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Underhanded Undergraduates
… Their friends began to ask questions long before the … lifestyle" with more than $91,000 stolen from the funds of Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) while Pomey served as business manager and producer of the nation's oldest theatrical organization. On February …
Issue: May-June 2002
Jerrold Rosenbaum: Are Psychedelics an Effective Treatment for Mood Disorders?
… treatment for mood disorders? Jerrold Rosenbaum, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, discusses the potential of using …
Recruiting vs. Rights
… The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy … who's writing a novel on-line, posted chapters 4 through 12 of Part V ("Harvard—The Fourth Year") on his … member and freelance movie reviewer, debated the value of scholarly film criticism: "Does this kind of criticism …
Issue: January-February 2004
Creating Community, On-line and Off
… The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy … who's writing a novel on-line, posted chapters 4 through 12 of Part V ("Harvard—The Fourth Year") on his … member and freelance movie reviewer, debated the value of scholarly film criticism: "Does this kind of criticism …
Issue: January-February 2004
Leading Man
… as “an entertainer, a mere mummer,” primarily in live theater, for 40 years. As president of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), celebrating its … special-effect make-up and chemicals (e.g., smoke and fog machines). Most pressing, Wyman reports, “is maintaining …
Issue: May-June 2013
We Remember WWI
… To honor the nation’s veterans, Harvard Magazine is republishing Adam Goodheart’s remarkable collection of stories about the Great War, “We Remember World War I,” which appeared in the November-December issue of 1993, together with contributing editor Jim Harrison’s …
Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?
… There’s a kind of academic corruption that most people have … Not plagiarism. Not cheating on an exam. This is the kind of corruption that occurs when corporations and …
Rebooting Online Education
… This article was reported before students left campus and the University pivoted to remote teaching , effective with the end of spring recess on March 23 ( a huge effort highlighted by … funds and donor support to underwrite the fledgling enterprise. The hope was that MOOCs would: help educate the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Claudia Goldin: Why Do Women Still Make Less Than Men?
… still make less than men ? Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee professor of economics, shares the reason why working mothers still earn less and advance … couples? They too have couple inequity, but they don't give rise to gender inequality. Nancy Kathryn Walecki: Okay, now, …
DNA as Data
… George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal articles on IBM typewriters, not word … DNA and engineer genes, was artisanal. The small coterie of computer-savvy biologists were x-ray crystallographers, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Designs for a New India
… There are two Hyderabads. One, a historic city in the heart … two worlds rarely mix. Workers from HITEC City’s towering office buildings—emblazoned with their logos: Motorola, …
Issue: May-June 2012
Cambridge 02138
… AT ODDS I was dismayed to see the Faculty of Arts and Sciences mounting their protests … Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers, and Porter would be surprised to learn that they had been composing slow-dance …
Issue: July-August 2005
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
… Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies … population-level view, can help guide the decisions of leaders. Mobile phone location data can reveal large-scale patterns of activity and travel between regions. In this episode, …
Academic Harvard: The Inaugural Symposiums
… Visiting dignitaries from other colleges and universities, and friends of Harvard present for the occasion, were served a … science came together to discuss “Origins of Life: Surprises and Puzzles,” as members of the Origins of Life …
America’s Little Giant
… called her soon-to-be husband, just before she met him, “the great, little Madison.” She was about to turn 26, a … and had been left with their toddler son and a small amount of money. James Madison Jr. was 43, a congressman from … her. She accepted his proposal because he was “the man who of all others I most admire.” The marriage, she wrote, would …
Issue: January-February 2018