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From Here to Timbuktu
… How Father Columba Stewart ’79, a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, … the short answer is: he had flown to the medieval center of learning (and site of a United Nations peacekeeping … Stewart isn’t typically that adventurous. Each day, he rises at 5 a.m., swims for 35 minutes, and then, fussy about …
Issue: January-February 2018
Post-Regulatory School Reform
… At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States was … a solid legislative footing. Political opposition began to rise against two of the waivers’ key recommendations: … and in competition among them. Private initiative and enterprise would quicken the pace of progress in this area as it …
Issue: September-October 2016
Harvard A to Z
… (Excerpted from Harvard A to Z , by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this … Press. Copyright©2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved.) When Raktaprachit Aab '13, A.M. '14, of Bangkok, enrolled in the College in 1909, the journey …
Issue: May-June 2004
Cambridge 02138
… A Report to Readers It is difficult to absorb how much the world has been shaken since mid March, when Harvard … and staff to work remotely: the pandemic and economic crises, prompting untold suffering; the U.S. reawakening to … widening socioeconomic fissures; and the pressures of a high-stakes American presidential election, conducted …
Issue: November-December 2020
Scoring Spree
… In their wisdom, the football gods decreed that the quest for … With two league losses apiece, Penn and Brown were out of contention. For Harvard, still unbeaten in Ivy play, the … none had clinched an outright title before the last weekend of the season. That feat was topped off by a 45-7 blowout at …
Issue: January-February 2012
One Small Step for Music
… In the summer of 1977, NASA rocketed two spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit. Their mission: explore the unexplored. NASA had already been …
Issue: July-August 2020
Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy: Why is Smell Such a Mystery to Scientists?
… Robert Datta discuss what scientists know about our sense of smell, and what big mysteries remain. Topics include … experimental approaches to understanding olfaction, and the role of artificial intelligence in olfactory research. For more …
edX’s Expansion—and Issues
… The edX online-learning venture, one year old in May , has … operating entity for the initiative, shows signs of both expanding ambitions and the interesting questions … are also members of the for-profit Coursera online enterprise.) Suggesting edX's international focus—and Harvard's …
The Morning Exercises, Virtual Again
… and a national reckoning with continuing racial injustices, the Harvard community carried on through a unique academic year, closing with a week of online class days, degree conferrals, and more. Two of … and in a nod to the scholarship at the heart of the enterprise, the annual PBK teaching awards—based on nominations …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Engineering Life
… S ynthetic biology, or the application of engineering principles … even create hybrid systems by linking them to non-living machines. Propelling the science forward are scores of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Exposed
… your knowledge, a high-resolution camera took a photograph of your hand, capturing your fingerprints. You might be upset. Or—if you were visiting Disneyland, where they already make an image of your fingerprint to save you … could collect; it didn’t apply to commercial enterprises like credit-card companies. No one imagined today’s …
Issue: September-October 2009
Cambridge 02138
… The Legacy of Slavery As a substantive matter, reparations … merited but unfortunately competing against the legion of other horrific historical crimes crying out for … fund the remaining House renewals….” The slavery projects arise because some ancient benefactors of Harvard, by today’s …
Issue: July-August 2023
Brevia: Harvard News in Brief
… by Curtis Dahl Victor Clay has been appointed chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), effective … Angeles County sheriff’s department, Clay served as chief of campus safety at Occidental College and then chief of …
Issue: July-August 2021
Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
… On the first Wednesday afternoon in April, Daniel Lord Smail … into pairs, to brainstorm about the characteristics of their families’ traditional meals. It’s a perfectly … safely at the beginning of the term, other problems arise. The number of first-year students will be at least 20 …
At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …