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On Your Honor
… When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted last May to adopt an undergraduate honor code , in the wake of the largest recent case of student misconduct on an …
An Earlier Bid for Mastery
… make designer children. What’s wrong with that? Bass professor of government Michael J. Sandel proposes an answer in The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic …
Issue: May-June 2007
Toward a Zika Vaccine
… Researchers have made a surprising discovery in their search for a vaccine against Zika, a virus that can … a 2015 outbreak, mostly during travel abroad, and hundreds of thousands more in South America. Of the U.S. cases, 223—in Florida and Texas—have been …
“Pride Is Such a Useless Handicap.”
… Putney urges Harvard undergraduates to take full advantage of the College’s intellectual offerings (she feels she did not) and find “the …
Issue: September-October 2011
Shaun Donovan Joins Allston Staff
… will serve as part-time “senior strategist and advisor to the president on Allston and campus development.” Donovan was director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2014 … important role in the regulatory review for the “enterprise research campus,” the commerical development the …
Beyond Brahminism
… 1837, LL.B. ’39, LL.D. ’66, survives in modern memory as the author of Two Years Before the Mast . But his literary legacy alone … been born and bred. The drama of Dana’s remarkable life arises from the unresolved tension between the man he became …
Issue: January-February 2016
Grad Student Union Revote?
… may have to hold a new graduate-student union election if the final outcome of its November election does not result in a victory for … Relations Board (NLRB) report ruled this week, after months of deliberations on the election. According to the ruling, …
A Breakthrough in High-Pressure Physics?
… Two Harvard scientists believe they have produced metallic hydrogen. Their feat, which has … not only because it demonstrates a fundamental new property of the most abundant element in the universe, but because … If that turns out to be true, and an efficient means of producing it can be devised, the applied uses of metallic …
Common Chemicals May Diminish Children’s Benefit from Vaccines
… A Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests … so low it was no longer clinically protective. “We were surprised by the steep negative associations, which suggest that …
Brevia
… Commencement Voices The Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on … on television, M. Butterfly on Broadway), a former member of the Board of Overseers, a campus regular as grand marshal for and …
Issue: May-June 2005
Cambridge 02138
… Presidential Powers Charles and Gregory Fried’s article “In the Wake of War” (September-October, page 36) is very principled, … Jefferson and Lincoln. We are dealing with the real threats of massive slaughter and destruction, involving hundreds, …
Issue: November-December 2010
Your Magazine—Anytime, Anyplace
… than ever —but readers have begun exploring realms beyond the printed page. Aiming to meet Harvard Magazine readers … to your suggestions. And for the first time, we can offer a print-like reading experience to international … and about the University itself. “Since the middle of the 1990s, we have become an online daily news …
Issue: March-April 2014
Peak Experiences
… Club president Vladislav Sevostianov ’19. South of Boston, the former granite quarries in Quincy offer about 100 climbs, some as high as 80 feet, with scenic …
Issue: May-June 2019
Grandel's Playhouse to Wax, Hasty Pudding to Wane
… Opening soon: the Market Theater. Among the blessings the new performance … confers is that undergraduate groups, faced with a shortage of boards to tread, may rent the use of the hall. The theater will be owned and operated by the …
A Better Path to High Performance
… to perform in a high-pressure situation—addressing a room of skeptical colleagues, meeting with a demanding boss, or singing for a crowd—keep calm! That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. Yet new research by social scientist Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business …
Issue: May-June 2014