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“Cheaper, Faster, Better”
… Even as biomedical science is poised to deliver therapies and cures for countless diseases, “There has never … opportunities” to achieve those goals “and the paucity of resources,” declared George Daley, dean of Harvard … vision entails reorganizing the teaching and research enterprise, revitalizing HMS’s campus, and expanding the ranks of …
Issue: January-February 2018
Scripted from Life
… militia killed more than 800,000 Rwandans, mostly members of the Tutsi minority, in barely three months while most of the world looked away. Media coverage was sparse; the …
Issue: May-June 2005
University People
… Math and Science Merit The five inaugural winners of the $3-million Breakthrough … Milner and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ’06 ) include professor of mathematics Jacob Lurie , for work in derived …
Issue: September-October 2014
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
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 …
“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
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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 …
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
President Garber, Provost Manning
… Having shed the “interim” title on August 2, President Alan M. Garber … solidified his administration by ending the interim status of his designated successor as provost, former Harvard Law … March 14, both helped Garber assume leadership at a time of extraordinary demands on Massachusetts Hall and enabled …