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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
Greener Buildings and Cities
… Given the recurrent campus exchanges on climate change and fossil-fuel divestment , the advent of a major Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has been remarkably quiet. Now that its …
What Stress Reveals
… Evolution, the fossil record shows, sometimes proceeds in sudden leaps. Millions of years of stasis can end abruptly with multiple changes in forms …
Issue: July-August 2008
Chapter & Verse
… Jaquay recalls her parents joking about a quip made during the lengthy negotiations in Paris to end the Vietnam War. The delegates quibbled about everything from the shape of the table to the refreshments, and a humorist suggested … and specify what was said. Ken Agran seeks the source of “She burned too bright [or “brightly”] for this world.” …
Issue: July-August 2018
Brevia
… Harvard College Professors Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office Virginie Greene Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard News … ; professor of economics David Laibson ; Cabot professor of the natural sciences Douglas Melton ; Johnstone Family …
Issue: July-August 2008
Commencement Confetti
… Techno-Human Interface The Commencement exercises were broadcast this year on five … and the Old Yard. Subtitles scroll across the bottom of each as speakers talk, but the captioning—keyed in by a … Drew Faust was in line to get one—from the University of Oxford, on June 20. And as Harvard recognized one Yale …
Issue: July-August 2012
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
Landmark Bio Breaks Ground
… Construction began today on a state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility in a 40,000-square-foot … leased space at the Watertown Arsenal, a few miles west of Harvard Square, culminating a several-year process of …
A Classicist’s Dylan
… It took six months for Richard Thomas to draft the manuscript for his newest book, Why Bob Dylan Matters, a study, among other things, of the songwriter’s deep and abiding connection to the poets of ancient Greece and Rome. Thomas sat down at his keyboard …
Issue: November-December 2017
Not Holding Out for a Hero
… Cliff Chiang ’96 can still name the first four comics he ever read— Uncanny X-Men, Alpha … Flight, Cloak & Dagger, and Fantastic Four —the adventures of caped crusaders and mutant teens which, in the summer of 1983, he pored over in the back seat on a family road …
Issue: September-October 2015
Lessons in Surprise
… Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto , who led the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, was a … from 1919 to 1921. Seymour Morris Jr. ’68, M.B.A. ’72, of New York City, advances a theory that lessons Yamamoto … was more American than they were.” *** Green surprises. Gardens can surprise: often agreeably, as when a …
Issue: July-August 2010
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
… nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized them, perhaps just what is wanted in a Commencement speaker … and be generous. (His text is sampled here , and the texts of many Commencement-week speeches may be read on-line at … “Crisis at the Helm” and ran a news story up front that reprised the topic with a twist. The admissions office sends a …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Durable Bubble
… The fifth floor of McKay Laboratory houses an unlikely … at department stores for a few hundred dollars. In the hands of mechanical-engineering doctoral student Emilie Dressaire, …
Issue: November-December 2008
Brevia
… Divinity School dean William A. Graham will step down at the end of this academic year, concluding a decade of service (he began serving as acting dean in January …
Issue: November-December 2011
Industrial Origins
… On May 13 , the Watch City Steampunk Festival takes over downtown … edge, like Frenchy and the Punk. There will also be loads of artists with an industrial bent, like Waltham’s Todd Cahill, along with vendors offering “steampunk” clothing, accessories, and …
Issue: May-June 2017