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Reopening the Doors to College
… Speaking to alumni at Commencement exercises at the conclusion of her first year in office last June, Harvard President Drew Faust joined her …
Theda Skocpol , Suzanne Mettler
Issue: March-April 2009
Off the Shelf
… Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, by Peter Stansky, Ph.D. '61 … had made a fortune in India from the opium trade, "was one of the best-known and most glamorous figures in Britain," …
Issue: September-October 2003
"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"
… one knew we had this document,” says Leslie Morris, curator of the Houghton Library’s T.S. Eliot collection, describing the … to the current librarians at Princeton, who were surprised to hear about it when Morris called them to coordinate …
The Psyche on Automatic
… Though snap judgments get no respect, they are not so much a bad habit as a fact of life. Our first impressions register far too quickly for … and hormones. This work may help clarify how men and women rise to the top--or fall by the wayside--in school and at …
Issue: November-December 2010
Expert Opinion: Avian Flu Experiments Pose Public Health Risk
… avian flu strains more transmissible among mammals put the public’s health at unnecessary risk, and therefore raise ethical concerns, write Harvard professor of epidemiology Marc Lipsitch and Yale professor Alison …
Of Ants and Earth
… emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997, Wilson—the father of sociobiology and biophilia, the most acute … it, too, fell silent. "Completing the Linnaean Enterprise" How, then, to proceed? For Wilson, coming to terms …
Issue: March-April 2003
Newspaper Offers Details of Hauser Lab Investigation
… According to an August 19 report by the Chronicle of Higher Education , Harvard’s investigation of professor of psychology Marc Hauser’s lab (and see an …
A Century of Commerce
… (HBS) is throwing a year-long centennial celebration. The anniversary itself falls on April 8, the date in 1908 … join in HBS-style case-method discussions on the future of the school, based on a new case study being prepared for … speakers include Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, chairman of Microsoft Corporation and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda …
Issue: March-April 2008
A Language of Behavior?
… a darkened lab at Harvard Medical School, a mouse explores the bottom of a black bucket. Nosing forward, it turns to the right, … what the animal will do next. Scientists led by associate professor of neurobiology Sandeep Datta have developed …
Issue: November-December 2018
Rereading the Renaissance
… The only thing most teachers and students of the humanities … diplomacy. Naturally, as Hankins writes in an essay on “The Rise and Fall of Neo-Latin,” “if an author hoped for a fame …
Issue: March-April 2006
Flu Is a Matter of Security, Frenk Says
… The word “security” brings to mind topics such as terrorism, … and other contagious diseases. But influenza is an issue of national security, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) dean Julio Frenk said today in a …
Demolish the Food Pyramid
… In the wild , animals instinctively find and consume the foods … to maximize revenue, not health. The result is a plague of nutrition-related illness: obesity, diabetes, heart … information," says Walter C. Willett, M.D., D.P.H. '80, professor of medicine and Stare professor of epidemiology and …
Issue: November-December 2001
Raising the Bar
… width:407] WATCH A VIDEO of NCAA pole vaulter Nico Weiler, profiled in the May-June 2013 issue , discussing the skills needed to …
The Fighting Pencil
… still a tongue-twister, but on closer inspection, it’s less of an oxymoron than you might think. After Stalin’s death in 1953, the USSR took stock of itself. Soviet bureaucracy and its many abuses had …
Issue: March-April 2022
Building a New Information Civilization
… in ways unimaginable just a few years ago—through the large-scale collection of data from wireless devices they keep close. “These are … the stark difference in national responses to the rise of an information civilization—a world in which …