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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
Dinner Without the Din
… After spending the evening at an unnamed establishment, hollering at fellow … Association, seeking guidance and maybe the names of a few of its 1,800 members who had successfully assuaged …
Issue: November-December 2015
Making Allston Housing (More) Affordable
… A January 22 public hearing to discuss the construction of affordable homes at a Harvard-donated … Honan-Allston branch library and north through the enterprise research campus (ERC, now under construction) all the …
Innovation at the Intersection
… success as inventors; few actually do. Lee Fleming, Weatherhead professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is …
Issue: May-June 2010
Epstein-Barr Virus Implicated as Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
… A team of researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) say they have discovered circumstantial evidence showing that …
Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises
… Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … exercises this spring. Given the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that interested readers … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2023
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
The Crimson Party
… Remember the giant sucking sound as the Harvard professoriate drained … folk that the University was said to be "the fourth branch of government." The New Yorker ran a cartoon showing two old …
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
The Bird Man
… “They’re very special birds, but they could go extinct in the flash of an eye,” says Gus Bodner ’89 of the native Hawaiian birds he studies. The Ph.D. candidate …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art
… both a time and a place,” said curator Rachel Saunders, at the start of a preview tour of “Painting Edo,” which opens today as the largest special …
Refreshing the Fellows
… The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full …
A Life of Adventure and Delight
… “‘Anita sometimes reads the newspapers,’ Ma said, and then became quiet at the absurdity of her words,” writes author Akhil Sharma, J.D. ’98, in “If … woman,” Sharma writes in “Surrounded by Sleep.” “It surprised him that you couldn’t tell, looking at her, that she …
Squirrely
… In the beginning , before there were squirrels in Harvard Yard, … absent from American cities. The present ubiquity of the arboreal rodents, who often seem to enchant … the twentieth century, as laboring animals were replaced by machines and dairy, meat, and egg production and processing …
Issue: January-February 2014
Poised for Partnerships
… The new dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been in his post for … in Allston, where the school’s new building will begin to rise this coming summer , with a probable occupancy date in …