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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 …
Twenty-eighth, and First
… administrator—Drew Gilpin Faust forcefully took possession of her Harvard presidency during inaugural celebrations and … 12. She did so in striking language and imagery, telling the crowd in Tercentenary Theatre—their spirits unchilled by … hill.” Crucially, then as now, Winthrop defined this enterprise as “work we have undertaken,” the success of which …
Issue: November-December 2007
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
Caroline Engelmayer’s 2020/2021 Address: Iter Perpetuum
… Praeses Bacow, decani notissimi, professores doctissimi, familiae honoratissimae, hospites … omnes. mihi magno honori est apud vos in hoc foro, quod Theatrum Tercentenarium appellamus, verba proferre etiamsi in lingua (eheu) plurimis obscura. …
The Happy Warrior Redux
… At a time when the nation is riven and familiar political categories have … vice president Hubert H. Humphrey and, yes, even his brand of liberalism, are enjoying a moment. Into the Bright … path to the 1948 Democratic Convention, where his advocacy of civil rights prompted the Dixiecrat walk-out (and …
Issue: March-April 2024
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 …
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
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
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, …