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Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?
… At Harvard, there are research areas that can’t be investigated, … that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So say a group of Harvard professors, now more than 120 strong, who have formed a …
Litchfield’s Legal Eagles
… The bright young men who crammed into the one-room … by lawyer and pioneering educator Tapping Reeve, ultimately offered a rigorous 18-month course of study in place of the traditional English system of …
Issue: March-April 2023
Enterprise Research Campus Underway
… Tishman Speyer , the developer Harvard selected to build its Enterprise Research Campus in Allston, announced on June 16 that … $750 million in financing to build the first, 9-acre phase of the development project. In a statement, the company said …
George Sarrinikolaou
… George Sarrinikolaou was born in Athens on the cusp of Greece’s urbanization—a fulcrum in the … produced very little waste,” says the executive director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. …
Issue: March-April 2024
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
… Americans faster than advances in healthcare were saving them. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco, published November … gap by gender and identify the differences in causes of death. The researchers found that between 2019 and 2021, …
Brevia
… Presidential Search As the search for the successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow … were disclosed on August 25. Archon Fung, McCormack professor of citizenship and self-government and director of the Ash …
Issue: November-December 2022
Postseason’s End
… trailed Columbia with just over a minute remaining in the Great Eight round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), when … and launched a three. But the shot missed and bounced out of bounds, and moments later, the Lions won 77-71. The loss …
Harvard Sanctions Professor Roland Fryer Severely
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today notified Lee professor of economics and professor of education Roland G. Fryer Jr. and the economics department that Fryer has been placed on …
Post-COVID Learning Losses
… In education, the post-COVID “return to normal” has been anything but … the pressing educational gaps affecting children. Gale professor of education and economics Tom Kane, director of the … consequences for children,” Reardon said. “I wasn’t surprised, but I was just dismayed and struck by how large the …
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
… brief presentations on subjects from infrastructural aesthetics to aliens, seven Harvard Horizons scholars shared … The students had been selected in what Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Dean Emma Dench described as a … seven winners, who spoke this Tuesday, received ten weeks of presentation coaching as part of this opportunity to …
Impatience Is a Virtue
… next week. She knows that future obligations exist, but they generally remain an abstract concept housed in her … her recurring role as on-air co-host, appearing on millions of Japanese screens, riffing on current events. Minutes … led to a unique career. She is a touring violinist, author of three books, university lecturer, and a weekly television …
Issue: July-August 2023
Polishing off Plastic Pollution?
… “There’s a great future in plastics.” The iconic line, advice to a fresh-from-college ingenué played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film The Graduate , was intended for … The world’s economies generate roughly 400 million tons of plastic waste each year, and according to a 2022 report …
Issue: September-October 2023
Trading Finance for Flowers
… sales trader. It was, as parents say, a “good job,” and offered an enviable metropolitan lifestyle. Yet Lam felt something was wrong. “I was at the point in my life, working at my little cubicle trading desk,” she says, “sort of thinking about what else I wanted to do with my life—and …
Issue: May-June 2023
Medieval Disinformation?
… A digital reconstruction of thirteenth-century ceramic floor tiles, now on display at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, helps reframe ideas about …
Issue: March-April 2023
2022 HAA Award Winners
… Six alumni have received the Harvard Alumni Association’s HAA Awards for their … University: Janet Nezhad Band ’83, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’90, of New York City, a three-time recipient of the Albert H. Gordon ’23 Award for her commitment to the …
Issue: November-December 2022