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Developing Data Science
… Data science is central to research in public health, the physical, social, and biological sciences, and medicine; … research, such as law, government, and even the study of culture. The institute would provide a commons for … the University expects to attract to its Allston “enterprise research campus.” (For an overview, see “ Why ‘Big …
Issue: May-June 2017
Commencing...and Continuing
… The summer after college is a kind of demilitarized zone … buffering the recent graduate from the bleary-eyed memories of sleepless nights and the stormy reality of more to come. …
One and Done
… The Harvard men's basketball team, a number 12 seed in their … in Albuquerque to Vanderbilt, a number 5 seed, by a score of 79-70. The Crimson's Dennis J. Zheng, reporting from the … remembered for having brought a much-maligned program out of the doldrums of college basketball" as "Coach Tommy …
Baccalaureate Address
… Kennedy School. Harvard president Derek Bok salutes the graduating seniors and reminds them that pursuing material values will not bring happiness; … one needs ethical content in one’s work. Listen to the live audio recording. …
Systems Biological and Quantitative
… Gary King , Florence professor of government, and Marc W. Kirschner, Walter professor of … faculty position. King, founder and director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science ( …
Issue: September-October 2009
Good Work Goes Beyond a Paycheck
… The New York Times ’s Sunday Business section had an article on the work of Hobbs professor of cognition and education Howard Gardner, the …
Chapter & Verse
… Paula Bonnell asks who said or wrote, "Some of it I saw, some of it I knew, some of it I was." Karl Guthke wishes to learn the source of "...whose mind contains a world and seems for …
Issue: May-June 2009
Graduate Student Union, Continued
… Graduate-student organizers were buoyed last summer after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) granted students … unionization, still appear remote. After more than a month of delay, the results of the balloting in November were inconclusive: 1,456 …
Residents Frustrated by Allston Expansion
… Wednesday night expressed frustration and concern over the University’s new Institutional Master Plan Notification … residential-and-retail complex located at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue in the North … retail project—slated for groundbreaking this year—because of the “many significant issues that are unresolved” and …
Google Pauses
… in part, until November 1 at least and has also become the subject of litigation. Google announced last December that it had … reached agreement with Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library to …
Issue: November-December 2005
Cancer Chronicle
… writes Matt Freedman ’78, “reproduces a journal I kept in the fall of 2012 while I was undergoing care at Massachusetts General … thing up with whatever came into my head during the course of my treatment.” The result, hand-lettered and illustrated, …
Issue: July-August 2014
Brevia
… Professorship Undone A $2.5-million gift to Harvard Divinity … Islamic religious studies, has been returned. Students and others had raised questions about anti-Semitic activity by … released 11 years earlier. Nota Bene Ratings reprised . U.S. News & World Report , in its wisdom, again …
Issue: November-December 2004
Lafayette 35, Harvard 18
… play in Harvard Stadium on Saturday. Taking full advantage of early Harvard turnovers, dropped passes, and penalties at … hadn’t lost to Lafayette since 1996, and hadn’t lost at the Stadium since the final game of the 2006 season. Lafayette (5-1, 1-0 Patriot League) had …
Spring into Sports
… page 83), ran a personal best 55.88 seconds to win the NCAA 400-meter hurdles championship at the University of Oregon--her first national title. (She finished seventh … Columbia to share the league title. In the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament, Notre Dame blanked the …
How to Wreak Havoc
… In football , there’s a radical asymmetry between offense and defense. For an offensive play to succeed, all 11 players have to execute …
Issue: September-October 2011