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Summer Reflections
… Despite having spent countless hours on the Internet, there is only one Google search I distinctly … and pressed Enter. I was hoping that a beautiful montage of interesting language programs and exotic backpacking … gloomy Irish day and my debilitating boredom into a world of beautiful colors and accented whispers. No such montage …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard at Home
… The University's on-line educational venture, Harvard at Home, offers a number of new vignettes on topics ranging from terrorism and …
Issue: January-February 2002
Online Updates
… The online version of “Super-Earths and Life,” by Phillips professor of astronomy Dimitar Sasselov, director of Harvard’s … (see “ Life’s Beginnings ,” September-October 2013), is the first HarvardX course to incorporate adaptive-learning …
Issue: May-June 2017
Science's “Third Branch”
… Hospital working with Harvard astrophysicists? And why is Professor Jeff Lichtman of Harvard’s Center for Brain Science working with the associate director of Mitsubishi Electric’s industrial …
Issue: May-June 2007
“Carving Out Time”
… In a new exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, “LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time” (on … and artistry are inherently at odds. The centerpiece of the exhibition is “Carving Out Time,” a life-sized suite of woodblock prints depicting a typical day in the artist’s …
More Magical Moments in Store
… "The single most beautiful and pristine moment of my three … occurred on that frozen plaza," Irwin H. Moss, LL.B. '56, of Los Angeles, told this magazine last winter in response …
Issue: January-February 2005
A Life with Lycaenids
… At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial … Madagascar hissing roach, a blackish-brown insect "the size of a baby's fist," which hisses by driving air out of its … pursuing larger questions. How do mutualistic associations arise in the first place? What forces drive their evolution? …
"Networked" Web Extra: Sidebars and Video
… The feature article " Networked " in the May-June issue of Harvard Magazine explores the work of five network scientists at Harvard and their connections …
Issue: May-June 2010
School for Scholars
… continuing-education course on higher education, presidents of seven universities in the People's Republic of China came to Cambridge to learn about the research …
Good-bye to HMI
… There is a revolution afoot in international healthcare. … top doctors. But changes in U.S. visa policy, in light of September 11 and the Iraq war, have made such trips more … skeptical view of Harvard’s involvement in commercial enterprises—his books include Universities in the Marketplace: The …
Issue: May-June 2008
Bunk, in Faded Gingham
… Harvard's arrogance, and its just rewards, are the topics of the following story, which has circulated on … her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an …
Issue: September-October 2001
Cryptic Puzzle: “Expansion”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You can … – Framingham, MA Itai Pines – Portland, OR Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … January-February 2014 …
“Too Normal” for a Goalie?
… March , Harvard goaltender Merrick Madsen ’18 played one of the best games of his life: a 3-0 shutout against Providence, on the road, …
Issue: November-December 2017
Get Out
… free time to explore —summertime has arrived at last. Whether you long to scale new heights in the mountains or take to the water, there are plenty of ways to burn off that pent-up wintertime energy. For newbie explorers, …
Issue: July-August 2023
The Immunity Engineer
… tells starts with a slug. “This slug does a really good job of creating a mucus that allows it to stick really tightly, … so predators can’t just peel it off and eat it,” he says. The mucus, a marvelous material, turns out to consist of a … emphasized the University’s ambition for a new enterprise focused on bioengineering, one reason for Mooney’s …
Issue: January-February 2025