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More Than 29,000 Seek to Join the Class of 2013
… The number of applications to Harvard College broke previous … again this year: more than 29,000 students applied for the 1,658 slots in the class of 2013, the Crimson , the Boston Globe , and the University …
A Personal Genome Machine?
… In a laboratory behind the Science Center, researchers are working on a high-stakes project at the nexus of physics and biology. If all goes according to … a price in the hundreds or thousands, rather than millions, of dollars. The research, led by Rumford professor of …
Issue: March-April 2007
The State of Unions
… “What do we do when we have the public on our side, when we have workers in motion, when … new center, led by Block and faculty director, Kestnbaum professor of labor and industry Benjamin Sachs. An evolution … expression of worker power,” according to Block—has risen dramatically during the past year. Yet corporations …
“The Ingenuity of an Architect”
… had an epiphany. She remembers walking downtown one day in the early 1990s amid abandoned buildings, graffiti, and … “The place felt unhealthy in a way.” She stopped in front of the massive Hudson’s department store, a ghost of what it had been. Completed in 1911, the 32-floor …
Issue: July-August 2024
A "portion of the People"
… When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's … friends and family members barely concealed their surprise, according to Dale (Rosen) '69, Ph.D. '97. "How could … everyone goes to church on Sunday? Where in the wilderness of South Carolina had we managed to find a Hebrew teacher?" …
Issue: January-February 2003
Gordon McKay
… paid cobbler Lyman Blake $70,000, mostly in promises, for the patent on a machine Blake had devised to stitch the uppers of shoes to the soles. Shortly afterwards, a group holding a … Cousins to whom he was close got nothing, to their surprise. His wife’s mother and sister were beneficiaries; the …
Issue: September-October 2007
“The Heart of Teaching”
… walked through Radcliffe Yard, where he today addressed the Graduate School of Education’s class of 2024, as a College freshman in 1961. … with technology. “Perhaps, working together with ‘smart machines,’” Gardner said, “we can accomplish what not even …
Rage, Reborn
… headline caught his eye: “Donald Trump Rages Against the Machine.” The chyron cheekily referenced Rage Against … the Machine, the 1990s rock band whose pioneering synthesis of hip-hop’s rhythmic lyricism and heavy metal’s … ideals. So, he says, “I did what any self-respecting pissed-off person would do: I wrote a snarky tweet about it.” Then …
Issue: July-August 2018
The Double Smack of Fishery Collapse
… Pollution of marine ecosystems threatens human health, but a graver concern is the collapse of global fisheries due to overharvesting. A … fishing as well as the impacts of sea temperature rise, ocean acidification, and coral bleaching. All those …
Issue: July-August 2018
Wisdom of the Sages
… The spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the … for its adoption”—as opposed to trashing the public enterprise outright. In the fiercely partisan present, it is rare … origins in his new book, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the …
Issue: May-June 2021
Last of the Seafarers
… “I fully expected to find a place where survival depends on the whims of the ocean, where the line between hungry and full rests … Hu ’16 in a progress report during his stay with the Bajau of Sampela, a seafaring community off the coast of Kaledupa …
Issue: May-June 2018
Reviving the Purpose of American Higher Education
… To secure its identity as The Ohio State University, it engaged in a three-year … it is just one particularly absurd (and expensive) example of the widespread focus on brand identity within American … nonetheless can sustain a meaningful sense of common enterprise and support a range of thoughtful responses essential …
Issue: March-April 2023
“The Risk of Inaction”
… Are you a “Steady Eddy,” “Twin Peaker,” or a “Night Owl”? A software company called Opower has identified what times of the day a large swath of American households typically use … shines, and not otherwise—presenting problems that do not arise from running fossil-fueled or nuclear-power plants in …
Issue: May-June 2015
Five Questions with Audrey Chang ’25 of the Harvard Responsible Computing Club
… with a secondary degree in sociology. Chang is a member of the Harvard Responsible Computing Collective , a student club which aims to promote responsible use of technology in society. What is the Harvard Responsible …
When Systems Fracture
… As the enormity of September 11 sank in, a fertilizer factory … say the other was almost certainly an accident. But think of the technological vulnerabilities the assailants … disastrously and suddenly when certain thresholds--in the machines' case, marked by red lines on gauges--are exceeded. …
Issue: November-December 2001