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Early Admissions Rise
… The College announced today that 992 applicants from a pool … 4,692 had been granted early-action admission to the class of 2018, entering next autumn. In 2012, early-action … early admissions increase … 1508 … 1510 … Early Admissions Rise … article …
Finding the Descendants of Enslavement
… “This work is doable. The family structures of the Harvard-affiliated slaves may … establish a political structure that would later give rise to apartheid). Later, answering an audience member’s …
The Future of Teaching
… two and a half pandemic semesters, instruction throughout the University first pivoted online, and then, after the summer of 2020, evolved into more sophisticated, engaging forms of Zoom-based teaching and some hybrid classes at the …
Issue: July-August 2021
Sciences Still Young
… for economics, sociology, and political science in the work of Plato and Aristotle, but truthfully, the social … for State and Local Government. … Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Changing of the (Financial) Guard
… a major transition in Harvard’s senior financial personnel; their record and the context for the changes are discussed … below. Finnegan remains a Corporation member, and a member of the board of directors of Harvard Management Company (where the …
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
… Microbes thrive everywhere, from gardens and kitchens to the harshest environments on the planet: under polar ice, in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the sea, in hot springs that spew acid. A single gram of … In fact, microbes have written it, forming rocks and giving rise to the oxygen in the atmosphere, and underpinning many …
Issue: September-October 2017
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
… economic inequality, climate change, and riven politics, the role of capitalist enterprise has come into question—at least when defined solely in …
Issue: March-April 2023
Richard P. Lifton Elected to Harvard Corporation
… RICHARD P. Lifton , president of The Rockefeller University since 2016, will become a member … of mutations in 20 genes that cause blood pressure to rise or fall to extremes by altering renal salt …
Why the Internet of Things Is Big Business
… For those outside Silicon Valley , the “Internet of Things” is a buzzword often associated with … Review (HBR) last fall. Sensors in gadgets, appliances, and machines generate an unprecedented and growing volume of …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Neurobiology of Art
… When Monet's Impressio n Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre's harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the loose brush strokes and unpolished lines …
Issue: July-August 2003
“The Story of the Human Body”
… as 600 generations ago, our species lived as hunter-gatherers, says Daniel Lieberman , Lerner professor of biological sciences and chair of the department … more soft, processed food. Rates of osteoporosis are on the rise, a fact Lieberman attributes to declines in the …
The Art of the Dean
… When she assumed the office in August 2018, Claudine Gay was unusually well prepared to become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She knew the …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Future of Marriage
… When I came to Harvard in 1970, the model for many young people was the wedding in Love … to lose her to an early death, the University's Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister dubs the … increase in any demographer's view — and continues to rise. The cause? "We've pinned this one down to 'the pill' …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Gamut of Grades from A to B
… Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past … and across course sizes," as highlighted for Faculty of Arts and Sciences members in a letter from Susan … sciences. These distinctions aside, grades generally have risen, with the mean increasing from 11.7 to 12.7 on …
Issue: January-February 2002
Stop the Presses
… Harvard has gotten out of the printing business for the third time in its history. On … some necessary subsequent new hiring, the entire enterprise was down to between 50 and 60 people before the recent …
Issue: September-October 2002