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Harvard Ph.D. Thomas A. Steitz Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, …
Introversion Unbound
… A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More … oriented psychologists have detected characteristic signs of temperament in infancy. Even so, personality psychologist … and a former Radcliffe Institute fellow, is "wary of spurious genetic postulations and claims of a genetic …
Issue: July-August 2003
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 …
Real Fashion Police
… On Oscar night , the exquisite gowns on movie stars like Charlize Theron, … Awards themselves: red-carpet commentators intone the names of the designers who have clothed the parading beauties. And … amazing speed, American fashion pirates will have knock-off copies of these dresses in the stores, available at …
Issue: July-August 2010
Christopher Walsh Wins Welch Award in Chemistry
… Christopher T. Walsh , Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, has been named co-winner of the Welch Award , one of the most prestigious honors for …
A Call for Corporation Nominations
… In the wake of the Harvard Corporation’s early December decision to … with the Corporation’s earlier steps to include members of the Board of Overseers in its review of its governance …
New Poll Shows Warren in Tight Race for Senate Seat
… and expert on consumer bankruptcy Elizabeth Warren is the overwhelming frontrunner for the Democratic nomination … the Boston Globe . The UMass-Lowell/Boston Herald poll of 1,005 registered voters showed the Gottlieb professor of law —who chaired the congressional oversight …
Tutors: Good, and Cheap
… our sixteenth quarter-century, let’s spend a small fraction of that amount improving the places where so much real learning happens: the 12 … Houses. By far the finest and most memorable part of my academic life at Harvard was my three years as a …
Issue: September-October 2011
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
Hats Off
… Hats Off The HAA Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding volunteer service to the University through alumni activities. These six … were scheduled to be honored during the HAA Board of Directors' fall meeting in Cambridge. Weston J. "Webb" …
Issue: November-December 2004
Dominica’s “Bouyon” Star
… On a Tuesday night in February, thousands of revelers paraded through Roseau, the capital of the Caribbean island of Dominica. Some wore the …
Issue: May-June 2024
News from Harvard@Home
… Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, offers several new programs for 2004. They include: *Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Crimson Take First Ivy WNIT Win
… All is not lost for Harvard basketball. As the men’s team fell to Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the women’s basketball team made their own history Thursday night by defeating Hofstra 73-71 at the Women's National Invitational Tournament …
Tortes in Memory
… outstretched to shake with passers-by." In her new book, The Window Shop: Safe Harbor for Refugees, 1939-1972 ( … under a new name until the mid 1990s.) In 1939 four wives of Harvard professors, with pooled resources of $65, opened … dirndls to give the place some European ambiance. The enterprise soon moved to larger quarters on Mount Auburn Street …
Issue: July-August 2007
Artificial Wants
… passers-by." Josiah Quincy, A.B. 1790, LL.D. 1824 , drafted the following advice to undergraduates in 1837 or '38, while he was president of Harvard. He may well have disseminated it, for advice on … attended with worse consequences, always troublesome—often injurious, sometimes fatal.... Illustration by Lynne …
Issue: November-December 2002