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Educating Women
… Vaginas: An Owner’s Manual by Liz Topp ’98 and her mother, obstetrician/gynecologist Carol Livoti. Topp dedicated … the Harvard Tampoon, when she was in college. “It’s part of us, part of our structure. We want it to be something where women can …
Issue: May-June 2005
Gains for Graduate Students
… on December 7. In a message to faculty colleagues, then-dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Theda Skocpol diagnosed and …
Issue: March-April 2008
Hurting Hands
… In the computer laboratories of the Science Center, where I … with RSI varies as much as the range of conditions it comprises. Initial symptoms include pain or weakness in the …
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
… Late in the second quarter on a sunny, seasonably warm Saturday 110 … a football near midfield. In the thirty-fourth playing of The Game, undefeated and defending national champion … Harvard was leading archrival Yale 3-2. The cynosure of all eyes was Charlie Brickley—football’s best player, the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Museums, Making Their Way
… James Cuno, Ph.D. ’85, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, was at the Museum of … He has helped plan responses for the four branches that comprise the arts institution: its museum, research center, …
University People
… Cherry Murray Innovation Honorand Cherry Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been … director of Harvard Business School’s social enterprise initiative, the 20-year-old program focusing on …
Issue: November-December 2014
Can Happiness Make You Healthier?
… In the quest to study human happiness, including its causes and … undertaking. Joy, euphoria, contentment, satisfaction—each of these, at times, has been used as a proxy or emphasized … for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health aims to change that as it pursues a new …
Issue: November-December 2016
Square Eats
… , a Cambridge mainstay since 1994, might be overlooked in the constant rush toward the newly bold and beautiful. Don't … his French-Cuban menu, chef Paul O'Connell dishes out some of the tastiest fare around. The cassoulet à la Toulouse is an array of slow-cooked white beans, lamb, and garlic sausage; the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Allston Performing Arts Center Planned
… On November 30, Harvard filed plans with the City of Boston to construct a new performing arts center … River, the arts have been envisioned as an important part of the mix on the Allston campus. A museum to house …
Tokyo Disney
… opening in 1983 was later hailed as nothing less than "the most important cultural event of the eighties in Japan." With 125 million visitors in its … squealing in a high-pitched voice," Raz notes. It's no surprise that Tokyo Disneyland is the first choice for first …
A Work in Progress
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report In November 2007, … 22, Amaker’s squad suffered the second most-lopsided defeat of his stint in Cambridge: a 76-27 thrashing by the third-ranked* University of Virginia. Although the margin of defeat against the …
“Harvard Failed Her”
… In a message to the community this afternoon, President Lawrence S. Bacow … that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take … of female faculty members in the government department has risen from 9 percent in 1980 to 31.3 percent in 2019, …
Enforcing Social-Club Sanctions Won’t Require Oaths
… The College’s policy to sanction members of unrecognized … adjudicating organization if questions about jurisdiction arise. Although the implementation committee recommended a …
Harvard Corporation Elects Shirley Tilghman
… and remains a faculty member: she has been elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing … an anchor for the biotechnology and life-sciences enterprises clustered in and around Cambridge’s Kendall Square. …
Facial Pheenoms
… wife, he noticed a man he had not seen in decades across the street. “That’s Nathan Skidelsky,” Cagney told his wife. … actors whose only claim to fame is a 1982 commercial. “Most of them not only recall the face, but remember the context … psychology who has studied six super-recognizers. He and professor of psychology Ken Nakayama recently published their …
Issue: September-October 2009