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Fancy Footwork
… The (biomechanical) mind at work. The late Thomas A. McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, was … the challenge. Not long afterward his colleagues were surprised to find one of his post-doctoral students running …
Issue: March-April 2022
Kids Turn New Pages
… Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive … them, express their ideas, and render judgments. Evidence of this sea change turns up in an unexpected and largely … dissertation examines various trends in the subject matter of children's nonfiction books between 1960 and 2000. Both …
Issue: March-April 2004
Yale Capitulates
… Universit y , which had maintained a (relatively) rosy view of its prospective endowment losses and resulting spending … 10 announced weaker than anticipated investment results for the fiscal year ended last June, and is therefore imposing … a decline in endowment value from $22.9 billion as of June 30, 2008, to about $17 billion (reflecting both …
"Poems Are Not Position Papers"
… Porter University Professor Helen Vendler grew up with her mother’s poetry books, which “stopped with the Victorians.” It … 22 could not write convincingly on the emotions and motives of someone who wrote until he was 73. Perhaps, I thought, …
Issue: January-February 2008
2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows
… The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine 's 2001-2002 … Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both juniors and residents of Leverett House--kept in writing trim during the summer. Arianne Cohen, of Delmar, New York, stayed in Cambridge to serve as …
Issue: September-October 2001
Biomedical Momentum
… The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing … year highlighted the enormous economic implications of developing biomedical technology; the role of university … E. Porter, a scholar of corporate strategy and of enterprise "clusters," convened a "Massachusetts Life Sciences …
Issue: November-December 2003
Radcliffe Consults Its Compass
… The nascent Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, whose … continued taking shape this February with the delivery of an advisory committee report. Last June, President Neil … committee chaired by Caroline Bynum, Ph.D. '69, a history professor at Columbia. Committee members included …
Margaret Marshall Named Radcliffe Medalist
… Institute Medalist is Margaret H. Marshall , Ed.M. ’69, the twenty-fourth chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (now … at Harvard Law School. (She is also an incorporator of Harvard Magazine Inc.) Marshall will give the keynote …
Works and Woods
… When you enter the Japanese house in the Boston Children’s Museum, says … feel like going down the rabbit hole. The color and clutter of the neighboring exhibits disappear. Aside from tatami … house appears empty. But Lippit, who is Weston associate professor in the humanities, sees more. In the timber frame, …
Issue: September-October 2008
A Victory for Bach (and Biggs)
… The great concert organist—and sometime radio-broadcast … European Studies). Craig R. Whitney '65 describes the first of many Biggs performances there in All the Stops: The … he donated to Harvard. Biggs's successors concertize on it often.) Biggs, illuminated by a shaft of light, in a poster …
Issue: September-October 2003
Medical Quad Times Two
… The ceremonial groundbreaking for Harvard Medical School's … Coming as it does about a century after the creation of the school's Boston campus, the huge new … feet overall, including a quarter-million square feet of laboratory space--continues a major extension of research …
Fertility and Destiny
… birthrates among highly educated women pose a challenge to the U.S. economy and may compound existing social problems, says David Ellwood, Black professor of political economy and dean of the Kennedy School … When Ellwood describes his findings to women, few are surprised. "I think they feel some real sense of frustration and …
Issue: March-April 2005
Rudenstine Will Step Down
… 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end of the next academic year. He reached the decision "after … past decade." In one sense, the news took Harvard by surprise: it came unheralded between the elaborately scripted …
'Cliffe Notes
… for Radcliffe by train on a September morning, family all gathered at the station. I promised my stepfather I wouldn't … That day, I became a Cliffie. It wasn't exactly a term of endearment. Even the sound of it, primitive and … for a little while in the garden next to Appian Way. The irises were in bloom; it was a perfect early summer day. I …
Issue: May-June 2002
Increasingly Electronic Libraries
… by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number of "e-resources" grew tenfold, and now include more than … these holdings ever more frequently, with individual uses of e-resources rising to nearly 5.2 million in 2005 alone. …
Issue: January-February 2007