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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
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 …
Brevia
… Heading home James E. Ryan , who left the University of Virginia’s law school to become dean of … readies its plan for the development of the 36-acre “enterprise research campus” in Allston. Read more at …
Issue: November-December 2017
University People
… Sisler Photograph by Stu Rosner William P. Sisler, director of Harvard University Press since 1990, will retire at the end of the academic year. His tenure saw the publication of …
Issue: March-April 2017
"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 …
A Better Way to Amputate
… Today’s state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs are scientific marvels, designed … neural and muscular signals, to give users the possibility of greater function and control. But amputation techniques …
Issue: September-October 2017
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
New Digs
… Claudine Gay settles in at Massachusetts Hall—just across the Old Yard from her former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean’s office in University Hall—on July 5, the first …
Issue: September-October 2023
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 …
Overseer and Elected Director Slates Announced
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
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 …
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
Harvard Commencement 2022
… Commencement week this year celebrates the University's 2022 graduates, along with memebers of the classes of 2020 and 2021 who missed out on campus festivities …
Issue: May-June 2022
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