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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
First-Generation Challenges
… Luis Ubiñas ’85, M.B.A. ’89, grew up in the South Bronx during the 1970s. His father had died young, … resembled bombed-out Dresden: buildings burned amid piles of rubble and garbage. Poverty and drugs were rampant. Most … moment,” Ubiñas reports, “and hope that the accumulation of those successes leads to something good later.” An …
Issue: September-October 2012
Debating Sharia Law, Digitally
… A simple Google search for the word “sharia” illustrates the magnitude of the gap Harvard Law School (HLS) professor Intisar A. Rabb wants to fill. Up top, there’s a …
Issue: May-June 2015
Alyssa Goodman
… deep sea to outer space. Last year, she was appointed professor of astronomy, becoming the second female full professor in that department—and the … the preconditions for star formation, a phenomenon that arises in cores within molecular clouds; gravity, magnetic …
Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground
… Jealous of elementary-school classmates who spoke foreign languages, Robinson professor of mathematics Lauren Williams found another way to communicate: …
Issue: January-February 2022
Zelenskyy Addresses American Universities
… Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed leaders of American research universities Monday during an online question-and-answer session hosted by the Association of American Universities, of which Harvard is a member. The …
Engineering Bioengineering
… As Harvard pursues a broad program of bioengineering research and teaching, one element—based … deciphering life forms and processes, and making novel uses of the discoveries—has made a major advance. On October 7, the …
Issue: January-February 2009
Brevia
… Arts and Sciences Leader Claudine Gay (above) became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on August 15, succeeding Michael …
Issue: September-October 2018
Harmonic Progression
… There are so many places to begin with composer Robert Kyr. Like here: “I grew up in a family where the scars of war were very much with us,” he says. His father had … And his mother, working for the Red Cross, had been one of the first to see the death camps after they were …
Issue: March-April 2017
Study Finds “Cultural Gap” between Harvard Athletics and Academics
… A study of the Harvard Department of Athletics, released today, highlighted a “cultural and … athletics and academics at Harvard. Commissioned in the fall of 2019 by Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of …
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
Forgive, but Don’t Forget
… The first person President Donald Trump pardoned, in August … The month before, a federal judge had found Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt, which carried a jail sentence of up to six months, for “flagrant disregard” of a court …
Issue: November-December 2019
Bob Slate Stationer To Reopen
… In March of this year, brothers Justin and Mallory Slate closed what was then the … opened the store in the 1930s to supply the paper needs of Cambridge residents and Harvard students and faculty. …
Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
… her early years as a creator in “Minimalism and Me” at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Fittingly, the show is an unusual … gives a pre-performance talk, then Tharp takes the stage to offer her own recollections, interspersed with photographs …
Issue: November-December 2018
Scrums, Rucks, Mauls
… minutes, in two 40-minute halves), you may be familiar with the scrum , a fun word to say, and, for the uninitiated, a … opposing team, all the while attempting to gain control of the ball (a chunkier, more ovoid version of a football) … rugby team at the U.S. Naval Academy. “But you’d be surprised—there’s also tremendous technique involved. At Navy, …
Issue: September-October 2013