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Post Pre-Med
… Every year as hundreds of freshmen come to Harvard intent on the pre-med track, hundreds of upperclassmen leave it. I became one of the many who …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Gravity of Groups
… Mina Cikara was chatting with her future husband and another friend, who was wearing a baseball cap backward. At … Yankees logo. When her boyfriend noticed the icon, he scoffed. “All of a sudden,” she says, “there’s chest puffing and chin …
Issue: May-June 2024
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 – …
Quantum Art
… to science," says Eric Heller, Ph.D. '73, noting that chaos theory "would never have taken off without some gorgeous images--like fractals--that came out of computers." Heller, who is professor of chemistry and of …
President Bacow Plans to Step Down
… president, announced on June 8 that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that … the decision nor its timing should be seen as complete surprises. In his message to the community, Bacow wrote: There …
Issue: September-October 2022
Cambridge 02138
… Mental Health Thank you for “ No Going Back to Normal ” and the compelling picture it provided of the very real crisis in youth mental health and the … “affirmative action” to Harvard College as a noble enterprise. It is not. It is discrimination based upon color. …
Issue: September-October 2022
Vautin Named Acting VP for Administration
… Thomas E. Vautin, the University's associate vice president for facilities and … June 30 retirement . He had previously been named as one of the people accepting an early-retirement incentive ; the … Vautin's appointment, calling him "a dedicated member of the Harvard community for more than three decades." …
Cambridge 02138
… At the end of his article on the difficult times facing academic medical centers … somewhere at the Council on Higher Education hang portraits of all the Ivy League presidents. The only one who is …
Harvard Aims to Become Fossil-Fuel-Free by 2050
… fossil-fuel-neutral by 2026, and fossil-fuel-free by 2050. These ambitious goals are being unveiled a year after the … Change Task Force co-chaired by William C. Clark, Brooks professor of international science, public policy, and human …
Lawsuit Alleges Harvard Mishandled Harassment Complaints
… Hundreds of students joined a campus demonstration Monday afternoon in support of three graduate students who recently filed suit against the University, claiming Harvard downplayed or ignored their …
Success Fighting AIDS in Africa
… The massive U.S. AIDS initiative known as PEPFAR, or “The … has played a major role in changing the course of the global AIDS epidemic. On January 10, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recognized that achievement, and its …
Arts and Sciences: Better Budget, Burgeoning Ambitions
… annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days … programs with faculty members, in the sciences ( PRISE, the Program for Research in Science and Engineering ; …
Fare Thee Well
… Ever wonder why there are so few superlative Chinese restaurants in this … the drill in Indian restaurants is to make big batches of multi-purpose bases and throw specialized seasoning at … the yellow sauce with the grilled scallops ($16.50) is made of cashews and lovage seeds. The seasonings in the squid …
Issue: May-June 2005
A Fast Start
… In April , sprinter Ngozi Musa, approaching the end of her freshman season on Harvard’s track and field … not until too late did she realize that their placement was off by 12 inches. “I didn’t run very well, and I remember …
Issue: July-August 2016
A Modern Yet Classic Shakespeare
… This summer , the American Repertory Theater staged a new Gatsby musical … the couple, hoping to refocus the play on love. “It is often considered to be a play about hate,” she said in an … Actors push around a large wooden wall, a manifestation of the division between both the pair of lovers and the two …