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Timothy Mitchison
… England encountered occasional obstacles to doing science. The Sabbagh professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School has been quietly …
Issue: November-December 2003
Chapter & Verse
… Germaine Odenheimer hopes to learn the author and title of a poem that begins, "I am a magical … mouse. I don't eat cheese. I eat houses and the tops of trees." Susanne Byron asks for th author and title of a …
Calorie-burning “Beige Fat” Identified
… cells, found primarily in infants, burn energy. Now a team of scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), led by Korsmeyer professor of cell biology and medicine Bruce Spiegelman , has identified “beige fat,” another energy-burning but genetically distinct fat cell in …
Chapter & Verse
… More queries from the archives: “Nothing is more likely to propel us headlong … barbarism than a single-minded obsession with the concept of spiritual purity” and “Feigning deafness may be … action gets heavy, keep the rhetoric cool.” “the boredom of living versus the suffering of being” “When you see the …
Issue: July-August 2017
Heritage and Service
… Cesar Conde ’95 and Carlos Zumpano ’96 bumped into each other in the Yard and discovered they’d had the same idea: … activism and build bridges across generations. “A Community of Experiences” combined the serious--including talks by former Miami mayor Manny Diaz, a fellow at the Institute of Politics; Modesto A. Maidique, president emeritus of …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard College Connection Launches This Fall
… A new initiative —The Harvard College Connection—will use social media, video, … at Harvard or at other selective institutions, University officials announced today. “To ensure that talented … we need to meet them where they are,” Harvard College dean of admissions and financial aid William R. Fitzsimmons said …
Fineberg to Step Down as Provost
… has announced his intention to resign his position July 1. The news, which came just 10 days after Lawrence H. Summers … M.D. '71--went on to earn an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government in 1972 and, in 1980, a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This was followed by tenure at the …
Video “Training Ground” to Debut in Widener
… A state-of-the art video-capture studio will make its debut in Widener … this fall, equipped with green screens and 4K capability—the highest resolution format available—to serve as both a … technology into their teaching, according to University officials. Located just one floor below a rare Gutenberg …
Putting Stock in Your Doc
… author and New Yorker writer (not to mention Recanati professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School), has written a book … Pamela Hartzband, his most discerning critic (see “The Examined Life,” Harvard Magazine’s profile of Groopman) …
Branching Out
… What it will be, nobody exactly knows: neither the 50 volunteers who will have happily trudged for hours through muddy woodlands north of Boston to gather tractor-trailer loads of saplings—linden, beech, Norwegian maple, depending on …
Issue: May-June 2015
With Our Thanks
… We are honored to recognize two artists for their outstanding work on readers’ behalf during 2018, and … a $1,000 honorarium on each. Robert Adam Mayer Courtesy of Robert Adam Mayer New York-based photographer Robert … amply demonstrated anew in his cover and interior images of black-studies scholar Fred Moten, for the …
Issue: January-February 2019
Chapter and Verse
… Vann McGee would like to discover the origin of the following declension: “I am firm. You are … thesis that everyone in the field is seeking a definition of what makes us human, but that it is unwise to publish …
Issue: March-April 2010
Olives Revisited
… Mediterranean cuisine has made a big splash in Boston. The restaurant has now spun off a chain of upscale outposts in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and …
Chapter & Verse
… Charles Miller seeks an identification, and the exact words, of the German historian referred to by the late Harvard Law School professor Paul Freund in a 1950 essay: “No one would have been …
Issue: November-December 2009
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8676 • April 29 through May 2: The annual Arts First festival hosts events throughout … 1935, Paradise Lost, by Clifford Odets, probes the effects of money and greed on family, business, and love amid a …
Issue: March-April 2010