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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 …
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For Santiago's Poor, Housing with Dignity
… Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in … Se venden helados (ice cream for sale). Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this tidy development of row houses, 170 families who once lived illegally have …
Issue: January-February 2009
History Detectives
… On December 26, 2004, one disaster triggered recollections of another. Utpal Sandesara ’08 was watching CNN coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami when his mother started crying. …
Issue: March-April 2012
Chapter & Verse: Who wrote...?
… “Unmeasur’d space is the Lord”s habitation” (March-April 2020). Gayle Sawtell … by Beethoven, composed in 1802 as the fourth in a cycle of six lieder (Opus 48) setting works by the German poet … four—inspired by “Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur” (The glory of God from nature), Gellert’s treatment of Psalm 19—is …
Issue: September-October 2021
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 …
Bow Market
… Bow Market, in Somerville’s Union Square, is very likely the only place on the planet where you can shop for vintage furs, tuck into platters of pierogis and poutine, catch a comedy act, and then chill out all night with pints of Exquisite Corpse. “It’s a vibrant marketplace that does …
Issue: November-December 2019
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 …
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
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 …
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… 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
Return to Harvard Day
… On April 16 , all College alumni and their spouses/partners and high-school-age offspring can visit the College, attend classes, and meet … alumni and their spouses/partners and high-school-age offspring can visit the College, attend classes, and meet …
Issue: March-April 2008
Final Club Fallout
… In the weeks since College dean Rakesh Khurana and President … on campus, both those opposed and those in favor of the policy—ranging from members of the clubs to alumni and the national media—have made …
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 …
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 …
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… Stephen J. Greenblatt Jon Chase/ Harvard News Office Cogan Professorship for Critic Praising his leadership in shaping "the direction of scholarship and criticism in literature …