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… St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. '94 (Simon … and Schuster, $24). It's a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. But the truth about the … crafted with an eye to both function and fine art surprise and delight. The chest below, by a Cantabrigian, is in …
Issue: March-April 2004
These Bots Were Made for Walking
… from helping hearts pump blood to fighting cancer . Now, they’re adding a new accomplishment to their list: improving … have tackled this challenge by designing a special type of robot called an exosuit: a soft, flexible robotic device … improve on nature. Cajigas and Bonato’s work shows that machines, by perturbing natural walking patterns, can help …
World Premiere of esperanza spalding and Wayne Shorter’s Opera, (Iphigenia)
… Wayne Shorter, the 88-year-old, 11-time Grammy-winning saxophonist … Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston, Shorter and Harvard professor of the practice of music esperanza spalding (who does not …
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
… 23, 1918, when Harvard College opened its doors for the new school year, the Spanish flu had infected hundreds of Cambridge residents. More than 3,000 local … with cases in the thousands and new infections still on the rise, he banned public gatherings and ordered schools, …
Aung San Suu Kyi: “The Basics of Democratic Practice”
… Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—founder and chair of Burma’s National League for Democracy (NLD), and now a member of that nation’s elected parliamentary minority—spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening. Making use of …
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
… In the mid 1990s Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. ’84, was raising … the Harvard libraries during a capital campaign as a member of the FAS development team. She recalls people saying, … anymore now that everything is turning to digital.’ And, of course,” she says now, “the absolute opposite has …
Issue: March-April 2025
His Story in the Making
… classmates thought Selamawi "Mawi" Asgedom '99 was just another kid from outside Chicago, a history major and resident of Pforzheimer House. He flashed a 1,000-kilowatt smile, … next week in USA Today saying, 'Cities report an alarming rise in parking meter vandalism.' But you've got to get kids …
Issue: March-April 2002
A Park of One’s Own
… Walk through the front archway at the Frederick Law Olmsted National … In the middle, ivy runs up the rough and reddish trunk of a 90-foot Eastern hemlock. “Olmsted planted that soon … 1883,” park ranger Mark D. Swartz explained during a tour of the Brookline, Massachusetts, site. “He envisioned that …
Issue: September-October 2014
Graduate School of Education
… Dean Kathleen McCartney will speak at the convocation ceremony on Wednesday, May 26, at 3 p.m. in Radcliffe Yard. Visit the Graduate School of Education website . … Dean Kathleen McCartney will speak at the May 26 convocation ceremony. … Graduate School of Education - Commencement & Reunion 2010 … Graduate School …
Live Long—and Save the Planet
… and legumes—are beneficial for human health, reducing the risk of chronic ailments such as heart disease. At the same time, … March-April 2017, page 11). Musicus was particularly surprised by findings related to nut consumption; nuts such as …
Issue: March-April 2023
Latin Salutatory: “Campus of Dreams”
… English translaton follows... Praeses Aestive, Decani, Professores, vos qui geritis et exercitis nostros manipulos … et cum "Thwacko!" digno Magni Mannii, quam cel- errime profecti sumus. Cum primum Bostoniam, domum Soccorum Rubrorum … cheered us on in numbers that must equal those at Fenway; mothers and fathers, our number one fans, you who have …
Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate
… The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, … trucks averaged 12.4 miles per gallon in 1960. The oil crises of the 1970s triggered an increased demand for …
Issue: March-April 2008
Can MOOCs Predict the Future of Online Education?
… The best use of massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be in providing instruction that leads to online professional degrees—not the extension of basic college … programs offered directly to businesses (200 business enterprises are now customers). And its third strategy involves …
Mysteries and Masterpieces
… In 2011, Harvard University Press celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library , the renowned series that … of the Bible: “If it is an ordinary day, as soon as they rise from supper, the brothers should all sit down together …
Issue: January-February 2012
Calhoun-Fall
… Peter H. Wood ’64, Ph.D. ’72, an emeritus history professor at Duke University and former member of Harvard’s … Board of Overseers, submitted this essay reflecting on the recent removal of the massive John C. Calhoun statue in … moment for Calhoun-Fall had finally arrived. … 22638 … The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a …