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Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings
… presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing neo-Georgian style, with its warm, ivy-covered brick? Or will a modern expression of a campus arise? A Perry Dean Rogers building (above, left) with a …
Issue: September-October 2001
"City-building" for an Urban Campus
… presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing neo-Georgian style, with its warm, ivy-covered brick? Or will a modern expression of a campus arise? A Perry Dean Rogers building (above, left) with a …
Issue: September-October 2001
2009 GSAS Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have … their graduate study at Harvard. … The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal honors alumni whose …
Issue: July-August 2009
Sean Kelly Named Dean of Arts and Humanities
… Sean Kelly, Martignetti professor of philosophy, has been appointed dean of the division of arts and humanities within Harvard’s Faculty …
Cervical Cancer, Deep History, Diagnostic Chips
… The front pages of the New York Times’ s news, arts, and science sections on … Vinegar and Ingenuity,” highlighted the use in Thailand of an inexpensive technique—employing vinegar and topical …
Cambridge 02138
… ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, A SKEPTIC'S VIEW The case against Harvard Medical School's foray into … is much deeper than the mere closed-mindedness implied by Professor Daniel Federman in Craig Lambert's " The New Ancient … snowy trek from Mower to the Union. That night, to my surprise, a warm bowl of split-pea soup curiously made its way …
Issue: May-June 2002
Two Harvard Students Awarded Marshall Scholarships
… The 2016 class of Marshall Scholars includes seniors Bianca Mulaney and Rebecca Panovka. Mulaney will study at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); her research …
Gender Gap
… H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a two-day symposium hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Addressing a national academic … he had suggested steps for better accommodating women professors (see " Women and Tenure ") -- his subject was …
Issue: March-April 2005
Developing Dads
… Dads are everywhere in our society. They are fundamental to many families and make excellent … when fathers provide significant care and attention to offspring, is evident in many species of birds, fish, and … neural responses to babies and young children. It is no surprise to read that the brain is among the most flexible …
Issue: May-June 2024
Obsessed at Harvard
… '50, who died in 1999, once told a would-be interviewer, "The facts of my life are so few, tedious, and irrelevant to anything … is no point in going into them." Yet he granted dozens of interviews over the course of his life, enough so that …
Issue: January-February 2002
Wendell Phillips
… for youth.” In this opinion Adams was not alone among the descendants of New England’s colonial aristocracy. Phillips was Beacon … tireless agitator for the most radical and unpopular causes of his time. So effective was he that an 1867 newspaper …
Issue: May-June 2007
While You Were Away
… Ian Frazier ’73, the journalist and humorist who has taken up the pen for … couplet in that magazine’s December 23 issue . Frazier (profiled here ) niftily memorialized the unusual doings … Climate alarm has ripped the veil. Read a news account of the divestment protest appears here . Locally, the …
Harvard’s Sustainability Plan
… May 11, Harvard released a new sustainability action plan. The report takes a holistic look at the University’s impact … environment, societal equity, and the health and wellbeing of people into the actions we take and how we measure … cooling, and powering buildings account for 97 percent of the University’s direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …
From Corporate Lawyer to Waffle Entrepreneur
… By the time Emily Cole Groden, J.D. ’15, was 10 years old, she knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life: practice corporate law. She didn’t know exactly … around for something fun to do and decided on a seminar offered by the Food Law and Policy Clinic. “If you know …
A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts
… When the conversation turns to frogs, wildlife artist Bradley … will tell you that this is the handsomest frog in all of North America.” Davis grins, lets that disclosure sink in … he continues, “because there are only about 100 species of frogs in North America. Somewhere like Ecuador, you’d …
Issue: March-April 2022