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Alumni Sargent and Sims Share Nobel Prize in Economics
… The 2011 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Thomas … at the Hoover Institution, based at Stanford, and Berkley professor of economics and business at New York University, … affected by unanticipated events. The price of oil rises unexpectedly, the central bank sets an interest rate …
Harvard Presidential Search Student Advisers Named
… The members of the student advisory committee for Harvard’s presidential … disclosed on August 25 and completing the roster of such advisers. Each advisory committee is in touch with …
Affording a Harvard Graduation
… Graduation is a rite of passage when families are united, tears are shed, and … “I can go to this event that costs $40, or I can eat for the day,” Lenica Morales-Valenzuela ’15 remembers thinking; she missed the majority of the Senior Week events because she chose to work Dorm …
“What Happened to the Dream?”
… Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 , she feels like “forward progress in the world has stopped yet again.” On Wednesday evening, … “What happened to the dream?” Though King outlined a vision of equality in his famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, … reminded the audience that for every step forward, there is often a step back. Lynch served as U.S. attorney general …
Cambridge 02138
… English 10’s Virtues I was sorry to read that a survey of English literature will no longer be required of Harvard … would have thought that a student who spends a year reading the likes of Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, and Woolf … brought them face to face with the nature of their enterprise more than that initial, sometimes bewildering immersion …
Issue: July-August 2009
Toward Precision Medicine
… “radical transformations” in medicine in coming decades, the dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) has authorized a full-scale … For example, type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease, arises spontaneously, typically in children and young adults. …
Issue: May-June 2015
Potholes, Pensions, and Politics
… In January , the newly elected mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, J.D. … stomach to implement reforms to fix Houston’s financial crises. But he has moved surprisingly fast since moving into …
Issue: May-June 2016
Beyond Cambridge
… less valid as friend after friend returns from around the globe with exciting stories and a fresh outlook. Anyone … faculty members and administrators have sung the praises of study abroad. Most recently, dean of admissions and financial aid William Fitzsimmons '67 …
Harvard Presidential Search Committees Named
… As the search for a successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow … advisory committees were unveiled today; a third committee, of students drawn from across the University, will be … faculty are the lifeblood of our academic enterprise, and it will be invaluable to have the varied …
Martin Karplus ’51 Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… Martin Karplus '51 , Richards professor of chemistry emeritus , today was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, along with Michael Levitt, of …
Casual Contact
… My father, Class of 1957, says that in the 1950s, undergraduates used to converse with professors over leisurely lunches at restaurants like the … who attended Harvard only 25 years ago, still register surprise when I tell them that women live among men in the Yard, …
Cancer Treatment Gets Personal
… Cancers , long defined primarily by where they arose (breast, lung, blood cells, brain) are proving to … molecular makeup. This ability to understand the genetics of individual cancers is changing the way the disease is … genes put people at higher risk. But more often, cancer arises from so-called somatic mutations: genetic changes and …
Issue: November-December 2013
Stem-cell Science
… Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the … is always new skin to replace the cells that die and slough off in the shower every day. The source of the new you? Stem cells. Doctors believe that if they can …
Issue: July-August 2004
Video: A Pitcher’s Grips
… , Harvard varsity baseball pitcher Brent Suter ’12 ( profiled in the May-June 2011 issue ) shows how he grips the baseball to … … Video: Baseball pitcher Brent Suter ’12 demonstrates four of his pitches … 1532 … 1521 … 1520 … 1507 … Video: A …
Economic Woman
… Women's work? A traveling exhibition offers engaging examples: Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785), a … protecting her economic autonomy. By law, married women of the day had no right to buy or sell property in their own … innovative studio owned and operated by artists, which surprised skeptics by doing well. She spearheaded the founding …
Issue: January-February 2003