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Scientific Investigator
… today, after postdoctoral fellowships and a stint in the biotechnology industry, she is a full professor with joint appointments in the departments of biopharmaceutical sciences and of microbiology and …
Soup Chef
… like, and smell like, even in ordinary daily cooking: in other words, as a food connoisseur,” says Teresa Chen ’64. … prepared by her nanny, who came from the Shunde region of China, the reputed birthplace of many renowned chefs. But Chen’s mother, in her own …
Issue: September-October 2009
Looking for Global-Health Answers
… on global healthcare delivery, an electrical injury with the potential to imperil his ability to practice surgery … knocked him unconscious. Heavy rains had flooded parts of his community in northeast Nigeria and damaged the local … deepen his understanding of how to address public-health crises. Moreover, he emphasized that relying on the network …
Janet E. Halley
… The dean of Stanford Law School alleges that it is located in paradise, and until recently Janet Halley was professor and Paradise faculty scholar for excellence in teaching and research there. But she left, willingly, to become professor at …
Farewell
… brilliant leader and administrator. Geyser University Professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences emeritus, former acting …
Issue: January-February 2023
Weathering Heights
… may not be on physical heights exactly, but it is on a part of Charlestown, Massachusetts, called Town Hill, a metaphoric eminence. Here, the Reverend Mr. Harvard lived, preached, and may be buried, … A plaque in the mall refers to Town Hill as "this low mound of earth," but notes that the hill is "the memorial of a …
Issue: July-August 2002
Sculptural Forms
… above a traffic circle next to a beachside promenade on the Atlantic Ocean in Porto, Portugal. The permanent public … hung. The membranous sculpture appears to float at the whim of the winds, constantly assuming different forms and colors … says Echelman. “My sculpture makes visible the choreography of the wind.” The materials used also reflect the site’s …
Issue: November-December 2005
Try, Try Again
… with its tackles and breakdowns and wild chasing sprints, Sofie Fella ’22 was a dancer and a soccer player. She liked both, but neither quite fit. Her ballet instructors kept nagging that her … Are you kidding me?’”). Then one day, during her first year of high school, her gym teachers suggested she try out for …
Issue: July-August 2019
Football 2022: Yale 19-Harvard 14
… E arly in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Harvard’s Jonah Lipel booted … Crimson led, 14-13, over Yale in the 138th playing of The Game. Now it was up to the Harvard defense to hold … into scoring territory? It could not. In a microcosm of the game at large, Grooms led Yale on a 75-yard march …
Darkness Visible
… at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, having hiked past the lawn concert of dirgeful folk music—an audience of couples propped against each other as though they had …
Issue: November-December 2018
Can Slime Molds Think?
… Slime mold doesn’t look like much , really. The bright yellow protist goes by many names: ninth-century … it “the blob.” To the scientists now making it a subject of serious study, it is Physarum polycephalum —a unicellular … large and sometimes contains thousands of nuclei. Although slime molds lack eyes, ears, and a …
Issue: November-December 2021
Gift Ideas from a Valentine's-Day Doubter
… website, headbutler.com , Kornbluth writes that he views the holiday as something "ginned up by merchants to get Americans to spend any discretionary dollars they haven't blown at Christmas." But if buy a gift you must, Kornbluth offers his picks for books, films, and music in his typical …
Christine Heenan to Depart
… January 31 and move to part-time, advisory status through the end of the academic year as she begins a transition into her new … will work with the Gates Foundation’s chief executive officer, Susan Desmond-Hellman (who was chancellor of the …
Chapter & Verse
… is death"--and where. Marian Barkley is looking for the source of the phrase "these (the?) half-forgotten, sunlit days." Gerald Hogan requests the text and author of a long poem or ballad, possibly Welsh or Scottish, …
Buzzing In
… It’s a sport where the mind is the only muscle worth working, where players … and where hand exercises have been prescribed as a means of improving buzzer speed. It’s called Quiz Bowl. And, big surprise, Harvard is good at it. Led by a cast of characters …
Issue: January-February 2009