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Medicine Minus Mythmaking
… New Directions has reissued The Doctor Stories , which collects medical writings by … poems, and an autobiographical excerpt—to get at the heart of his dual career in letters and in medicine. When the … him on the path to training as a physician—and long-time professor at Harvard. (Among the sharp wisdom his mentor gave …
Issue: November-December 2018
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
Social Club Ban?
… banning students from joining any final club or other unrecognized social organization, whether gender … take effect beginning with students entering in the fall of 2018, and effectively end undergraduate participation in off-campus social organizations by 2022. Prior committees …
Issue: September-October 2017
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
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
How To Harvard—Advice From 14 College Alumni
… H arvard Magazine asked recent reunioners to reflect on their undergraduate experience: what they wish they had … they have for current undergraduates on making the most of their time at Harvard. “I wish I’d taken even more CS classes.” Susan D. Wojcicki ’90 is the CEO of YouTube. She concentrated in history and literature. I …
Gore Boosts a Greener Harvard
… ’94, spoke about sustainability to a packed Tercentenary Theatre on October 22; the former vice president, who has … September-October 2008, page 57). His speech capped a week of events emphasizing environmental stewardship, ranging … fuels. When you pull that thread,” he said, “all of these crises begin to unravel and you hold in your hand the …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
News Briefs
… as possible on fossil fuels.” As an interim objective, the University will “strive to become fossil fuel neutral by … emissions from fossil fuels and investing in “high-quality, off-campus projects that displace comparable amounts of emissions for any emissions that remain.” McArthur …
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Issue: May-June 2018
A Cancer Battlefield Glossary
… that split ATP into ADP, phosphate, and energy, which is then available for cellular functions such as mitosis (cell division).  amino acid: Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that are the building …
Issue: January-February 2007