took stock of the ever wetter, colder weather as the Commencement … address, on the search for truth within a university enterprise like Harvard. But given the prevailing "humiditas" and …
Issue: July-August 2002
Diet, Exercise, and You
… diabetic. Although genetic factors undoubtedly contribute, the pace of change is so fast that the explanation cannot possibly … scientists working in the area agree that some variation of too much food and too little activity is to blame. But …
Issue: November-December 2008