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Architecture That Imitates Life
… The relationship between architecture and nature, for the last 500 years or so, has been one of juxtaposition. Architects and planners, referring to … model for building design. “As a practicing architect, one of the reasons I went to the Graduate School of Design was …
Issue: September-October 2009
Chef’s Knives and Cardiologists
… “ I come from three generations of Jewish bakers,” says David Eisenberg, Osher distinguished associate professor of medicine. “I grew up cooking and with a great … of life. We forget that at our peril.” Eisenberg (see “ The New Ancient Trend in Medicine ,” March-April 2002, page …
Issue: July-August 2011
Former Fellow Chelsea Manning
… The mid September appointment of Chelsea Manning—a former soldier convicted of leaking classified information, pardoned by President …
Issue: November-December 2017
Rolling Along
… Before the Harvard football team kicked off the school’s 142nd … toughest foe was a familiar one: his 2014 squad, one of the greatest in Crimson history. This year, after all, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2013-14 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the … are Harvard faculty members: Arkhat Abzhanov, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology , who studies the …
Chapter and Verse
… Patrick Powers would like to learn the name of the physicist who allegedly declared, “This is not nuts, this is supernuts,” on viewing the launch of the prototype of a space ship powered by nuclear …
Issue: May-June 2015
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. …
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 …
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
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
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
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
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 …