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Genomic Science and Society
… Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome … launched into a presentation of the genome's top 10 surprises--"a format familiar to those of you who stay up too …
Barry’s Corner Breaks Ground
… Officials from Harvard and the City of Boston as well as a few Allston residents braved the bitter cold to gather today at the Harvard-Allston …
Paul Farmer: “Accompaniment” as Policy
… On the afternoon before Commencement, the Harvard Kennedy … a brief address by an individual who embodies some aspect of its public-service mission. Previous speakers have … the implementation of projects, and such failures often arise from the tendency of many people to want to help the …
Chapter & Verse
… Edith Kovach seeks the author and additional text of a poem she believes was … first defined what as "like a sharply cut rock in the midst of a shapeless sea"--an unidentified phrase used by Justice …
Katie Lapp Steps Down as Executive Vice President
… On the morning of May 12, Katie Lapp, Harvard’s executive vice … that she will be stepping down from her position at the end of the summer. Moving into her position will be Meredith … engineering complex and planning for the developing enterprise research campus , among other initiatives in the area. …
At Home with Harvard: Spring Blooms
… when social distancing has changed everyone’s life, all of us working remotely from Harvard Magazine find it … for exercise and to clear our heads. Especially now, when the seasons are beginning to turn in eastern Massachusetts, … capturing images outdoors, the “golden hours” just after sunrise and just before sunset provide dramatic light. For …
Stirred, Shaken, and Sung
… At the end of Pink Martini’s Carnegie Hall debut this past … out in the audience and bounced its way up and down one of the aisles. Even in the venerable hall’s tiered … know enough to be scared.” Pink Martini’s success has surprised many, and that includes Lauderdale himself. “When the …
Issue: January-February 2008
Congress's First Blind Rabbi?
… Last week's New Yorker had a Talk of the Town piece on the man who hopes to be the first blind … ’82, J.D. ’86, has "the most conservative voting record of any member of the House from the Northeast." In June, …
"Tyrant Fever's" Trigger
… When an infection assails the body, the response is predictable. Fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, that achy feeling—we never get just … others. Scientists believe this is because the entire suite of symptoms is governed by hormones called …
Issue: March-April 2008
Sidewalk Bulwarks
… The 1995 truck bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City hastened a … introduced in 1955), ring the Washington Monument and block off Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. …
Issue: July-August 2003
“An Evolutionary Scandal”
… it seems, eschew it. Not love, that is, but sex, which these multi-celled freshwater invertebrates have not had in perhaps 80 million years, say Cabot professor of the natural sciences Matthew Meselson and … scandal. Creatures that can reproduce without sex have arisen sporadically throughout history, but the fossil record …
Harvard Library to Help Preserve Tibetan Literary Heritage
… upload onto its digital storage system 10 million pages of Tibetan literature that survived China’s convulsive Cultural Revolution, the movement between 1966 and 1976 that led to the … and medicine. Despite all the political tensions that have arisen concerning China’s governance of the Tibetan region …
World Music 2.0
… Clayton ’97 (a.k.a. DJ /rupture) came upon live recordings of cumbia sonidera , a Mexican offshoot of a Colombian dance genre. The style is the mainspring for parties at Latin nightclubs …
Issue: November-December 2016
Crimson Women
… Two years in the making, the Women's Guide to Harvard was distributed to students—women and men alike—at the beginning of spring term. The 272-page book, edited by Peggy Lim '01 … to increasing the number, effectiveness, and diversity of female leaders"), is something of a hybrid. On one hand, …
Issue: May-June 2002
A Slightly Grayer Faculty
… The unique institution of tenure gave higher education a loophole when the 1970 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was … law would clog up the employment pipeline with elderly professors who refused to retire, and lead to a "graying" of …
Issue: November-December 2002