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Tidbits, One Ringtailed
… A contributing editor of this magazine, Christopher S. Johnson ’64, of Cambridge, read the entire forty-fifth anniversary report of his College …
Issue: March-April 2010
Losing Control: A Scientific Love Story
… Weiss, whose company is called PhD Productions. “My love of science stemmed from wanting to know how life works and why things are the way they are. In writing and directing movies, I … and story the same way — trying to get to the essence of why people are the way they are and do what they do.” …
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
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
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
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 …
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
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 …
Anniversary Announcements
… John Harvard was born, but a record book from Southwark Cathedral in London announces his baptism there on November … anniversary. photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office In the land of his birth, the University’s original benefactor will be …
Issue: November-December 2007
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 …
Class Gifts
… Why is it, University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, asked his Tercentenary Theatre … chuckle” after beginning his report “on the present state of the University’s resources” at the annual HAA meeting? … business. Harvard had received 88,000 gifts through the end of May from 30,000 alumni, he noted, thanks in good measure …
Issue: July-August 2008
Chapter and Verse
… J.P. Akins requests the complete text of a poem he remembers from his youth … into the November evening. ” He thinks it may be the work of the late David McCord ’21, L.H.D. ’56. From our …
Issue: January-February 2011
Football: Harvard 29, Cornell 13
… The final score of this past Saturday’s football game … unbeatens at Harvard Stadium may be best expressed in terms of consequential takeaways of the pigskin: Harvard 3, Cornell 0. Employing an …
Centennial Medalists
… The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2024
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. …