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… National Academicians David Laibson Courtesy of David Laibson In a year in which 40 percent of its newly elected members were women, a new high, the National Academy of Sciences announced 100 new members, …
Issue: July-August 2019
Apollo 11, Up Close and Personal
… Fifty years after the first moon landing, it’s still hard to place the importance of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s initial lunar footsteps in the context of human history. There’s the feat itself, but also the …
Chapter & Verse
… seeks a citation for “All science, all religion began with the innovator, the nonconformist, the heretic.” She writes, “In the 1950s, it was on the front cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review with a photo of a sculpture of a hand reaching up.” Thomas Burrows hopes, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Trimming Truancy
… a measurable impact on student absenteeism from school? The answer is yes. “Reports of the death of mail are greatly exaggerated,” quips Todd Rogers. A …
Issue: May-June 2018
Figuring It Out
… The first two years of college were a time of adjustments for John Fish ’21. Like any other student, he … a bit of a persona on camera. People here were kind of surprised when we met because I was a completely different …
Issue: September-October 2019
Engaging with “Inclusion” at Harvard
… As Harvard and other educational institutions have honed their admissions … recently on “inclusion”: trying to ensure that all members of their more heterogeneous populations actually feel that … in Morning Prayers addresses (most recently, at the opening of this academic year ), among other occasions. Following …
New Kennedy School Dean Announced
… The University announced today that Harvard Kennedy School … (HKS) announced that Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. ’03, a professor of international studies at Stanford University, will become …
Most Harvard Staff Will Be Remote through June 30
… Most of Harvard’s faculty and staff members will continue working … employees today. While Harvard has successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 on campus, Lapp wrote, “cases are rising in the …
Harvard Medalists 2013
… Botyos Herschbach, Ph.D. ’69—were scheduled to receive the 2013 Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the … May 30th during the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Although illness prevented Coleman from … the first international alumnus to have served as president of the HAA (see “‘Pure Brit’ Finds Second Home at Harvard” …
Cambridge 02138
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Your most recent report on the struggle for a living wage at Harvard ("Wage Wrangling," … us to treat these people as employees. This cuts them out of participation in employee benefits." This is an … [and hence her own] culpability in the exploitation of postdoc labor. Trainee status for postdocs must be …
Issue: September-October 2001
Medical Educator
… education. Primm currently serves as vice-president of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and is an associate professor at …
Issue: May-June 2002
“You Don’t Have to Stop Breathing to Stop Living Life”
… Rain did not dampen the spirits of Harvard’s class of 2019 on the day of their baccalaureate. When Plummer …
Jonathan Service: “Pivoting Perspectives”
… In addition to giving the graduate English address, Jonathan Service received a … me ha namida This was the poem Basho wrote for the occasion of his departure from his home near Edo, the metropolis that … as he sought "to leave behind the cosmopolitan comforts of the city in order to discover the wilds of the north. The …
Harvard and MIT Form Online-Education Venture
… Drew Faust and Susan Hockfield today announced EdX , a nonprofit joint venture that will offer online courses to the general public while investigating technologies for … (FAS) at Harvard , emphasized that EdX was not an enterprise for automating campus-based courses and disseminating …
A Mystical Poet and An American Novelist
… Donald Revell will be the poet, and Andrea Barrett the orator, at the Phi Beta … (PBK) Literary Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week and, in many respects, the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors and their families. …