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… Athletics Angles Anent the letter in the March-April issue about football : should … banning this dangerous sport? There is compelling evidence of lasting—and potentially lethal … Bemis Jr., M.B.A. ’54 Santa Fe I was bemused, but not surprised, to see President Faust touting Harvard’s Center for …
Issue: May-June 2015
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 …
Fresh Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year will be Noah Pisner ’14 and … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Pisner, of Fairfax, Virginia, and Winthrop House, transferred to the College following a year at the University of Southern California, where he studied cinema and …
Issue: September-October 2013
Football 2022: Princeton 37-Harvard 10
… Harvard , last Friday night nearly 11,000 spectators at the Stadium as well as an ESPNU audience saw the Tigers … this bad a beatdown at home since they had been blasted out of Soldiers Field 52-17 by Princeton in 2017 in another … defense roamed the field and rarely gave the Harvard offense, particularly star senior running back Aidan …
Sea Sex
… Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the publisher advises, St. Martin’s Press will publish Sex … Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep, by marine biologist Marah J. Hardt ’00, of Boulder, Colorado. “Forget the Kama Sutra,” write the …
Issue: January-February 2016
Wanderers from Sirius
… Dogs do figure mightily in Underdog, the fourth collection of poems by Katrina Roberts ’87. In … “Cave Canem,” for example, a meditation on, and reimagining of, the volcanic denouement that doomed Pompeii, the …
Issue: January-February 2012
Quantity Time
… pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother. Initially, I was uncomfortable in my new role because … on children and house. I feared becoming a cardboard cutout of my former self. Gradually, however, I have become … not diapers. So it is with a little awkwardness and surprise that some graduates decide to stay home with their …
Issue: March-April 2003
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
“More Shots on Goal”
… on relatively simple, discrete tasks: classifying images of galaxies, for instance, or tracking birds in the backyard. But both research and industry are beginning … innovation,” a mindset that has prompted research enterprises from academia to industry to look beyond their …
Boston Approves Campus Services Move to Allston
… The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) voted unanimously … for planned development on the existing site, at the corner of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. The Travis … services (especially the vehicular component)—the target of much criticism from local residents who felt the …
“Good Trouble”
… In the five weeks since a gunman killed 17 people and injured … national gun-control campaign unseen in the aftermath of any other modern mass shooting. Six of them—Ryan Deitsch, Matt Deitsch, Emma González, David …
University People
… by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC Honor Roll Conant University Professor Danielle S. Allen has been awarded the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The prize, announced by the Librarian of …
Issue: September-October 2020
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
Numbers Game
… Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum , debuting this coming fall …
University People
… University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard … appellate advocate, he has presented dozens of cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, he was lead author of the …
Issue: September-October 2004