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Is the Supreme Court’s Role Undemocratic?
… 1906, LL.D. ’56, was a titan as a Harvard Law School professor for 25 years in the early twentieth century. For the next 23 years, until he … decades following World War II, Brennan wrote, when “the rise of mass education and mass media of communication” …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard College Admission Yield Rises to 81 Percent
… Harvard College announced today that nearly 81 percent of students admitted to the class of 2016, enrolling this coming August, had decided … themselves as undecided—a fraction that, perhaps, will rise as those new Harvard undergraduates take in unexplored …
The Week’s Events
… and orator Joyce Carol Oates. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2011 at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class picture, … School Commencement Address by Kolokotrones University Professor Paul Farmer, M.D. ’88, Ph.D. ’90, followed by a …
Issue: May-June 2011
Soul Beyond the Skin
… years, documentary filmmaker Julie Mallozzi ’92 had learned of every fateful turn in Lalita Bharvani’s life—her … skin with white; her battle with ovarian cancer; and, out of nowhere, heart failure. But now, for the first time, Mallozzi wanted to turn off the camera. …
Issue: May-June 2013
Expanding the Mind
… M.D. ’66, and his wife, Susan Gottsegen Neisuler, joined the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) a decade ago, it soon became “the centerpiece of our lives,” he says. “It is not only a place to study and teach, but a community of enduring friendships, group trips abroad, music and art …
Issue: September-October 2014
Could Regenerative Biology Work in Humans?
… Chop a three-banded panther worm in half, and the head and tail will swirl around … and almost indistinguishable worms. Loeb associate professor of the natural sciences Mansi Srivastava has studied … progress toward identifying the cellular lineage that gives rise to stem cells during the worm’s early development. “We …
Issue: July-August 2021
Behind the Scenes
… visuals for films like Colossal and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings . But Scott’s film didn’t awaken in her the … trouble.” As art director for films like Gone Girl , 300: Rise of an Empire , Shopgirl , Punch-Drunk Love , and Love & …
Issue: January-February 2024
Anatomy as Entertainment
… Charles G. Gross ’57, professor of psychology at Princeton, studies visual … popularly. In a second collection of essays, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience (MIT, … no royal patronage of the arts. Furthermore, due to the rise of Calvinism, the Church no longer supported the arts. …
Issue: January-February 2010
Voltage, Cheap and Dirty
… Call it the high-voltage version of the law of unintended … as prices and market barriers fall, demand for power will rise. Electricity produced by coal plants--located primarily …
“Hi” to the Harvard Innovation Lab
… The Harvard Innovation Lab —“Hi” in its cheery logo (the … dedicated today, 13 months after the announcement of plans for the facility . Adjacent to the Harvard Business … to incubation and mentoring of potential new enterprises. So far, he noted, 15 entrepreneurs and experts in …
Saluting the 2022 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Faust on Higher Education: Knowledge and “The Living of a Life”
… Harvard President Drew Faust, speaking at Robsham Theater at Boston College and receiving that institution’s … Sesquicentennial Medal, used the occasion to make some of her most expansive remarks on the role and potential of … and engineering, and for technologically enabled new enterprises—witness the fledgling iLab and the president's …
Of Rain and Rivers
… It was a dark and stormy night. Rain fell steadily on rooftops, down gutters, along streets and sidewalks. It poured into drains, where it joined the current already rushing through the pipes beneath the … streets. Invisibly, the rain water became a nasty cocktail of toxins as it flowed along. The combination of rain and …
Issue: January-February 2003
The Summers Scoop
… As an extra announcing the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University's next president rolled off the presses of the Harvard Crimson on Friday, March 9, …
Here Comes the Sun
… The sun is shining, temps are rising, and normalcy seems … miles away from stress when you’re riding waves courtesy of Cinnamon Rainbows Surf Company, which offers group surf lessons and rentals ( …
Issue: July-August 2021