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An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
… A 9,000-light-year-long ribbon of matter undulates through our sun’s interstellar … made of hundreds of different clouds of dust and gas—the largest such structure of interacting nebulae yet … in the map—and that was when the Radcliffe Wave surprised them. The discovery also raises new questions. “The …
At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
… President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), effective in …
Mitigating Global Threats
… Amid leadership crises across Europe and mounting economic and defense … Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, M.P.A. ’97, is on the front lines of diplomacy, working with allies to do “everything we can …
Issue: March-April 2025
Echoes of 1969
… In the late 1960s, American society seemed in crisis. The Tet Offensive that began in January 1968 underscored the scale, violence, and increasingly apparent fecklessness of the war in Vietnam. The combat itself had opened ugly …
Issue: March-April 2019
Board of Overseers Campaign Hotly Contested
… As voting in this year’s election for members of the Board of Overseers concludes—the deadline is August 18 … that.” Although these claims and counterclaims do not rise (or more accurately, fall) to the level of discourse …
Kiefer Sutherland Named Man of the Year
… Joining an A-list cast of Pudding Pot alumni such as Robert De Niro and Stephen Spielberg, actor Kiefer Sutherland has been named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year. Known best for his award-winning role as …
The Dog Days of Wintersession
… at home in a city where even winter temperatures hovered in the 60s. But on that mid-January morning, Abbas stood bundled up in fleece on the back of a wooden sled, gliding across a frozen lake on the Maine-New Hampshire border, pulled along by a team of huskies. To put it plainly, he says, “It couldn’t be more …
Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh
… Two new exhibits at the Bruce Museum, in Greenwich, Connecticut, explore Danish … paintings and scientific imaging that help unveil the truth of what we can see. At the core of “On the Edge of the World: Masterworks by Laurits …
Issue: March-April 2020
All of Harvard's a Stage
… From backstage , I can hear only the rustle of papers and the clatter of metal chairs against the hollow risers. Through the cracks in the set, I peer first with one …
The Most Important Course?
… me for some time. Was Harvard encouraging us to think about the meaning of our lives? One said no. She had expected more of such … routine. The program has been quite popular, to the surprise of its creators. “We expected there to be 15 or 20 …
Issue: May-June 2011
On the Tip of Your Tongue
… In the diagram shown here, connections are drawn between words … language. In a test designed to take users to the tip-of-the-tongue state (where they are at the edge of being able to recall a word), people had an easier time …
Issue: May-June 2010
Friction at the Entry Level
… The debate over Hispanic assimilation in America has tended to sidestep a troubling reality. In many of the places where immigrants are making the deepest … crime has gone up. Borjas graphed a correlation between a rise in immigration in the 1970s and an increased …
Issue: May-June 2007
Sheryl Sandberg Preaches the Value of Honesty
… “ The most important thing I can tell you is to open … speaker, Sheryl Sandberg ’91, M.B.A. ’95, chief operating officer of Facebook since 2008 and author of the 2013 bestseller …
The Brain’s Light Show
… IN the march-april 2012 issue, Erin O'Donnell writes about a … shows neurons lighting up as they fire . Watch examples of this work, by Loeb associate professor of the natural … averaged over n = 98 action potentials. Note the delayed rise and fall of the action potential in the small …
Issue: March-April 2012