“I’m not a boy, but I’m going to be one,” Chris Edwards defiantly told his grandmother at age 5, when she asked “the girls,” including Chris, to come to dinner. “I’m not a girl,” Edwards told her. “Yes, you are,” his grandmother said. “No, I’m not. I’m a boy,” was his response.
The next year, when he learned that his cousin Adam had a penis and he did not, Edwards thought he would eventually grow one. When that didn’t happen, he said, “I realized something was terribly, terribly wrong. When puberty hit, I knew that my body had betrayed me in the worst possible...
Call it artificial intelligence with a human touch. This week, two California universities separately announced new centers devoted to studying the ways in which AI can help humanity.
USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering and its School of Social Work said Wednesday that they had joined forces to launch the Center on Artificial Intelligence for Social Solutions. A day earlier, UC Berkeley unveiled its newly minted Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence.
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) honored David Scadden with the 2016 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize for his work on the bone marrow hematopoietic microenvironment. Read more here.
We are pleased to make available the new Database of Prices, Wages, and Rents for Roman Egypt from the First through Seventh Centuries AD. The database contains the data behind Kyle Harper's recent article “People, Plagues, and Prices in the Roman World: The Evidence from Egypt,” published in the Journal of Economic History 76, 803-39, and can be downloaded from our Data Availability page.
Harvard President Drew Faust welcomed the College’s new crop of undergraduates during Freshman Convocation on Tuesday, urging them to embrace Veritas, with an eye toward inclusion and diversity, a goal of discovery, an openness to change, and a readiness to question assumptions and take chances.
Fast becoming a beloved Harvard tradition with energy to rival the annual Commencement ceremony, the eight-year-old event took place in Tercentenary Theater under sunny, late-summer skies. Friends, classmates,...
I traveled to South Korea to acquire and read materials relating to my Master’s Thesis about the relationship between historiography and political ideology in contemporary South Korea. My plans for conducting research this summer were to travel to various libraries, museums, and research institutes to find publications on Korean history and to examine state narratives about Korea’s past.
With regards to academic historiographies, I visited libraries and bookstores in Seoul. I found core works of leftist and New Right historical viewpoints: Haebang chŏnhusa ŭi insik (...
With the generous support of the Korea Institute Undergraduate Summer Research Travel Grant, I traveled to South Korea this summer and conducted research interviews in order to write my senior thesis for Social Studies on the political identities and activist attitudes of students at Korea’s top universities in Seoul. Immediately when I arrived in Seoul, I focused on first recruiting interviewees from members and officers of student councils. During Korea’s democratization period of the 1970s-1980s, students were the vanguards leaders of the protest, and many students were organized by...
