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Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA
… A team of scientists led by Feng Zhang ’04 of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT announced Thursday …
Tyrant Tales
… be, you know, relevant ? Count on Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt, the formidable Shakespeare scholar, to enter the fray. Close on the heels of his volume about the Adam and Eve myth (see “Always …
Issue: May-June 2018
A Special Notice Regarding Commencement Exercises
… 30, 2013. University Marshal Jacqueline O'Neill provides the following details: Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, … Morning: Degree candidates will receive a limited number of tickets to Commencement. Parents and guests of degree …
Issue: March-April 2013
Door Speak
… dean for undergraduate education Susan Pedersen displays on the door of her Busch Hall 417 office a fortune-cookie fortune. It advises, "Many …
Issue: January-February 2002
Honoring Artemis
… prefacing her new collection, After Callimachus: Poems, professor of English Stephanie Burt writes, “These pages reflect, interpret, adapt, respond to, and …
A Special Notice Regarding Commencement Exercises
… Thursday, May 30, 2013 Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, … Morning: Degree candidates will receive a limited number of tickets to Commencement. Parents and guests of degree …
Issue: May-June 2013
Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century
… was a thoroughly American institution. Perhaps 10 percent of the case studies analyzed during M.B.A. students’ two-year … here. I assume the same was true at Harvard’s other professional schools: while they admitted overseas students, …
Issue: September-October 2011
HBS, Stanford Forge a Bicoastal e-Alliance
… and Stanford Business School announced on November 30 that they had agreed to jointly explore developing and delivering … for such education. The alliance is a response to an array of challenges facing top-flight business schools, which have … in large companies. Trends that may erode the influence of these schools include increased learning on the job, …
Changemaker in Admissions
… The fourth of seven children, David L. Evans grew up in Arkansas in one of the nation’s poorest counties. His grandmother was born into …
Issue: September-October 2020
Chapter & Verse
… Laurinda Morway writes, “Years ago an author described the phenomenon of hearing or seeing something for the first time and then … in the dark,” or “a more popular variation: ‘I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m afraid of the things moving around in the …
Issue: September-October 2019
National Book Critics Circle Honors Three
… In its annual awards ceremony on March 8, the National Book Critics Circle honored three Harvard affiliates: Maya Jasanoff, professor of history, in general nonfiction for Liberty’s …
Harvard Will Bargain with Grad-Student Union
… The University will bargain with the newly elected … an email to the Harvard community this afternoon. “In light of the outcome of the vote and the existing NLRB precedent [on the …
Harvard Loves Hard Hats
… The crimson couture of choice this summer—for buildings and those engaged with them—was the shroud and the hard hat. In a frenzy of construction, the former Holyoke Center (being …
Issue: September-October 2016
House Renovation Designs Revealed
… Just in time to engage alumni returning for reunions, the College has unveiled its plans for the initial test of undergraduate House renovation—one of the most ambitious capital projects planned for the …
Chapter & Verse
… Diana Westgate seeks the complete words of a sonnet written to someone old who remained interested in the aspirations of younger people. She thinks it includes the phrases “grim …
Issue: January-February 2015