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Saying Good-bye
… someone always says, "Where is Aunt Marie?" She is gone, of course; she hates to say good-bye. I can't be like … every sleeping cousin, tipsy uncle, and friend of my grandmother's. There is a countdown of days until graduation in a … who is there--not because I expect her to come (she surprises me by knowing to knock when I need it most)--but …
Steel and Skin
… Rising at 60 Oxford Street is the University Information Services Building. Stepped-down … Dean Rogers | Partners Architects, is a model for the kinds of structures that will be erected in the North Precinct. … facility, designed by Ellenzweig Associates, comprises robotics and instrumentation labs, wet and dry …
Issue: May-June 2002
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Nine Scholars
… Tuesday evening , nine Harvard Ph.D. students shared their research in short, TED-talk-style presentations at the … can all understand,” said Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Emma Dench during her … group, whose convivial bonds were evidenced by the row of high fives they gave each other after each presentation. …
Science and Sculpture
… childhood home in rural New Jersey stands a series of his aluminum sculptures. Called Quantum Stream, these seven rectangular parallelepipeds ascend a grassy … is full of surprising objects: aluminum sculptures that rise nearly to the ceiling, whimsical metal books on the …
Issue: January-February 2007
David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
… committed with firearms are becoming more frequent in the United States. And the total number of gun deaths, a majority by suicide, is now on par with those caused by automobile accidents. None of this has broken the political gridlock in Washington that …
Michael Mina: Why do we still need rapid tests?
… Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools. Topics include using … holiday and winter season, the risk of indoor transmission rises. Could rapid tests help prevent surges as families …
Is Nuclear Power Scalable?
… Heinz professor of environmental policy John Holdren, who holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s department of earth and … needed to fuel a power plant) can easily use those same machines to enrich the U-235 to 80 or 90 percent, the …
Issue: May-June 2006
Mise en Scène
… A professor once advised me that I shouldn’t have possessions until I have tenure. “Then,” he said, “you can start to collect books.” I’ve given … felt like a catatonia patient on an IV drip of food and gym machines and single-ply toilet paper. This year, as a …
Issue: January-February 2017
Off the Shelf
… World , by Jack M. Balkin ’78, J.D. ’81 (Harvard, $35). The author, a professor at Yale Law School, turns from questions of … Angeles Times details the disastrous merger of those enterprises, and the even more destructive leveraged buyout of the …
Issue: July-August 2011
The Portraitist
… All family snapshots look alike, except to the people in them—and except, perhaps, to Elsa Dorfman, BI … tall and 20 wide, produced by a 200-pound camera that’s one of only six of its kind in the world. Then there’s their … the photo. When he graduated from residency, his wife surprised him with it—all with Dorfman’s aid and abetment. For …
Issue: September-October 2017
“This Beautiful Machine”
… Paola Arlotta is searching for the words to describe the clusters of cells, incubating quietly in a small room next to her … little experiments for us, sometimes silly ones, to surprise us in some way or to describe some concept. And then he …
Issue: July-August 2023
Arts and Sciences’ Inflection Point
… Students of learning and teaching at Harvard will find two especially interesting disclosures in the new annual report from Faculty of Arts and Sciences … through a joint MIT-Harvard Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines . It is examining circuits for intelligence; the …
Loker Lunch
… Harvard's new student-center-cum-food-court, spreads out in the reclaimed basement of Memorial Hall. Descend through the new brick and granite … and, for color, electronic signboards running the length of the commons and at the end of the hall. It's what the …
Mumblecore’s Maestro
… interview with Andrew Bujalski—in a chichi Manhattan hotel, the morning of the theatrical release of his latest movie, Results —were … and by the end, “It’s just not…conventional. I’m always surprised by that. I’m always rather shocked that what I’m doing …
Issue: September-October 2015
Engineering a School’s Future
… One hundred days into his new position as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and … cohort of professors and tenure-track faculty members has risen nearly 80 percent in the past two decades, to 85 this …
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Issue: January-February 2016