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The Unruly Academy
… L. Rudenstine, Ph.D. ’64, a “recently minted assistant professor,” found himself walking by Mallinckrodt Hall, where a crowd of students had blocked the entry to impede the work of a Dow Chemical Company … of a piece with his worldview and character. It is no surprise that he mounts a vigorous, ringing reaffirmation of …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Ethanol Illusion
… Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) … to 500 gallons for every man, woman, and child in the country. With gasoline prices up by almost a third over … gallon. Yet by May 2006, the wholesale price of ethanol had risen to $2.65 a gallon (or in reality $3.16 a gallon, if …
Issue: November-December 2006
And the War Came
… We are in the midst of a perfect storm of new Civil War books. With the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 2009 and this …
Issue: March-April 2011
Labor of Love
… Fred Crafts ’50 was six when in 1935 his father first took him hunting on Monomoy, which juts into Nantucket Sound “at the elbow of Cape Cod some 70 miles southeast of Boston,” as he puts it in the introduction to his first …
Issue: May-June 2016
Birth of a Feminist
… girl even if I felt more like a displaced adolescent. My mother had advised me to study home economics at Brooklyn … been right. The author's photograph in the Radcliffe class of 1958's Freshman Register Photograph courtesy of Ann R. … hours later I would join the 266 other girls who would comprise the class of '58. Yes, all the publications of the …
Issue: March-April 2005
Hasty Pudding Announces 2019’s Man and Woman of the Year
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has named actors Bryce … Dallas Howard and Milo Ventimiglia its 2019 Woman and Man of the Year, the awards presented annually “to performers … have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.” Howard is best known for her role as …
Remembering Henry Cobb, Architect of CGIS
… Editor’s note: Henry Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the Graduate School of … up at the circular stairway to the third floor, which rises from a “pond” of shiny black stones imported from a …
“You Need to Move”
… Robert Verchick, J.D. ’89, professes environmental law at Loyola University and is a … in New Orleans, providing an up-close-and-personal view of the threats from climate change: rising seas, more powerful … locals call them, have been increasing because of sea level rise. Today the region experiences 10 tidal floods per year. …
Issue: July-August 2023
Courses of Study
… Perusing the course catalog for first-year Harvard Medical School … that much education on how to talk with patients at the end of their lives,” he says. “Interacting with a patient and … students in the school’s M.D. program, the course was part of a first-year curriculum that concentrates on how the …
Issue: January-February 2006
Harvard’s Finances in a Challenging Year
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024, published today—an academic year of campus tumult, an overturned presidency, and speculation … circumstances. Revenues and expenses both continued to rise, again yielding an operating surplus (extending a …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
The Faculty Resumes Growing
… The 2021-2022 report on faculty trends, one of two parts of … to 87 (12 percent). •The number of non-ladder faculty has risen by 44 percent , to 356 full-time equivalents in the …
A Different Kind of Triathlete
… cooking Thai food from scratch, souping up old cars from the junk heap, or even completing a triathlon. Jayne Williams '85, author of Slow Fat Triathlete (Marlowe/Avalon) wants you to get a … on. A few years back, Williams was both injured and out of shape. Dabbling in college basketball had left her with a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Questions of Character
… doing in a Harvard Business School course? And why is the professor talking about students’ “internal struggle?” … life that surrounds him.” When leaders encounter complex crises, Badaracco argues, flexibility may be more important …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Robust Decade at the Business School
… Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … remains prospective. Meanwhile, international students have risen from 23 percent to 33 percent of the M.B.A. class …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Other Commons: David A. Moss
… An interview with David A. Moss , McLean professor of business administration and founder of the Tobin Project . Read the complete article, “Can America … It was enormously controversial. Ultimately, though, the rise of public education constituted a powerful competitive …
Issue: September-October 2012