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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
Brevia
… Appointments. Erika Lee has been appointed Bae Family professor of history, effective next July, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof … of history (but both will be on leave for a year from the date of their appointments)—the second and third …
Issue: September-October 2022
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
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
Why Is Cancer More Common in Men?
… to cancer than women; one in two men will develop some form of the disease in a lifetime, compared with one in three women. … such as cigarette smoking and factory work. Yet the ratio of men with cancer to women with cancer remained largely …
Issue: March-April 2017
Evelynn M. Hammonds
… earned a master's degree in physics from MIT, and then in 1980 began a five-year sojourn as a software engineer in the corporate world. She didn't like it. Evelynn Hammonds was setting up computer systems in offices and explaining to secretaries and executives that …
Issue: January-February 2003
Special Advertising Section: Harvard Authors' Bookshelf
… To advertise your book in the Harvard Authors' Bookshelf—Holiday Reading List , please … all Harvard Authors! Advertise your book in time for the holidays. … Special Advertising Section: Harvard …
Straight Lines and Odd Angles
… but once you draw a line, you know, it tends to have a mind of its own,” says painter Judith Seligson ’72. She’s standing in the living room of her Manhattan apartment, looking at an installation of …
Issue: November-December 2022
Bearing Witness to Terrorism
… on name tags, shuffled through metal detectors, and placed their phones in yellow manila envelopes, bracing themselves … the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shows roughly 10 percent of the approximately 1,200 Israeli deaths. Attendees watched … about their slaughter. The IDF did not include footage of rape or other sexual violence, the killing of babies or …
At 100, Widener Opens Its Arms Wider
… When Eleanor Elkins Widener witnessed the grand opening of a library that she funded to … by its open-stack system. One can encounter pleasant surprises and new fields of knowledge simply by aimlessly …
“This global, diverse, vibrant community”
… II ’06 still found time as an undergraduate to perfect the “Flying Death Necklace.” The stunt, performed in the … frankly,” he says, “our society has fallen into the trap of dehumanizing each other, and there’s this rampant … we are able to talk to one another as humans, regardless of background, experiences, and views.” Moore points to …
Issue: September-October 2023
Ideas Rain In
… Newton had already invented calculus and formulated his law of gravitational attraction. Throughout history, genius and madness have often dwelled together: think of Vincent Van Gogh, William James, M.D. 1869, …
Issue: May-June 2004
Three New University Professors
… The three of them around a table would make quite a dinner party: a … how crime, punishment, and inequality alter the course of people’s lives. All three—molecular biologist Catherine …
Think Tank for Aid Workers
… Eager to see how his medical training would translate into the context of a poor nation torn by civil war, VanRooyen concluded very … and malaria. During the next decade, he traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous and disaster-riven places: …
Issue: November-December 2007