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Jefferson's Conundrum
… On Christmas Day, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, then president of both the United States of America and the American Philosophical Society, received …
Issue: July-August 2009
Studying a Gut Reaction
… our bodies for free. More than a trillion bacteria live in the human gut and chemically alter the molecules people … Koppel, Ph.D. ’18, and Vayu Rekdal, A.M ’17, reveal some of the beneficial and dangerous chemical reactions caused by … a Science review published today—“Chemical transformation of xenobiotics by the human gut microbiota.” Their research …
Harvard ROTC Commissions Four Officers
… In the year the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps returned to the University campus, four new officers from Harvard joined the armed forces of the United …
Open Book: Discerning a Blink
… Tracy K. Smith ’94 —winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Life on Mars , her third poetry collection, and professor of creative writing at Princeton—has now crafted a …
Issue: March-April 2015
"Open to Difference"
… Toba Spitzer A few generations ago, no matter how strong their callings, Toba Spitzer ’86, Jennifer (Kirsch) Flatté … Sally Priesand, finally ordained. (Today nearly one-third of the rabbis working in the United States are female.) A closer look at these alumnae and their perspectives offers insight into just how diverse and complex their …
Issue: September-October 2008
Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "Iraq"
… by John Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former Director of Central Intelligence … Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Orator. Let me begin by saluting the new members of Phi Beta Kappa. Achievement in …
Tweeting Her Way to Comic Heights
… “I just shot a pilot! Also, I filmed a TV show!” The tweets of Megan Amram ’10 aren’t exactly sunny, but her specific, macabre type of funny has caught the eye of Hollywood, as well as her …
North Carolina Firm Buys Brattle Street Buildings
… real-estate investment-management firm Asana Partners are the newest property owners in Harvard Square. This summer, … Gourmet Shoppe and Black Ink. The $108-million sale is part of a much broader shift in Harvard Square 's identity. Asana is not the only out-of-town voice playing a key role in the Square’s evolution …
Chocolate à la Vietnamese
… for Susan Lieu ’07 and her older sister, Wendy, founders of Sôcôla Chocolatier. ( Sôcôla, from the French chocolat , means “chocolate” in Vietnamese.) They … To Me Guava and Notorious H.O.G. (a play on the stage name of the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G.)--are tantalizing …
Issue: November-December 2010
Sharing Stories
… photographs,” explains Leslie Tuttle ’72. “You engage, and the photograph should show something of your relationship to the people in it.” A social … “and see the world from a different perspective.” She was offered a job documenting agricultural projects in rural …
Issue: May-June 2016
Strategically Speaking
… July 11 , Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee wrote to the Harvard community, soliciting advice about the qualities … but dismaying, news: reversing earlier polls, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now think … embracing UCSF, Berkeley, large local biotechnology enterprises, and the many area data scientists), can Harvard, with …
Issue: November-December 2017
“Living Underwater”: Harvard’s Inaugural Black Commencement
… The Black Graduate Student Alliance held its inaugural Black … four student orators, each reflecting a different dimension of the black student experience. Near the end of the … award, not listed on the program, was presented by surprise to the master of ceremonies, Lisa Coleman, the …
Cambridge 02138
… Contemporary Cuba Thank you for the customarily thoughtful piece by Jorge Domínguez on … Cuban economy is to increase agricultural production. One of the most fertile countries on the planet now imports … undermining the dominance of the state in other enterprises? Until that puzzle is solved, the pollo in your arroz …
Issue: September-October 2009
Investing in Learning and Teaching
… $40 million to encourage pedagogical innovation and strengthen learning and teaching throughout the University. Their gift focuses attention on one of the institution’s chief academic missions and illustrates the scale of the philanthropy the University aims to muster as it …
Issue: January-February 2012
Undergraduate Architectural Studies Track Begins in Fall
… this fall, for the first time, undergraduates inspired by I.M. Pei , … will have a chance to study at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), and possibly start earning graduate credit as early as their senior year. Harvard’s department of history of art and architecture and the GSD have …