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… Assault Rates Unchanged On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey estimating the prevalence of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct among its …
Issue: January-February 2020
Crimson in Beijing
… Harvard athletes have a long history of Olympic competition, beginning with the first modern games at Athens in 1896 (see “The … powerful United States women’s eight to victory, staving off a late surge by the Netherlands. In the men’s …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard’s Allston Science and Engineering Complex Approved
… The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has unanimously … Harvard’s plans for the $1-billion John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ (SEAS) science and … and the i-lab cluster, and adjacent to the emerging enterprise research campus , the complex will accommodate more …
How to Think Green
… Six “all-star environmental professors” spoke in rapid-fire fashion at “Harvard Thinks Green” on the afternoon of December 8, each giving a 10-minute presentation on …
Harvard and Boston
… Examining the relationships between universities and municipalities in the Boston metropolitan area, Ford professor of the social sciences Robert J. Sampson sees “a set of …
“Twenty Questions” with William Deresiewicz
… packed Paine Hall to watch William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial new book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, …
Harvard Medalists
… were publicly thanked by President Lawrence H. Summers for their exceptional service to the University during the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement. Guralnick Photograph by Jim Harrison … Photograph by Jim Harrison Walter C. Guralnick, D.M.D. ’41, of Boston— Pioneering professor and practitioner of …
Issue: July-August 2005
Snuggle Time
… Thursday afternoon, Primus’s small dog, Dixie, went to the Science Center Plaza, atop the Cambridge Street tunnel, to see what entertainment was on offer. After a year of construction jointly undertaken by Harvard and the City …
Issue: November-December 2013
E-mail Update
… During the April 2 disclosure that the e-mail accounts of a … times in connection with an Administrative Board review of students’ academic misconduct (see “ E-mail Imbroglio ,” …
Issue: July-August 2013
An Ancient Herbal Remedy
… The blue evergreen hydrangea’s history as a natural … era, information about the plant’s root (and about hundreds of other Chinese herbal remedies) first appeared as part of a written collection of oral traditions said to have …
Issue: May-June 2012
Harvard Poets, by Ear
… The clear, plainspoken voice of William Carlos Williams, … it should be heard: it’s very difficult sometimes to get it off the page….In other words, if it ain’t a pleasure, it …
New Fellows
… Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year will be Isabel Ruane ’14 and … Katherine Xue ’13. They were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by nearly two dozen student applicants … publication and harvardmagazine.com , and edit copy. Ruane, of Wilton, Connecticut, and Mather House, was a member of …
Issue: September-October 2011
"A Unique Experience"
… Harvard didn’t share my enthusiasm. When I informed one of my professors that I planned to study modern British literature, he assured me I’d love the nineteenth century; that was as modern as Harvard got in …
Issue: May-June 2006
Making a MOOC
… A well-known public-health anecdote, the birth-weight paradox, is often used to illustrate how cause and effect can become … “is that maternal smoking is associated with a lower risk of mortality among infants who had a low birth weight.” In …
Issue: September-October 2017
Read Better, Sleep More
… Last fall , I met a lot of confused first-years. I worked as a peer tutor at the College's Writing Center, helping undergraduates improve … the writer's carefully embedded images. I wasn't surprised; just about all first-years quickly realize that Expos …