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From Academic Misconduct to E-mail Investigation
… The investigation of academic misconduct during an … Generally speaking, however, if circumstances were to arise that gave reason to believe that the Administrative … the resident deans’ e-mail headers. Some confusion has arisen over different policies covering the privacy of …
Crimson Coincidence
… Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand … on December 17, 1903, eventually improving to a distance of 852 feet and a time of 59 seconds. Yet on the last flight, with Wilbur at the …
Issue: May-June 2003
Poet-novelist and Neuroscientist-explorer Launch Commencement Week
… and orator S. Allen Counter addressed an audience at the Sanders Theatre at the 225th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) … a poet and novelist who teaches English at the University of Michigan, read five poems, most of them drawn from her 2011 collection Space, In Chains, …
Cambridge 02138
… website regularly for breaking University news (and news of alumni ) plus multimedia material complementing articles. … for diabetes. And learn what Harvard experts think about the unfolding financial crisis —a different kind of risk. THE ECONOMIC AGENDA I was pleased to see Professor …
Issue: November-December 2008
A "portion of the People"
… When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's … friends and family members barely concealed their surprise, according to Dale (Rosen) '69, Ph.D. '97. "How could … everyone goes to church on Sunday? Where in the wilderness of South Carolina had we managed to find a Hebrew teacher?" …
Issue: January-February 2003
After Our Bubble
… Americans have not experienced austerity in a long time, so the decade ahead may come as a shock. Expect continued high unemployment, slow wage growth, the possibility of social and political unrest, higher taxes, cuts in … Is Different , a study of eight centuries of financial crises; see “What This Country Needs,” January-February, page …
Issue: July-August 2010
Francesca Dominici: How Does Air Pollution Affect COVID-19?
… How does the air we breathe affect our body’s reaction to COVID-19? … Early on in the pandemic Francesca Dominici, Gamble professor of biostatistics, population, and data science at … on scientists by government and media during public-health crises—when answers are needed before conclusions exist. She …
Conquest of the Air
… Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand … on December 17, 1903, eventually improving to a distance of 852 feet and a time of 59 seconds. Yet on the last flight, with Wilbur at the …
Issue: May-June 2003
Finding Work That Works for You
… be. This can be a blessing--or a burden. Some people like the freedom to switch careers or to develop a different … clients I see range in age from 22 to 68," she says. "My profession exists because millions of people need help … 'Here's how you do it,'" he recalls. "I was a little surprised to see them doing it now." Capello had, in effect, …
Issue: March-April 2002
Bioterrorism and the University
… There can be few higher privileges for the scientific … than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of people around the world. It is … with ordinary catalog items, like fermentors and milling machines, which are legitimately used to produce chemicals, …
Issue: November-December 2003
Emily Broad Leib: What Can be Done About Food Waste?
… About Food Waste? Emily Broad Leib, founder and director of Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, discusses how to reduce food waste in the United States and abroad. Topics include the confusion … are more government agencies or nonprofits or social enterprise or often kind of community coalitions and groups of …
A Family Farm
… season at Keewaydin Ranch, two ranch hands yell and swat at the cows—“Hey! C’mon. Git. Git in there!”—ushering them out of a corral and into a squeeze shoot. The metal compartment … required for both the ranch and nursery. Knotty dynamics arise, as in any familial enterprise, yet Alex and Amory …
Issue: July-August 2018
Differences of Opinion on Online Courses
… build and launch massive open online courses (MOOCs)—and other would-be contenders approach the field—evidence and … about how best to use such courses, the experience of learning this way, and possible applications of the … are a great unequalizer when it comes to teachers,” giving rise to a list of online celebrity professors who come to …
The Active Life
… Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet weekly with a coach, albeit “He does a lot of running,” Robert reports, “and we hit a lot of balls.” … chi, Pilates, and “aquarobics.” The fitness center features machines with air-compression, push-button operations (no …
Issue: November-December 2005
Realities of Empire
… Empires fascinate. Not only scholars, but writers of fiction, geographers, sociologists, videogame and movie producers. We historians ask why and how they are they formed: by conquest, surely, though sometimes … the theory in Jennifer Pitts’s 2005, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France , 2005.) …
Issue: May-June 2022