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Chords of Revolution
… better than Armani, better than Ralph Lauren, better than these boring mass marketers,” says Ho, whose signature piece … His genre-busting music is an artful, arresting mix of African and Asian traditions peppered with iconic … Opera, which “tracks a 2,000-year-old female vampyre who rises to pop music stardom, hyped by a diabolical …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Civilizing Art
… In committing The Poetry of John Milton (Harvard, $39.95), an enormous new book of criticism, professor of English Gordon Teskey begins with …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Persistence of Place
… An October report in the New England Journal of Medicine, drily titled … levels of adverse health. That finding would hardly surprise Ford professor of the social sciences Robert J. Sampson …
Issue: January-February 2012
"A Hazard of Good Fortune"
… A few years ago, in this very theater, we began a major undertaking together, and we did … not to go forward at all. Ralph Waldo Emerson, class of 1821, once remarked that any great or substantial … President Conant reported that tuition still continued to rise rapidly, and that more and more students were applying …
“Fully Part of the Harvard Family”
… The new First Generation Harvard Shared Interest Group (SIG) is “the natural outcome of Harvard’s very laudable HFAI [ Harvard Financial Aid … households with incomes of $65,000 or less. (That group rises to 25 percent at the $80,000-income benchmark.) …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard’s Standoff: The International Students
… Why is the Trump administration trying to prevent Harvard from … Trump administration is using? On May 22, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was revoking … (SEVP) certification, effectively stripping the University of its ability to enroll international students. Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2025
At Home with Harvard: Our Most Popular Stories of 2020
… 2020 was a year none of us ever expected . I started working for Harvard Magazine as the digital content strategist in mid January and … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
A Year of “Good Progress”
… Assessing the academic year now drawing to a close, William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said today in one of his … banner. Click image to enlarge: Harvard engineering, on the rise Courtesy of SEAS Communications The recently announced …
From the Archives: The Case for Smaller Classes
… As students return to schools across the country, we look back to a description of one of the classic experiments in education: an attempt … works in education, a quarter-trillion-dollar-plus enterprise that vitally affects our children. In the case of …
Video: Clues in the Blood
… Metabolomics studies hundreds of metabolites found in the bloodstream, in an attempt to understand everything from … … Video: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics. … Video: Clues in the blood: scientists …
Thinking Outside the Pack
… Cigarettes , observes Robert N. Proctor, Ph.D. ’84 , “remain the world’s single largest preventable cause of death,” and following roughly 100 million tobacco-related … billion deaths in the twenty-first. The author, now professor of the history of science at Stanford, has written a …
Issue: July-August 2012
Off the Shelf
… as top god Wotan. Costumes for Rheingold were based on "the latest discoveries of prehistoric times." From the book First Nights at the … has not for years. A powerful narrative. Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Economic Effects of Mosquito- and Tick-Borne Illnesses
… The assault begins on the note of high c, an annoying whine … water, breathing through a tube at the surface. Larvae give rise to the pupal stage in 12 days. Two days more and a …
Issue: November-December 2001
Studying ChatGPT Like a Psychologist
… Ask GPT-4 , the most advanced model of ChatGPT, to decode a string of … of human minds offer a new way to make sense of intelligent machines. “Cognitive scientists have… a rich toolbox of …
Making the Case
… All professional schools face the same difficult challenge: how to prepare students for … "We learned that teaching is a collaborative enterprise, and that a culture of talking about teaching is …
Issue: September-October 2003