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Why We Eat What We Do
… In the spring of 1910, the freshmen of the Harvard Class of 1913 sat down at New American House … were invisible,” Chaplin explains. “They were just like machines that brought you what you wanted.” If a student …
Head to Toe
… Beneath shelves of books on the biology of bone, a collection of skulls and running shoes lies in a …
Issue: January-February 2011
Serving on the Corporation
… D. Ronald Daniel : While the bylaws do not set any limits with respect to time or … talking to her about 10 years or so. Henry Rosovsky : It’s often said about the Corporation that it is a self-perpetuating body and that is often raised in a spirit of criticism. But as a member of …
Issue: May-June 2006
News in Brief
… Nobelists Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. ’82 , professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Victor …
Issue: January-February 2025
Airing Out the Living Wage
… The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of $10.68 per hour for Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2002
Introducing the i-Lab
… The Harvard Innovation Lab —“Hi” in its cheery logo—was … to users throughout the University, and opening part of it to the surrounding community. The lab occupies the … Entrepreneurship appeals to many M.B.A. students. The rise of engineering. Further impetus comes from the rapid …
Issue: January-February 2012
The SARS Scare
… In a matter of months in early 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome spread to 29 countries, killing nearly 10 percent of the people it infected. No drug could stop SARS, and the …
Issue: March-April 2007
A Model City
… says Fred Gevalt ’72, M.Arch. ’76. In his case, over the past eight years, in the basement of his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, Gevalt has … a notable element of urban life. Not far off, a high-rise residential area overlooks the town’s fish pier. On one …
Issue: January-February 2025
Behind the Rampages
… Their names— and their respective tragedies—are now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, … Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas. The school shootings of the late 1990s came to represent everything bad about …
Issue: September-October 2002
Love’s Labors
… fell suddenly in love—with a man she’d known for decades. They had worked together in an MIT lab during the 1960s and … respective families. But by the time they took serious note of each other’s romantic appeal, in 1990, both were … thanks to a steady divorce rate, increasing longevity, the rise of financially independent women, and waning stigmas …
Issue: March-April 2009
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 …
Allston: The Killer App
… In the quarter-century since Harvard first perceived that its … management time—together totaling at least hundreds of millions of dollars; academic planning spanning parts of … could be privately financed; so could a proposed "enterprise research campus"—a commercial business park—at the …
The Richness of Nature at Large
… Editor’s note: Spencer Lenfield ’12 reported on the unique loan of Itō Jakuchū’s magnificent works to the National Gallery … this is his dispatch. The 30 paintings that comprise the mid-eighteenth-century Japanese painter Itō …
The New Medicine
… Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising … compounds emerging from laboratories. But questions have arisen about quality and conflicts of interest in the …
Harvard College Admits Class of 2027
… H arvard College today offered regular admission to 1,220 applicants to the class of 2027; combined with the 722 early-action applicants …