Tag: McGill University

  • Arts & Culture

    Using the bully pulpit

    In his new memoir, former Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin recalls a small-town childhood, an attraction to medicine, and the ups and downs of leadership.

  • Arts & Culture

    A first trip, a career opening

    History professor Michael Szonyi recounts a career that began when he accepted a job at 17 working in Asia.

  • Campus & Community

    Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96

    Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hunting for rhythm’s DNA

    Radcliffe Fellow Godfried Toussaint taps computer science in a search for the evolutionary development of world music’s basic rhythms.