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Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases
… Castle professor of medicine Dan Barouch , who runs Beth Israel Deaconess … and Vaccine research, has been awarded $24.5 million during the next five years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help find a cure …
A New Plant to Enhance Memory
… A plant that grows in higher-altitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere has memory-enhancing effects across … to findings published today in Science Advances. A group of 23 researchers report that root material from Rhodiola …
Fellows’ Travels
… The Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) fellows’ courses of action range widely: from raising awareness of sex trafficking in Boston to deploying a mobile app for …
Issue: March-April 2014
Hiram S. Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for their volunteer work: …
Issue: November-December 2016
Songs for Scientists, Parts I and II
… In introducing her poem at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on June 6 in Sanders … its "various sources, one ephemeral--a postcard some of you may have seen, which portrays the Cornell brain … the Audubon Guide to North American Birds. It's in memory of my father, who died this year, on my birthday." I. BRAIN …
How Will Harvard Change Post-Coronavirus?
… By the time you read this column, students and faculty and … in higher education, challenges Harvard to take advantage of the times.) Scanning the terrain, alterations small and … by Harvard President James Bryant Conant, in pursuit of his egalitarian, meritocratic admissions agenda) may be …
Issue: September-October 2021
Cambridge 02138
… Unequal Universities I appreciated the useful selections from Charles T. Clotfelder’s extensive … unequal,” November-December 2017, page 50). I was surprised, nonetheless, to find only passing reference to the … support from the states that took the federal grants of land, first authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862, “to …
Issue: January-February 2018
Cornucopias in Paint
… It’s the most unlikely of galleries—a concrete retaining wall in the shadow of Interstate 93, just outside Boston. But David Fichter ’73 …
Issue: September-October 2011
Yesterday’s News
… 1915 The Bulletin salutes the fiftieth anniversary of the Harvard Club of New York with particular praise for its activism: more …
Issue: November-December 2010
Creating Space to Contemplate Success
… we are successful, and where we are falling short,” Hobbs professor of cognition and education Howard Gardner and his coauthors … write in Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet . Yet these conversations—both internal and among friends—seem to …
Issue: November-December 2008
Title IX at 45
… students once got ready to play basketball or field hockey, they put on uniforms of knee-length skirts or shorts, with tights underneath. … Study in April, coinciding with the forty-fifth anniversary of Title IX’s passage. The exhibit uses Title IX as a lens …
President Bacow’s Harvard Baccalaureate Remarks
… Good afternoon, members of the Class of 2021, soon-to-be alumni of Harvard College. The role of …
Relational Lens
… For Geoffrey Biddle ’72, photography has been a way of earning a living, practicing an art, and understanding his family. Or rather, families: Biddle has had two marriages and fathered …
Issue: July-August 2014
Yesterday’s News
… S. Hurlbut notes in his annual report that students in the past year averaged more than 30 class absences apiece. … even stupidity is no obstacle to perfection in regularity of attendance.” 1926 The athletic authorities of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard agree to charge $5 a ticket …
Issue: March-April 2011
Messy Questions, Messy Answers
… Some questions reveal more in the asking than in the answering. As I ranted about the impracticalities of unpaid internships, a friend interrupted, “Can you be on … Services for more than 13 years, she looked equally surprised: “No one has ever asked me that before.” Even my …
Issue: July-August 2011