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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
University People
… Development Leader to Depart With the Harvard Campaign headed for a record finish as of June 30, the same day Drew Faust’s presidency concludes, … president for alumni affairs and development at the end of 2018—time enough to wind up the fundraising drive, thank …
Issue: March-April 2018
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. …
An Election Post-Mortem
… The Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics teemed with bodies far in advance of last night’s much-anticipated post-election panel … in the Clinton campaign’s strategy? Mook attributed her surprise loss almost entirely to the letter, released by FBI …
Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico
… in maternal health. Four months later, when she left the region, she had witnessed a home birth. “It was a very … and when you actually see it in real life.” Amanuel was one of the first two Harvard undergraduates who spent their spring semester in rural southern Mexico as part of the Global Health Equity Option (GHEO) Scholars program, …
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 …
Genetic Protections
… Diabetes does not have a simple, single genetic basis in the Mendelian sense (tall plants or short, blue eyes or … bring it about. New tools are enabling the systematic study of the genes that underlie the disease, and producing … later in life, in both humans and mice. Patti was surprised to find that the offspring of the low-birthweight …
Issue: November-December 2008
Making Voters Care About Climate Change
… climate change at Harvard Extension School and told his father, “Dad, you have to do something about this.” The … ecosystem impacts that will be locked in for thousands of years —from Hooper professor of geology Daniel Schrag. The prospect had shocked …
“Yankee” Rhymes with “Bernanke”
… a decade-long hiatus, Roger Angell '42 has resumed writing the amusing year-in-review poem, " Greetings, Friends! " for The New Yorker . In a charming profile , New York Times reporter Dwight Garner recalls … The Nation . "Mr. Trillin called Mr. Angell's annual series of rhymes 'a nice tradition.' He added: 'It was very shrewd …
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
Birds in Hand
… and birds. Birds are particularly tricky work. Rendering feathers demands finesse. No pigment yet captures true … up his stool, art supplies, and binoculars beside a swath of wetlands, and was lucky enough to watch a Virginia rail … to help protect wild birds. “Museum visitors have been surprised to see shorebird decoys,” Montague says, “because it’s …
Issue: May-June 2017
Mnemonic Masks
… ago , Phillip Charette, M.Ed. '94, spent his days in an office, handling visa applications and other logistical concerns for international students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now he makes his living as an artist, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Taming Turbulence
… Waft the scent of cinnamon, wintergreen, or eucalyptus into the tropical air of Central and South America and beautifully colored bees in …
Issue: November-December 2009
Creative Gifts
… Each year, organizers of the Harvard Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale hide the potters’ wheels and buckets of clay to hang pine boughs and stock up on apple cider, …
Issue: November-December 2018
New Corporation member
… Patricia A. King, J.D. ’69 was elected to the seven-member Harvard Corporation on December 4, … Conrad K. Harper, J.D. ’65, who resigned last July. The University news release is posted here. [Update: See “ The Corporation, Completed ,” from our January-February 2006 …