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Building Bridges in Allston
… As ironworkers assembled the frame of the University’s science and engineering … “the set of leaders the world looks to” in technology enterprises. Read an in-depth account of the degree, its …
Issue: September-October 2017
Commencement Confetti
… after me," Class Day speaker Quincy Delight Jones Jr. told the audience of seniors and their families, who were standing and holding … for the goosebumps," he said. [caption] Rashida Jones '97, of Eliot House and Los Angeles, flanked by her parents, …
Ethics and Human Cells
… been heavily involved in promoting regulatory oversight” of the use of human embryonic stem cells in research, says Insoo Hyun, …
Issue: January-February 2024
Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
… Put a fleck of paint under a microscope, and it tells a story. “Portrait of a Woman,” an Egyptian funerary portrait from the second century C.E., began with a piece of wood from a …
Issue: November-December 2022
Boston’s Cycleboat Cruises
… Sipping their canned tequila cocktails, two young women who’d hopped … with a smile, about 10 minutes into the 90-minute tour of Boston’s inner harbor. The refreshing trip offers a novel perspective on the city and its landmarks. …
Issue: July-August 2021
President Bacow's Commencement Remarks
… As prepared for delivery May 25, 2023 I suspect many of you are sitting here today, as newly minted Harvard graduates, wondering what the future holds for you. I can relate to that. This is my … way through life—that you will have similarly pleasant surprises. And now, to all of those who helped me along the …
A Chaucer Tale
… Yorker newsbreak (those column-ending items harvested from other media) captured this community’s braininess by relating one side of a telephone conversation overheard in the Radcliffe registrar’s office: “No, that’s ‘D,’ as in Dostoevsky.” Plus ça change …
Issue: May-June 2018
Alan M. Garber Appointed Provost
… M. Garber ’76, Ph.D. ’82 (M.D. Stanford, ’83), now Kaiser professor and professor of medicine and economics at Stanford, … provost effective September 1. President Drew Faust made the announcement today . Garber succeeds Steven E. Hyman, … arts —released, unfortunately, as economic and financial crises arose in late 2008—is full of “compelling” ideas, he …
Rounding into Form
… On New Year’s Eve , the Harvard women’s basketball team beat Stony Brook 60-53. … serious problems. Among them: her team “was not fluid offensively,” she said, and her players’ confidence was … basketball head coaching position. According to Catherine Crisera ’96, who is spearheading the effort with former …
Thinking Straight
… Does rational reasoning count for anything these days? The evidence is discouraging, but as Johnstone Family professor of psychology Steven Pinker argues, the answer had better be …
Issue: January-February 2022
An Auspicious View
… The effect takes a moment to sink in: a double-sided folding … and azurite blue. On one side, the instantly recognizable profile of Mount Fuji, with its long, snow-covered slopes sweeping …
Issue: November-December 2020
Dinosaur Babies
… : Dinosaur Eggs and Babies , a new hands-on exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum, brings the prehistoric … creatures closer to life. Visitors get to see a variety of fossilized dinosaur eggs and nests collected from across … bowling-ball-sized egg from Argentina, a cluster of ornithopod eggs laid from China, and, also from China, …
Issue: May-June 2024
Roxanne Guenette
… “One of the big questions of science is trying to understand how our universe works,” … is 25 percent of matter currently unknown? We know it’s there, but don’t know what it is.” That she pursues such …
Issue: March-April 2021
History-Making Astronaut
… lived out nearly every child’s fantasy when she soared aloft aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery in early July, making history as only the second African-American woman to venture into space. The … Massachusetts, native did graduate work at the University of Texas and was selected for NASA’s astronaut class of …
Issue: September-October 2006
Theater and “Treehouse” in Allston
… arts center at 175 North Harvard St. that will house the American Repertory Theater, currently operating in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-owned Loeb Drama Center at 60 Brattle … that will mark one entrance to the as-yet unbuilt enterprise research campus (ERC). The performance center will join …
Issue: March-April 2023