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Cultures in Conflict
… In 1996, Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington published … a provocative and influential book called The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order . …
Issue: July-August 2009
Betting on Lookout Farm
… Farm in Natick, Massachusetts, could succeed not in spite of the pandemic, but because of it. “‘Open an outdoor restaurant?’” he says, sitting at a …
Issue: September-October 2021
Connections Across Continents
… The existence of a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) project in Santiago represents a … to become general manager of Luksic’s educational enterprise, Fundación Educacional Oportunidad . And another HGSE …
Issue: March-April 2009
Cambridge 02138
… at least with regard to Harvard College. He addresses whether studying English, for example, should be organized “in … institutions (including Harvard’s graduate and professional schools) should be about professional training, … much at peace in nature away from civilization. It's no surprise that he chose to live in the wilderness, or that he …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard Corporation to Drop Law School Shield Linked to Slavery
… The Harvard Corporation has agreed to abandon the … Harvard Law School (HLS) shield, per the recommendation of a committee of HLS faculty, students, and alumni released early this …
Memorial Church Interim Minister
… With the fall semester about to begin—and with it Memorial Church’s venerable tradition of Morning Prayers—President Lawrence S. Bacow announced today that Stephanie Paulsell, Swartz professor of the practice of Christian studies, will serve as …
Clarifying the Rules of Protest
… In an email to the Harvard community on Friday afternoon, Interim President … Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Calling the guarantee of free speech “integral to the values of our University,” the email pointed to the specific …
Learning to Lose
… I’ll begin, straight off, with losing.” As far as opening remarks go, those words wouldn’t seem to augur well for the ensuing speech. But on Thursday night at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of talks on careers in the humanities, Sharmila …
Downsizing: Arsenal Buildings Sold
… athenahealth , a healthcare computer-services company, and the lead tenant in the Arsenal on the Charles office complex, announced on December 5 that it has agreed … square feet in the 11-building office complex, which comprises 760,000 square feet. Other tenants, who will remain …
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
… cool stuff?” asks University archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff with an expectant grin, reaching for a library cart loaded with treasures from the vault. In one folder, a plaintive letter from … White ’38. Harvard archivist since 2004, Sniffin-Marinoff grew up on Long Island and studied journalism at Boston …
Issue: January-February 2018
James Baldwin’s America, in Photos
… American photography shaped the civil-rights era, compelling the nation to see what it … “It was absolutely pivotal,” says Makeda Best , curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums. “It was how many … what segregation meant and how it was lived.” A selection of 31 photos from the museums’ collections are now on …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Carroll Lowenstein ’52
… Had the coronavirus not wiped out the Ivy League football … the Crimson leads 49-39-2, though the Quakers have won four of the last five, including last year’s 24-20 tussle in … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Breakthrough Diabetes Discovery Offers Potential Treatment
… 28, 2016: After multiple failed attempts to reproduce the results described below, Melton has retracted the … That could lead to human therapies. Xander University Professor Douglas Melton and postdoctoral fellow Peng Yi today … they have identified a hormone that induces reproduction of new insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, …
Rituals at Lowell
… Each Thursday afternoon , in the master’s residence at Lowell House, there is a tea, and … the crowd spills into the courtyard. “It’s also a kind of glue for the community,” says Eck. “The weekly teas are … without ritual,” Eck explains. “Ritual creates a sense of we. Here, we do have the advantage of these beautiful …
Issue: November-December 2013
Allston Agonistes
… have each sent her letters, outlining competing visions for the development of the University’s 127 acres of contiguous undeveloped … near-term is the permitting of Harvard’s proposed “enterprise research campus,” a largely commercial project of …