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At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
This is the eighth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, famous and …
Collaboration on Climate Change
Continuing a busy visit to the People’s Republic of China—following an alumni and Harvard Campaign event on Sunday and a meeting with President Xi Jinping on Monday—President Drew Faust gave a Tuesday morning address on the role of universities in …
Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
Young teens in poor countries often buy cigarettes one at a time because they can’t afford a whole package. But that’s still enough to foster an addiction. South African physician and former cabinet minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma saw this as a major …
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Neldal, and K. Barry Sharpless (who is a repeat winner; he also shared the 2001 chemistry prize ). The trio were honored “for the development …
Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within the Next 20 Years”…“Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work by 2045”…“White House Predicts Robots May Take Over Many Jobs That Pay $20 Per Hour”…“Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour”…“Why the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Extracurriculars
Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/ag_market.html These outdoor markets emphasizing fresh, local foods and regional purveyors run through October 25. In Cambridge: Tuesdays, noon-6 p.m. Corner of Oxford and Kirkland …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Climate Connection between Campus and Home
Often, when we think about the reach of the climate crisis on campus, we think about protests, discussions, and groups like Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, where I’m an organizer. But for a lot of us in the Harvard community, the climate crisis isn’t confined …
Issue: May-June 2023
A Special Notice Regarding Commencement Day
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of people wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are provided to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: • Degree candidates will …
Issue: March-April 2015
Can New Drugs Help Millions of Americans with Obesity?
More than 100 million Americans struggle with obesity, but one drug is poised to change the weight-loss landscape—not only by shrinking waistlines, but reshaping how physicians approach chronic disease. Ozempic (semaglutide) and other GLP-1s agonists are …
The Return of History
On the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, historian Serhii Plokhy was on sabbatical in Vienna, researching a new book about Chernobyl. He’d spent weeks sifting through documents in the archives of the International Atomic Energy …
Issue: September-October 2023
Addressing Big Questions
The ROTC Commissioning Ceremony , conducted Wednesday morning, focuses attention on a small number of graduating students (four members of the class of 2015) who have made an extraordinary commitment to service. This year, it was also an occasion for …
Issue: July-August 2015
A Laboratory for Mixing Art and Science
To David Edwards , McKay professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, the intersection of art and science represents a gold mine of creativity. Edwards has written a book about the potential for transformation and innovation inherent in this …
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
He was the eldest son of a shoemaker turned Universalist preacher. When he was 15, his father died, but his father’s message, “the gospel of inclusion”—that God loves us all, asking us to do the same for others—became his life mission. He became the sole …
Issue: July-August 2021
Health Benefits to Cost 7 Percent More
As the annual employee enrollment in health and other benefits approaches, beneficiaries—and the University—will find themselves in familiar terrain as they look toward calendar year 2017: The health programs will look similar to those offered last year , …
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President Alan M. Garber paused the proceedings briefly to “acknowledge someone whose generosity of time and talent has shaped and altered forever the lives of countless …