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Testosterone Dips after Vows
… boys, catcalling construction workers, and muscle-bound professional wrestlers who prance like peacocks in the ring are often castigated for having too much testosterone. Fathers …
Issue: March-April 2003
The Rights of Nature
… 54 years old , 8,500 pounds, and, notably, an elephant. Nonetheless, in 2018, a group called the Nonhuman Rights Project … her freedom from the Bronx Zoo. The New York Supreme Court of Appeals ruled against Happy, but what if a constitutional … sue for her freedom? In a new course co-taught by Kemper professor of history Jill Lepore and Smith visiting professor …
New Baseball Coach
… Harvard has appointed Bill Decker, head coach of baseball at Trinity College for the past 22 years, as its new baseball coach, director of athletics Robert Scalise announced on September 25. …
President Obama Urges Criminal-Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review
… Barely two weeks remaining before he’s due to leave office, President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, has written an emotional plea for criminal-justice reform in the January 2017 edition of the Harvard Law Review , arguing … and local level, the total U.S. budget for incarceration rises to a staggering $81 billion, enough to fund …
The Sesquicentennial All-Crimson Team
… Harvard is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Crimson football. To commemorate … the occasion, we have undertaken the daunting task of choosing the greatest players in the program’s history. …
Issue: November-December 2023
A New Radcliffe Room
… The College Club of Boston, 117 years old, calls itself the oldest such women’s club in America. Radcliffe was … and companionship’ while advancing their knowledge of literature, public affairs, history and the arts” (see …
Issue: May-June 2008
Calling Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck
… In the passage that follows from "First Fruits," one of the … stories that, with five personal histories, constitute Roofwalker (Milkweed Editions, $20), the narrator, Georgiana, …
Issue: November-December 2002
Bolstering Business
… The first Harvard Business School (HBS) capital campaign, launched publicly in the fall of 2002, ended on December 31, having raised at least 20 … important for students who are interested in social enterprise,” who launch immediately into entrepreneurial ventures, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Mapping Africa
… These days, maps can represent far more than geographical … North America and Europe are blanketed with such layers of information, while Africa remains in this modern sense “a dark continent,” in the words of Clowes professor of fine art and African and African …
Issue: March-April 2009
Faculty Retirement Incentives Unveiled
… details December 4, 2009. Several Harvard schools, led by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), today announced retirement … faculty members. Some 180 individuals University-wide, out of a recent census of 1,507 full, associate, and assistant …
Cambridge 02138
… WATER AND OIL The quote from Azzam Alwash, director of the Eden Again … want to exchange water for oil." I traveled through much of the Harran plain last year and saw thousands of acres of …
Issue: March-April 2005
Miss North Dakota, et al.
… almost at random and you will be astonished by the range of his or her accomplishments. Consider Carrie Ann Haberstroh '02, of Currier House and Lisbon, North Dakota, who took the fall …
Four in a Row
… be advised that Marco Iannuzzi’s 84-yard kick return in the 2010 Harvard-Yale game will stand as another high moment … end-zone rush at dusk in the triple-overtime thriller of 2005. Unlike those late-game heroics, Iannuzzi’s runback … holding an uncertain 21-14 lead, coach Murphy made a surprise move and sent Winters out to start the second half. …
Issue: January-February 2011
HMS Names Barbara McNeil Acting Dean
… Barbara J. McNeil, Watts professor of health care policy and professor of radiology at Harvard … Medical School (HMS), has been appointed acting dean of the faculty of medicine beginning August 1, Harvard …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Capital Campaign II”
… Download the puzzle Download the solution You can find all puzzles … solvers (At least a dozen solutions came within an hour of posting the puzzle―apparently it was an easy one―so I am … – Bonita Springs, FL Dave Libby – Concord, MA Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Daniel J. Milton – …