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Harvard Layoffs Update, and More "Reshaping" to Come
… Harvard's layoffs of staff members begun last week prompted a labor protest … communications from deans to faculty and staff members at the affected schools reveal more about their financial situations; and details have emerged about …
Fighting Disease in Situ
… The disks at the center of Dr. David Mooney's current cancer research … very powerful. Grayish-brown circles with the texture of a dry, hardened sponge, they are dwarfed by a fingertip …
Issue: May-June 2009
Harvard@Home
… The University-wide on-line learning initiative, … Living Longer: Part III” presents the final segment of a two-day Alumni College event that examined the latest … In the new segment, Daniel Federman, Walter Distinguished Professor of medicine, moderates two panel discussions: one …
Issue: May-June 2005
Opening Commencement, “in Shadow and in Spring”
… playing fife and drums, graduating seniors and their well-wishers caught the last of the day’s sun as they headed into Sanders Theatre for the … times. Per tradition, this event marks the formal opening of Commencement, and their words seemed to preface this …
Zakaria Penalized for Plagiarism…and Reinstated
… affairs expert Fareed Zakaria, Ph.D. ’93, LL.D. ’12, the principal speaker at last June’s Commencement , was … from an article, “ Battleground America ,” by Kemper professor of American history Jill Lepore , that appeared in the April …
Dudley’s Square Deal
… bus garage on a weedy 8.5-acre lot in Roxbury, one of Boston’s poorest neighborhoods, is slated to be demolished. Then Bartlett Yard will become Bartlett Place . Plans for … rates to cover the returns as well its own costs. The enterprise requires a precise balancing of monetary interests in …
Issue: January-February 2014
Mental Health through a New Lens
… In Ghana, a country with a population of 24 million, the number of psychiatrists can be counted on one hand. This situation, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Ginkgo and Memory
… High on an upper bookshelf in Peter Del Tredici’s office sits a faded box of organic breakfast cereal called GinkgOs. In large letters, it proclaims: “For Sharp Thinking.” The millions who now take Ginkgo biloba products for better …
Senator Brown Chides Harvard on ROTC
… In recent days, Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has taken Harvard President Drew Faust to task for not welcoming ROTC programs onto the Harvard campus. (Harvard undergraduates who wish to … priorities "upside down." Brown contrasted Harvard's policy of not hosting an ROTC program with Faust's advocacy of the …
Vikram Patel
… remember very clearly getting into catering school,” says the new chair of the department of global health and social medicine. But a bent for …
Issue: November-December 2023
Chapter & Verse
… Fred Wegener seeks sources for "more given to the arts than to warfare" and "tremors sent below by breezes striking the higher sails," and identification of the poem alluded to in this passage: "that avenging … he said it was delicious." Edward Levin asks the source of "You may want a span of horses for plowin' and all the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Radcliffe Fellows for 2014-2015 Announced
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which celebrates … Harvard faculty members, as detailed below with the titles of their projects. Ann Blair, Lea professor of history , who studies the cultural and …
Galbraith on Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Greenspan (and Galbraith)
… James K. Galbraith ’74 has been in the news a lot lately. Galbraith—who teaches economics, among other subjects, at the University of Texas's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs—is part of the cover story for this …
Harvard Files for Permanent Relief from Trump Administration’s Funding Cuts
… to rule in its favor in its lawsuit seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s freeze and termination of billions of dollars in federal research funding. In a 62-page court …
"If you don't move forward-you begin to move backward"
… In a speech at Harvard on December 4, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its … world leaders to place nuclear disarmament at the top of their agendas. Because a key weapons treaty is set to … or extending it have not begun, “The responsibility of the current two presidents is very great,” Gorbachev said …