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Abortion Rights Advocacy: Past and Present
… In 1970 , when Mary Summers ’70 and three other women’s rights activists—Jane Pincus, Karen Weinstein, … Rights 1970 synthesized the stories and experiences of several women and stated that, of the 800,000 abortions performed in that year, only one …
Rebooting Online Education
… This article was reported before students left campus and the University pivoted to remote teaching , effective with the end of spring recess on March 23 ( a huge effort highlighted by … funds and donor support to underwrite the fledgling enterprise. The hope was that MOOCs would: help educate the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Harvard Dives Into Data Science
… The two faculty leaders of a new data-science initiative … the University expects to attract to its Allston “enterprise research campus.” (For an overview, see Harvard … Nohria wrote. And he pointed out, “An Allston enterprise zone that realizes the potential of the …
Highbrow Lingerie
… Lingerie and literature don’t come together that often, but when naming her intimates brand, … pieces. “I’m still learning, but I’ve been surprised at how many people end up buying the crazy things.” As …
Issue: May-June 2010
Curbing Clots
… The old adage “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” now has … rutin’s antithrombotic property when they screened a set of 5,000 compounds for their ability to block the action of a key protein involved in the formation of …
Issue: September-October 2012
Bioengineering in Motion
… online extra accompanies " Life Sciences, Applied ," from the January-February 2009 issue of Harvard Magazine. … channels in a polymer. The lab group directed by Homans professor of surgery Joseph Vacanti uses a microfabrication …
Issue: January-February 2009
Wine: White or Red?
… David Sinclair, associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, is often asked about sources for resveratrol. “The molecule you can buy at a store, or on the Web, is a … that were available on the market at the time, and were surprised to find that none had any resveratrol in them. “The …
Issue: September-October 2005
Leading with Care
… 2016, a 4:30 A.M. phone call woke Michael Hill ’93, then general manager of baseball’s Miami Marlins, from a sound sleep. The team’s … baseball insider. In 2021, after 25 years in MLB front offices (including seven as Marlins general manager, only …
Issue: March-April 2024
World’s End
… got its name remains a mystery. But when you step out from the trees along the farthest edge of this 251-acre peninsula jutting into Hingham Harbor and look back across the water at the toothpick peaks of the Boston skyline 15 miles away, the name seems to fit. …
Issue: September-October 2017
Winter Sports in Brief
… Women's Ice Hockey The icewomen (11-6-2) revenged an early 3-2 road loss to Yale with an 11-2 blowout at home in January. Four of the team's six defeats were to Wisconsin and Minnesota … '05 led all scorers with 30 goals and 46 points at the end of January. Basketball The men (7-10, 2-2 Ivy) split their …
Issue: March-April 2005
A Startling Achievement in Regenerative Medicine
… Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has figured out how to transform one type of cell in a living animal into another, using a new process …
What Happens to Harvard’s Workers?
… workers, through May 28. “We applaud Harvard for doing the right thing and implementing a leave policy that will … this unprecedented crisis," Roxana Rivera, vice president of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, said in a … services to security, dining, and other vendor enterprises. Though these employees formally work for third-party …
Harvard Scientists Create First Disease-Specific Human Stem Cell Lines
… Two teams of researchers within the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) announced in the last … they used to achieve this, pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in 2006, employs viruses to reset adult …
Sweeping Change for Science
… The University Planning Committee for Science and … core equipment, infrastructure, and the administration of proposed new centers and institutes, or the capital costs of constructing a new campus in Allston). The report also …
Issue: September-October 2006
Cities and Suburbs
… Can our cities be made livable for all kinds of citizens, or are they condemned to be office ghettoes and entertainment zones … but none of those really wonderful, serendipitous surprises could have happened in a place like New York without a …