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One Hundred Years of Educating Educators
… members, and educationally minded visitors packed into the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Hall for the HGSE Centennial Kickoff … more complicated than the CEO of a large multi-unit enterprise,” he said. Long nodded. “Yes,” she said simply, with a …
The Inspired Choreography of Irineo Cabreros
… At the Harvard Dance Center in April, at an evening showcasing the work of emerging choreographers, Irineo Cabreros’s “Quartet for the End of Time” stood out. There was the unusual score, combining …
Deep Cravings
… The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of … gamblers may support Bergman's notion. "Gambling at slot machines seems to have more addictive potential than table …
A Garden of Prose
… The 2,000-square-foot vegetable plot—planted with fava … The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (2009; appearing in softcover this fall). Prose writes everything except, well, poetry. “Francine is one of the great writers of her generation,” says James Atlas …
Issue: September-October 2010
Matthew Nock Appointed Professor of Psychology
… Matthew Nock , previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been granted tenure and is now …
Admissions Equity
… Harvard gave admissions preference to “legacies”—children of alumni. I knew that, I replied. I had in mind M. Elaine … vivid story of her freshman encounter with an alumnus, the parent of a classmate whose middle name she subsequently … ties the legacy effect to related phenomena, such as the rise of upper-income sports (womens crew, horseback riding) …
Issue: November-December 2006
Neuroeconomics
… Certain patterns of response to rewards seem to be biologically embedded in the human brain. A branch of behavioral economics called … is less straightforward than, say, playing slot machines and losing money. Yet it is one of the most …
Issue: March-April 2006
A Radical Fix for the Republic
… , Lawrence Lessig , a mild-seeming legal scholar, pursued the intricacies of updating American copyright law to reflect the rise of the digital era, the Internet, and new means of …
Issue: July-August 2012
Janiva Ellis at the Carpenter Center
… Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (January 31-April 6). The exhibition highlights 12 paintings that have lain … primarily for technicolor canvases depicting experiences of black and biracial people, mostly women, and … years later she was included in the Whitney Biennial. Her rise coincided with a “rapacious market for work by black …
Issue: January-February 2025
Gary Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status
… In a June 10 email to affiliates of the anthropology department, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Peabody Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced that she …
Off the Shelf
… Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money, by James Engell ’73, Ph.D. ’78, Gurney … Hopkins University Press, $55). This massive volume surprises and charms with old-fashioned-drawings of bridges, …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Students Speak
… Harvard Business School (HBS) maintains the confidentiality of students’ classroom comments, but … goals.î She is now examining nonprofit and social enterprises. Students reported that their antennae have become …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Home Front
… Lawrence S. Bacow said, “[W]e must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.” His context … itself, if it truly aspires to be a leading institution of higher education, at a moment when many institutions seem … - committee - 20 ). Such issues could arise about Lowell House, given President Abbott Lawrence …
Issue: May-June 2021
The Physics of Jackson Pollock’s Art
… skill gives us modern art.” But recent work by Valpine professor of mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan suggests that at least …
Sex and the Inner City
… The sexual and romantic habits of urban black males have … it’s all about trust.” The question of fidelity does not arise with stunts. But even with wifeys, only some men were …
Issue: March-April 2006