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Diversifying Diet
Diversifying one’s assets is useful not only in finance but also in diet, according to an October study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Though not many people have heard of the “portfolio diet”—consisting of plant-based foods …
Issue: May-June 2024
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Economic Mobility I applaud members of the Workforce team (“ Making It in America ,” May-June, page 29) for the “research- and impact-based” nature of their project. Potentially, the project has greater impact than disclosed in the article, however. If …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard’s Expanding Allston Plans
Last night , University officials presented the proposed first steps toward developing its “enterprise research campus” (ERC)—a non-academic “innovation” district for established companies and startups, as well as a hotel and conference center, together …
Ending an Epidemic
An effective vaccine remains the best hope for ending the COVID-19 pandemic. As deaths and economic damage mounted worldwide this spring, every reasonable measure to seed and accelerate vaccine development was being considered. By late May, more than 170 …
Issue: July-August 2020
Brevia
Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world economy, the Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de …
Issue: May-June 2003
Moving On
To accommodate Harvard Law School’s large new building, an existing garage and dormitory had to be razed. But three historic wooden buildings were saved, making a gingerly trip up the closed Massachusetts Avenue on the weekend of June 23-25—their weight …
Issue: September-October 2007
President Bacow’s Baccalaureate Address
First, I’d like to thank all the participants in the Baccalaureate service today, our readers, our chaplains, our wonderful musicians, our composers, everyone who’s participated. Please join me in thanking everybody. Well, I’ve waited a long time to say …
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2024 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 14, …
Issue: May-June 2024
Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
writer Mark Doty and social psychologist Sherry Turkle will speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the …
Learning How to Disagree
In the weeks following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Tarek Masoud, Ford Foundation professor of democracy and governance, convened a series of panels at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the history and future of the Israel-Palestine …
President Faust?
The Crimson went live at 11:57 p.m. on February 8 with a web report that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be Harvard’s twenty-eighth president ( www.thecrimson.com ). A Board of Overseers meeting is being …
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Scarcity and Poverty “The Science of Scarcity” (May-June) presents important insights into the psychology of poverty. But—unless I missed something—it seems to make a jump from the discovery that poverty leads to bad choices, to encouraging better choices …
Issue: July-August 2015
Presidents Xi and Faust Confer in China
President Drew Faust, visiting Beijing for a "Your Harvard" event and other University business, met on Monday night with People's Republic president Xi Jinping. The meeting, Faust's invitation to Xi to visit Harvard, and her planned address at Tsinghua …
A Culinary Journey
Cooking practices “can open a window into the lives of enslaved people and help us understand slavery and its legacies,” said Radcliffe Institute dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin on Thursday, introducing a talk by chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty on the …
How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
Thirty or 40 years ago, companies like General Motors and Chase Manhattan Bank hired their own janitors and clerical staff, not just top executives and engineers. Today, low-skilled jobs are often outsourced, with effects that are rippling across the …
Issue: July-August 2017