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Harvard Team Has Quiz Bowl Circuit Abuzz
… for nationals—and will be sending three four-person teams there, the most of any single school, today's Boston Globe informs …
Fast Start
… Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, … her transition briskly. Drawing on her experience as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in which …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard Faculty Teaching Honors
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 6, in … ritual, Dean Michael D. Smith conferred diverse honors on professors who have been recognized for outstanding teaching, … professor of Japanese art and culture ; and Greg Morrisett, Cutting professor of computer science . This year’s …
Cambridge 02138
… Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Re “ The Physics of the Familiar ” (by Jonathan Shaw, … David W. Harralson Hollywood, Calif. I was surprised that there was no mention of the concept of “CO 2 …
Issue: May-June 2008
Margaret Marshall to Rejoin Boston Firm and Law School
… Former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Margaret Marshall , … many shared values, including a deep respect for the rule of law and the important role it plays in the lives of …
New Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year are Madeleine Schwartz ’12 and Sarah Zhang ’11, who were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by nearly two dozen student applicants … by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother; the fellows, who join the editorial staff …
Issue: September-October 2010
Father-Son Venture
… In the 12 years that Tom Fields-Meyer ’84 spent writing … he consider writing about his own family. Only on the eve of his departure from People in 2007, when his editor approached him on the subject, did he think of writing that personal story. In fact, he had been taking …
Issue: March-April 2012
CS50 Comes to Yale
… we ready? Let’s do lights.” With those words from Yale professor Brian Scassellati, the room went dark, and the hundreds of students who’d swarmed through the aisles of the Yale Law …
Forum: Doing Less Harm
… T he United States has far higher rates of firearm death than any of the more than two dozen other high-income countries …
Issue: January-February 2020
T. Berry Brazelton to Receive Presidential Citizens Medal
… The White House has announced that clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus T. Berry Brazelton , saluted as “one …
Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"
… learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding assistant professor, he took the initiative, seeking out slightly older faculty friends … advice included pointers as simple as breaking his habit of talking toward the left side of the room more often than …
Issue: September-October 2001
Frenetic Fall
… The fall semester began with a lot of news, including … page 26); the annual endowment report (plus announcement of the investment managers’ new senior leadership—see “Close …
Issue: November-December 2014
Blake’s Whales
… exciting time to be a naturalist. Louis Agassiz, director of Harvard’s five-year-old Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), had embarked on a series of … patrons, and as one of Agassiz’s students and assistants, the young Blake, then in his twenties, began to draw and …
Enduring Duck
… This rare bird is a bronze ewer made in China in the Warring States period (481-221 B.C.), a time so called because the Zhou dynasty had lost control of the country, which had split into contending entities … supremacy. It lives in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, part of the University Art Museums, and arrived as an anonymous …
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