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“I’ve read many academic memoirs, and I didn’t want to write another one that pontificated about my accomplishments, but about the process of how you get things done,” said Joseph B. Martin, former dean of Harvard Medical School, who has written a new memoir "Alfalfa to Ivy."

Using the bully pulpit

Former HMS dean’s memoir tracks ups and downs of leadership

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DateDecember 15, 2011April 16, 2019

“The rise of China today is a tectonic shift in world history,” says Michael Szonyi, “and I don’t think we understand it adequately. I also think it’s really important that scholars in the field seize the opportunity to try to document what remains of traditional culture before it disappears or is transformed beyond recognition.”

A first trip, a career opening

When Michael Szonyi went to China at 17, his path was set

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DateMay 13, 2010July 25, 2019

Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96

Memorial service April 13 at Mount Auburn Cemetery

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DateApril 9, 2010

“Evolutionary musicology” — the search for music’s origins — has traditionally been the province of anthropologists, but why not employ the techniques of information theory and machine theory to music? “Radcliffe is about crossing boundaries and taking risks, so I think it’s appropriate,” said Godfried Toussaint, Radcliffe’s Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow.

Hunting for rhythm’s DNA

Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

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DateOctober 19, 2009