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Trails of Tears, and Hope
… The hamlet of Alkali Lake, about 100 miles north of Vancouver, is home to one of a handful of surviving … Creek, 70 Mile House, Horsefly, and Likely. In many ways, the history of the 400 Indians living there resembles that …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Living Harvard Force
… The first in what is now a 90-year series of alumni … of College alumni are 70 or over; the median age has risen to 49. For obvious reasons, most directories begin to …
Sources of Funding
… Endowment income distributed for operations makes up the largest share of Harvard’s revenue: 31 percent in the fiscal year ended … the individual schools’ finances vary depending on the size of their endowments (the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, …
Issue: January-February 2005
Joy of Jades
… This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the twelfth century B.C. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums, copyright © 2003 …
Issue: November-December 2003
“The Future We Shape Is Up to Us”
… In an opening address inaugurating the new academic year, President Drew Faust encouraged the … that lie ahead—and the other on the fiscal realities of a still-weakened economy. “Harvard is about … and the foundations of our nation’s research enterprise.” As technology evolves and gives rise to new …
The Politics of Climate Change Legislation
… Flawed strategy on the part of environmentalists doomed legislative attempts to … during President Obama’s first term, argued Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol at a …
The Loneliness Pandemic
… “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent … homeless shelters. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during … Human Flourishing Program, found some information that surprised him. An unrelated collaboration with the American …
Issue: January-February 2021
Kevin Beasley at the ICA/Boston
… Artist Kevin Beasley’s sculptures resonate with what’s not there. He typically uses found objects, from Air Jordans and … at the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, where 16 of Beasley’s works are on display through August 26. Among … Virginia-born Beasley is a relatively young artist on the rise. He holds fine-art degrees from the College for …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard’s Nobel Prize Incubator
… A striking phenomenon in the biomedical sciences is that great scientists sometimes arise in clusters at a particular time and place that fosters … examples are the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and the National …
Exposed
… your knowledge, a high-resolution camera took a photograph of your hand, capturing your fingerprints. You might be upset. Or—if you were visiting Disneyland, where they already make an image of your fingerprint to save you … could collect; it didn’t apply to commercial enterprises like credit-card companies. No one imagined today’s …
Issue: September-October 2009
Bill R. Appleton
… for a Ph.D. in solid state physics at Rutgers and a tour of duty at the nearby Bell Laboratories, in 1967 Bill R. Appleton … By this spring, when he retired from Oak Ridge--the enterprise employs 5,000 people, one-third of them degreed …
A Collage of Colleges
… “Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be … arts colleges?” That is the question, posed by Plummer professor of Christian morals Peter J. Gomes, with which the …
Issue: January-February 2006
A Scatter of Acorns
… can break your heart. An exquisitely detailed new example of the genre, The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball (Pantheon, $24.95), by …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Senior Members
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were Rose Downes Arnold ’36, 90, of Arlington, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed. ’32, … L ’33, 101, of Kennebunk, Maine. Both were recognized at the afternoon ceremony by HAA president Teresita …
Issue: July-August 2010
Bards of America
… , when Alison Carey ’82 and Bill Rauch ’84 were traveling the country with Cornerstone Theater Company, the ensemble … to produce classic plays adapted to the particularities of their communities. In town after town, a similar thing … director, proposed the project a decade ago, to comprise 37 plays in total—the same number in Shakespeare’s …
Issue: September-October 2017