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How Planet Earth’s Trees Use Carbon
… What is the carbon cycle, anyway? Most people are familiar with the … heat, trees and other carbon-sequestering organisms help to offset and cool rising temperatures by reducing atmospheric … Managing Fires for Carbon Conservation As temperatures rise, wildfires in forests—especially in North America, as …
Barney Frank: "The Most Outspoken Man in the House"
… Having served in the United States House of Representatives since 1981, … to address the housing, banking, and automobile industry crises. Toobin ends by quoting Frank on the challenge ahead: …
"A Loomful of Hues"
… says. “Some are more practical in a city apartment than others, so perhaps that’s why weaving was the one I chose.” … somehow mindless.” She herself believes in the benefits of a broad education, but calls her time at Harvard “a sort of a detour”: a study of fibers and dyes derived from plants …
Widening the College Pipeline
… college.” A visiting admissions recruiter told her about The Posse Foundation, an unusual college-access and … top-tier institutions within supportive groups—posses—of like-minded peers. The selection process is rigorous (typically fewer than 5 percent of the applicants are chosen) and uses a “dynamic …
Issue: July-August 2017
Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage
… Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try … and the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion of 1807. "We were very surprised by how serious the students were about [the class]," …
Issue: September-October 2002
The "Great Good Place"
… for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had admitted me without time-consuming conditions. Somewhat to my surprise, Harvard, albeit with conditions of its own, did accept …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Rub on the Pub
… in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million overhaul of Loker Commons, the student space below Memorial Hall, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Two Centuries of Sound
… On March 6, 1808, six men of Harvard formed the Pierian Sodality: the direct ancestor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, which this season …
Issue: May-June 2008
Allston: The Killer App
… A quarter-century after the University first acquired land in Allston, in 1989, to accommodate growth, it may begin construction of the first academic facility there. At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on February 5 (as this magazine …
Issue: March-April 2013
The Zimmerman House
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … the interior spaces are joined together at corners, instead of by walls and through passageways.” These hallmarks of modernism, along with 50 built-ins, elegant geometric …
Issue: September-October 2007
A World of Literature
… The résumé of Harvard’s Bernbaum professor of comparative literature might create the … taking classes and concentrating in literature has risen modestly, bucking the trend across the humanities: …
Issue: September-October 2019
Global Reach
… Sujiatuo township , 30 kilometers northwest of central Beijing, lies directly in the path of the swiftest, most massive urbanization in human history. As incomes rise and tens of millions of people migrate from China’s …
Issue: May-June 2010
In the Hole
… Construction continued apace in early February on the foundations of Harvard’s first science complex in Allston, a roughly … initiatives, and the University-wide department of systems biology. Workers have been waterproofing the …
Issue: March-April 2009
“Outside the Harvard Bubble”
… Julie Yen ’14 wasn’t keen on skipping a semester’s worth of classes at Harvard to study abroad. Turns out, she didn’t need to. Yen was one of 20 undergraduates in the inaugural class of the Harvard College Europe Program …
The Faculty’s New Faces
… faculty ranks have, gradually, become increasingly diverse. The intersection of lifetime tenured appointments; no mandatory retirement age; a decade of very constrained growth; and the long time it takes …
Issue: May-June 2019