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...member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of several awards in his lifetime, including the American Mathematical Society??s Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1990, the National Medal of Science in 1987, and the Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics...
...house tutors. As the climax approached, actors deadpanned. Gertrude, the queen, drank a glass of colorful paper, meant to represent poison, and each actor languished into a dramatic death on stage. Actor Nora K. C. Flum ’07, who last spring was in the Winthrop House Drama Society??s performance of “Cymbeline,” a lesser-known Shakespearean play, said that, as an English concentrator, she wanted to support the tutors by being a part of the performance. “I really like Shakespeare,” she said. Non-resident...
...fund research into areas like Alzheimer’s disease, cancer genetics, and counter-bioterrorism: work that is socially invaluable, and likely achievable no where else. By jeopardizing federal investment into medical and technological progress, the Pentagon gambles not merely with Harvard’s institutional good, but society??s welfare as well...
...percent of those currently infected. Already the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa continues to see its efforts at economic growth frustrated by a disease that kills farmers, teachers, and businessmen in the prime of their working lives. And HIV/AIDS reserves an especially cruel toll for society??s most vulnerable. Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than...
...students,” a 2002 Harvard handbook for alumni interviewers underscores this idea of national import: “The Committee seeks to attract these students because of how much a Harvard education might change an individual’s life—and the life of our society??for the better...