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Dinosaur Babies
… : Dinosaur Eggs and Babies , a new hands-on exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum, brings the prehistoric … creatures closer to life. Visitors get to see a variety of fossilized dinosaur eggs and nests collected from across … bowling-ball-sized egg from Argentina, a cluster of ornithopod eggs laid from China, and, also from China, …
Issue: May-June 2024
"I'll Never Get Over What Happened to My Son"
… About halfway through Monday evening’s panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School, Lezley McSpadden announced that … son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a white police officer. Brown was black and unarmed, and his death ignited … seemed surer; the campaign, she said, would be part of her larger advocacy for laws and policies to protect …
A Nearly Normal First-Year Move-In
… After a hunkered-down year, campus came to life today with the arrival of first-year students. Along with them came minivans with out-of-state license plates, family members lugging suitcases in …
Classical Studies and Today’s Middle East
… Wedged between an economic Scylla that privileges the study of science and a Charybdis where history before … Rome, and their neighbors offer guidance on current crises … 1508 … 1513 … Classical Studies and Today’s Middle …
Place-Making with Plastic Tubes
… To the passing observer , Autumn (...Nothing Personal) is merely a cluster of tall plastic yellow and orange tubes mounted on simple wooden benches in the middle of Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre. Artist Teresita Fern á …
CS50’s Expanding Global Reach
… During the first lecture of “Introduction to Computer Science I,” best known as CS50, McKay professor of the practice of computer science David Malan …
Issue: May-June 2016
Harvard Divinity School Launches Capital Campaign
… The Harvard Divinity School may be one of the smallest … building, 103-year-old Andover Hall; increase the number of endowed chairs; boost financial-aid packages; and …
Good Fat in a White Hat
… Palmitoleate —an unconventional fat discovered in 2008 at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)—prevents cardiovascular disease when … fellow at HSPH from 2004 to 2010; she is now an assistant professor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She and her …
$10 Million for a More Inclusive Faculty
… The Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, set up by … report this morning, with a broad, University-wide set of recommendations to ensure that Harvard “integrate[s] all members of the University into academic, professional, and social …
Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces
… The music of Roomful of Teeth , the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble who performed at Dumbarton …
Anthologizing Yourself
… After squeezing nearly 1,000 years of creativity into the Norton Anthology of Poetry , Mary Jo Salter ’76 began … students to her: “It seems like we’re all in this enterprise together, trying to keep poetry alive.” Not that it’s …
Issue: July-August 2008
Talking About War—During a War on Osama bin Laden
… her Jefferson Lecture, "Telling War Stories," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities , Monday evening … impose an articulable structure on the ineffable experience of war, Faust argued, we lend it a significance and even a … it a teleology. This is why it can provide the satisfaction of meaning to its participants; this too is why it offers …
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
… With the extensive collection of children’s books donated by … renovated Houghton Library could have opened an exhibit of the genre’s “greatest hits.” Among other treasures, …
Ginsburg Discusses Justice and Advocacy at Radcliffe Day Celebration
… When associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. … at Harvard Law School in the mid 1950s, she was one of just nine women in her class. Only a handful of women had …
Medical Ethics Revisited
… economic stake in company-sponsored research conducted in their laboratories. The issue, under study by a committee … the June 1 debate. The school’s “Policy on Conflicts of Interest and Commitment” permits only minor exceptions to … being studied, or may receive consulting fees or honoraria of up to $10,000 annually from such companies. Those limits, …