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Detecting Breast Cancer Everywhere
… Across the world , breast cancer takes a devastating toll on women. … Globally, breast cancer is by far the most common form of cancer in women, but the majority who die from the … countries to thousands in the United States. CytoPAN machines, which cost about $3,500 apiece, require less …
Issue: November-December 2020
Allston Ambitions
… anticipated construction and renovations through 2034. The University owns approximately 358 acres of land in Allston, but the institutional master plan (IMP) … facilities—not the privately developed commercial enterprise research campus and other projects being built on land …
Issue: March-April 2025
Nicco Mele
… Nicco Mele owes a lot to the Internet. The new director of the Kennedy School’s … Center will play a critical role in preventing the rise of fake news, he claims, by helping audiences become …
Issue: November-December 2017
A Brain from a Blue Cooler Box
… when I hear that physicists in Geneva flashed beams of particles round a town-wide circle, smashed them together, and found God. It isn’t God. What they … hadron colliders, they have statistics and sometimes MRI machines. Thinking about thinking is troublesome. It takes …
Issue: May-June 2018
The Windmill Movie
… The late filmmaker Richard Rogers '67, Ed.M. '70, who died … His documentary films range from Quarry (1970), a slice-of-life look at youths diving, swimming, and lounging around …
Issue: May-June 2009
The Other Commons: David A. Moss
… An interview with David A. Moss , McLean professor of business administration and founder of the Tobin Project . Read the complete article, “Can America … It was enormously controversial. Ultimately, though, the rise of public education constituted a powerful competitive …
Issue: September-October 2012
“Ambitious of Doing the World Some Good”
… One of the more interesting observations in Mapping the Future , an … inside journalism spend a lot of time worrying about crises inside journalism, just as lawyers spend time worrying about crises inside their profession. These anxieties, spilling …
Catcher on the Fly
… The game's turning point— and perhaps the play that … score tied 14-14, Crimson quarterback Neil Rose '02 ('03) lofted a pass 30 yards in the air to wide receiver Carl … back Stephen Faulk charged across at him. "I caught him out of the corner of my eye," Morris says. "I thought, just …
Issue: September-October 2002
In Africa, Food vs. Climate?
… known that Africa is a major contributor to rising levels of atmospheric methane, the primary culprit has been a mystery: emissions from the … for the total measured by planes and satellites. This lack of clarity has complicated efforts to reduce emissions of …
Issue: January-February 2025
Dante the Disruptor
… Defenders have attitude, and their mind-set differs sharply from that of players who line up on the other side of the ball. Call it the outlook of a stopper. "You have to …
Issue: September-October 2003
The "New Normal"
… reversals, President Drew Faust delivered an “opening-of-year” address in Sanders Theatre on September 24, in lieu of the e-mail messages sent … declined in fiscal year 2009; that current-use giving had risen, but that gift income overall, as reported, had …
Issue: November-December 2009
Baccalaureate 2013: A Life of “Running Toward...”
… “I wish for you …,” President Drew Faust told the graduating class of 2013 in her May 28 Baccalaureate address, “lives of running toward ”—a theme with resonances of both a …
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 …
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 …
A Slowing China
… Central bankers around the world have been criticized for not raising their … rates in lockstep with the United States, but Boas professor of international economics Kenneth Rogoff points out … place. Although “we’re not going to start producing washing machines in the U.S. overnight,” notes Rogoff, “seasoned …
Issue: November-December 2022