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Introducing: Ask a Harvard Professor
… Have you ever wondered whether marijuana is harmful to the brain? Or pondered what … great? These are among the questions we ask Harvard professors, eliciting the nuanced and thoughtful responses … devotion to a subject. But can you trust the testimony of an academic? Harvard Magazine’s new podcast, Ask a …
Thoroughly Eclectic
… name, which rhymes with “Lisa”) slips through an alley on the left side of Broadway’s century-old Belasco Theatre. She opens a … applied to Harvard on a lark, but once there, she was surprised and delighted to be surrounded by people who shared …
Issue: July-August 2008
Brevia
… Heads of Houses Lakshminarayanan “Maha” Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan Photograph courtesy of Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan … Chen have been appointed faculty deans of Dunster House; they succeed Roger Porter and the late Ann Porter (who died …
Issue: July-August 2017
Punching Judy
… in small groups, chatting quietly, loafers clicking against the brick sidewalk. Blue blazers and neckties flap in the … Harvard these days, with jeans and sweats the everyday mode of dress, shed only for House formals, it seems. But these undergraduates are off to formal dinners, in Boston and its environs, at the …
Home Sweet Home: Transform Your Space for Spring
… The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and it’s finally … Valerie Achorn, M.P.A. ’98, president and founder of Simplified Lives, adheres to the “magic of ten” rule: Tackle ten items at a time. Perhaps that means …
Issue: March-April 2019
New Masters Appointed for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses
… Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammonds today announced the appointment of new masters and co-masters for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather … respectively: Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor, and Stephanie Khurana Douglas Melton , a Faculty of …
Records, Rescued
… The rarest and most delicate artifacts in the Packard … shattered. But the format is also inherently unstable. The soft lacquer coating is prone to cracking or flaking off, warping, curling—separating from the rigid base …
Issue: July-August 2017
21,000 Hours
… Convocation ceremony in 2009—a formal public greeting of new freshmen by the president and deans, and the only occasion when the … year’s Convocation took place on Labor Day, one of the last scorching hot days of the summer. “We have …
About Athletics
… As in other realms —thousands of courses, hundreds of nonsports … the substantial athletic operation is a human enterprise, and so can find itself enmeshed in controversies. …
Issue: November-December 2019
Numbers Game
… Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum , debuting this coming fall …
"Smarter, Stronger, Kinder"
… The speeches were nice, but it was the Muppets everybody had … come to see. That’s why Sanders Theatre was packed to the roof Wednesday evening with excited listeners—all adults now, … In the late 1960s, Sesame Street co-founders Lloyd Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney, Ar.D. ’75, approached the …
Harvard Helps Local Small Businesses
… Campus Services sent an internal email to staff with news of how the unit is helping students—and the community at large— … isolation at the Harvard Square Hotel, wrote vice president of campus services Meredith Weenick. “In the early days, we …
Human-Family Reunions
… To the trained interpreter, the human genome is a record of the … imprint through natural selection; meanwhile, patterns of genetic similarity among different individuals hint at …
Issue: July-August 2014
Footnotes: Frank Roosevelt at Harvard
… This assessment appears in Geoffrey Ward's Before the Trumpet (Harper & Row, 1984), an invaluable source of material for this article. Other good accounts of …
Court Upholds Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Program
… Allison Burroughs , the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit arguing that Harvard College’s use of race in admissions discriminates against … reflected any discriminatory animus, or even an application of an Asian American who it contended should have or would …