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… Our Towns I was pleasantly surprised to see that one place the Fallowses covered was my hometown and current place of residence, Sioux Falls (“Our Towns,” by Lincoln Caplan, …
Issue: July-August 2018
Staff Pick: A.R.T.’s WILD: A Musical Becoming
… Planning for a season of live performances, American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) has taken on the Anthropocene. WILD: A … January 2) is a fable centered on a struggling single mom offered a deal to lease land on her family farm to energy …
Issue: November-December 2021
President Drew Faust: "Still Harvard"
… “ We are on it ,” President Drew Faust said of the University’s financial situation during a July conversation in her office at Massachusetts Hall. And she said, with equal …
Issue: September-October 2009
Insider Activist
… Laura Wharton ’83 refused to sit in the back of the bus. One Sunday morning this past August, on … city’s gender-segregated bus lines. Even in the holiest of cities, the secular deserve rights, too—at least …
Issue: January-February 2010
Daniel S. Fisher
… likes to ask difficult questions and, although he is a theoretical physicist, his latest inquiries have led him to … in modern biology. For example: How does one make sense of the vast amount of data that the life sciences now generate? Modern …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harry R. Lewis Named Interim Engineering Dean [Updated]
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith today announced that Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and director of undergraduate … for computer science , will serve as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), …
Sunil Amrith, Kate Orff, and Damon Rich Awarded MacArthur Grants
… Sunil Amrith , Mehra Family professor of South Asian studies and professor of history, has been … awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (better known as the “genius grant”), a no-strings-attached award of $625,000 …
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
… Stephanopoulos was a second-year law student at Yale when the Supreme Court ruled—unsatisfactorily, he believed—on the … Congressional districts and left unresolved the question of whether the courts should have a say in political … gerrymandering. For Stephanopoulos, now Kirkland & Ellis professor of law, the case was a game-changer: election law, …
Issue: September-October 2021
Online Evolution
… HarvardX and other institutions continue to create new massive open online … at harvardx.harvard.edu/modules-courses). But with hundreds of offerings available on edX, Coursera, and emerging … rather than earlier-stage learners. This is less a surprise (given the course requirements) than a useful reminder …
Issue: September-October 2014
“Service Starts with Summer”
… history, he said, “Since Harvard’s founding in 1636, the people educated here have responded patriotically to the call to service.” In light of current, challenging circumstances—for society, and for the perception of universities’ role within it—he continued: We need to …
Faust and Khurana Condemn DACA Elimination
… In a message to the University community today, President Drew Faust condemned the announced elimination of Deferral for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama-era … least a few dozen Harvard students. “Today’s announcement of the elimination, in six months, of [DACA] represents a …
A Blood Test for PTSD?
… W hen soldiers returned from the Vietnam War with symptoms such as flashbacks, … in the head.” That test reflects nearly a decade’s study of PTSD by more than 75 researchers, including Frank Doyle, Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences and dean of the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Genomic Engineering Hits Its Mark
… and clinicians who seek to study, or even alter, the course of disease. In a lecture last week at Harvard … (HMS), J. Keith Joung ’87, M.D.-Ph.D. ’96, associate chief of pathology for research at Massachusetts General Hospital …
Humor, Too
… Commencement oratory and the conferring of degrees are not all spinach. Phoebe Lakin … ’18, the Latin Salutatorian, had the wit to draw upon one of the great Harvard graduation moments: J.K. Rowling’s …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Life's Study
… is a lifelong process. Whatever our past experience of formal schooling, many of us have learned how useful--and how revitalizing--further education can be. In the form of mid-career programs, …