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Climate Change Solutions?
… Thanks in part to photographs of shrinking glaciers, news reports on the devastation caused by fierce storms, and the Nobel … plants. It might also, in theory, benefit coral reefs. The rise in CO 2 levels has made the oceans more acidic, a …
Issue: May-June 2008
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
AI as Cancer Oracle?
… Computational biologist Chris Sander and other scientists have developed a method for using artificial intelligence to identify people at high risk of pancreatic cancer, solely from national health records. … a risk factor appeared in a patient’s medical record of symptoms and diagnoses, but when it appeared in the …
Issue: May-June 2024
Brew’s Clues
… Nearly eight years ago, Theresa McCulla ’04, Ph.D. ’17, crouched in the middle of Mass. Ave., collecting the set of chef’s knives that had … or bulletins circulated among homebrew clubs before the rise of the Internet, are “really a kind of goldmine for a …
Issue: March-April 2018
Wired for Life
… Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger … Retirement communities generally are also responding to the rise in on-line literacy with a two-pronged effort: support …
Advancing the Science and Art of Teaching
… The 2013 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) … pedagogy. Ever since HILT was launched in the fall of 2011 , during Harvard’s 375 th -anniversary celebration, … essay, “The Aims of Education,” on the change from an enterprise “alive with a ferment of genius” to mere “pedantry and …
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
Brazil's "Minister of Ideas"
… In the Times story, Unger compares his Harvard experience to … garden. It is not dangerous enough... The New York Times profiles Pound professor of law Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who is taking a …
The Indispensable Power
… has never been so important as now, when we are confronting the most serious crises since the Second World War: the global pandemic and economic collapse. When we emerge finally from the grip of the coronavirus, Americans will need to account for a …
Issue: July-August 2020
The Endowment Rises
… endowment was valued at $32.7 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2013, up $2.0 billion (6.5 percent) … $2 billion to $32.7 billion … 1508 … 1511 … The Endowment Rises … article …
Issue: November-December 2013
Critic of Kennedy School Alumnus Arrested for Embezzlement
… A critic of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mayor John Fetterman, M.P.P. ’99— profiled in the September-October 2010, magazine — has been arrested for …
President Faust on the Continuing Resonance of Race
… The Harvard Gazette reports that President Drew Faust joined … Business School (HBS) class for a personal discussion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the civil-rights leader’s resonant defense of civil disobedience. Her participation underscores the …
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the World
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about income … Billions ,” John Rosenberg reports on the social-enterprise work—for-profit companies with a social mission—of …
Challenges on the Field and Off
… Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing … why Harvards Division 1-AA football program would never rise to Division 1-A, as a mean-spirited attack on the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Learning, and Life, in the Houses
… In 2008, when Suzy Nelson, then Harvard College’s associate dean for residential life, … and Elizabeth Ross about becoming master and co-master of Currier House, she suggested that it was good to eat with … “Elizabeth wrinkled her nose,” recalls Wrangham, Moore professor of biological anthropology—not at the students’ …
Issue: November-December 2013