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Mentoring and Moral Experience
… On March 4 , Kolokotrones University Professor Paul Farmer, Ph.D.-M.D. ’90, and Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’86, G ’91, president of Dartmouth College (where he is also professor of … dinner honoring Arthur Kleinman on his seventieth birthday. The many-hatted Kleinman—Rabb professor of anthropology, …
Issue: July-August 2011
Delicious Minimalism
… oils, farmers’ market produce.” Three times a year, Katzen, the celebrated author of more than a dozen cookbooks of vegetarian cuisine, travels from her home in Berkeley, …
Issue: September-October 2006
No Such Thing as Just a Janitor
… It was Richard Montañez’s many jokes, and the audience’s appreciative, rolling laughter, that made the … Sanders Theatre stage—came deeper, quieter acknowledgements of pain and fear and vulnerability that sharpened the air … Cheetos, the spicy, startlingly red, cult-favorite version of the classic cheesy snack. He is now the executive in …
Are Graduate Students Employees?
… members have access to child-care subsidies worth thousands of dollars per year, while graduate-student parents get … employees enjoy dental care generously subsidized by the University, but grad students must pay the full cost of their own. These are some of the concerns that graduate …
Yesterday's News
… 1935 After the Harvard Athletic Association asks alumni to help underwrite the cost of American participation in the coming Berlin Olympics, … condemning this endorsement as “contrary to our ideals of fair play and equality for all….Our traditions demand …
Issue: July-August 2010
What Counts
… Two sets of figures: 179-20 and 130-90. The first was the February 4 Faculty of Arts and Sciences … to convey, or receive, a coherent picture of the enterprise. That’s unfortunate, given the inherent complexity of …
Issue: May-June 2020
Injury and Beauty
… Scarry is teaching two courses: a purely literary class on the three Brontë sisters, and “The Problem of Consent,” drawing examples from literature, medicine, … she says, her work has focused on two areas: “the problem of injury, and why it is so hard to get people to care about …
Issue: March-April 2014
Iconic Library Embraces Digital Era
… What should a home for old books look like in a digital age? The Harvard Library has grappled with this issue (see “ Gutenberg 2.0 ”). Now, the University of Oxford has unveiled its attempt to answer that question in the form of the Weston Library, its new facility for reading, …
Brevia
… collections—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger— come together for the first time in the Harvard Art Museum exhibit … (top), curators have found opportunity in juxtapositions of art from distant cultural traditions. The influence of Classical works on representations of the human body can …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard and Latin America
… and Europe, President Drew Faust is extending her tour of the Crimson Commonwealth to Latin America, with a … trip to Chile and Brazil. University officials traveling with her have posted a dispatch from …
More than Skin Deep
… Lockwood Heffernan ’02, Ph.D. ’07, lived out any new mother’s dream: she spent a few days at The Spa at Norwich Inn. There, in the depth of New England’s snowy January, she swam in a warm, … with a pedicure.” Meanwhile, her husband took advantage of the fitness center and reveled in a back massage. “There …
Issue: March-April 2014
Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn
… Harvard’s lead piano technician Mariana Quinn, who oversees the maintenance of the University’s more than 200 pianos. Although her … Her first six months as a technician, she tuned the pianos of her father’s former clients—the last ones he ever …
Issue: July-August 2022
Yesterday's News
… 1920 The editors express hope that an “overalls movement”—“the cultivation of a spirit of moderation in this period of lavish expenditure”—that …
Issue: March-April 2010
Old Lampooner
… Thackeray ranked second only to Charles Dickens in the English literary pantheon. Now he is mostly ignored except as the author of the novel Vanity Fair, in which he skewered large segments of British society with cheerful humor and hatched an …
Issue: May-June 2014
“Almost a Card-Carrying Chemist”
… willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries. Phillips professor of astronomy Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative (see “ Life’s …
Issue: July-August 2019