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Harvard Square Old and New
Is there a neighborhood more steeped in personality than Harvard Square? There are legendary landmarks–from Club Passim to Café Pamplona–alongside new destinations like Bon Me, The Sinclair, and Saloniki. Commencement season is a fitting time to honor the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Sharpening your skills
Back to school doesn’t just mean a return to the classroom: Autumn brings plenty of opportunities for learning in the kitchen, the garden, or maybe even on stage. Looking to spice up your culinary repertoire? Take a dumpling- or noodle-making class with …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard College Outlines Fall Options—with Instruction Remaining Remote
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today outlined the three planning scenarios for how Harvard College might operate for the fall 2020 semester —from “minimal” to “moderate” to “full” residential density—and the health and safety hurdles …
COVID-19: An Emergency, and a Long-Term Challenge
In a mid-day conference call on Friday, March 20, epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch , a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the school’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics , emphasized five areas in which the …
Pudding Pots & Parody
Five years after the founding of the Hasty Pudding Club in 1795, in the dorm room of Nymphas Hatch, A.B. 1797, the then-secret society staged its first performance: a courtroom drama in which a club member was charged with “insolence.” This proved so …
Issue: January-February 2020
Time To Stand Up
“Making her debut here, let’s welcome the incredible Catherine Yeo!” I shuffled to the front of the room, an illuminated open mic “stage” in what felt like the modern-day American dungeon: the dingy gray basement of a fast-food restaurant in downtown …
Academic Allston, At Last
More than a quarter-century after Harvard began banking land for expansion in Allston, beyond the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus, academic growth there is reliably under way—and the faculties immediately involved are fostering intellectual …
Issue: July-August 2016
Decanal Duo
Kathleen McCartney Photograph by Dina Konovalovia/A Dream Picture Kathleen McCartney , Lesser professor in early childhood development and since July 2005 acting dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, was named to the deanship on May 16 by …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard and HUCTW Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
More than 4,600 members of Harvard’s largest labor union will not see deductibles or coinsurance in their healthcare plans for at least three more years, in a tentative contract agreement reached this week. The deal marks the end of nearly a year of …
Unconventional Venture Capital
Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, and Mark Zuckerberg ’06, LL.D. ’17, famously created their companies, now Microsoft and Facebook, as undergraduates. And then they took their ideas, and the resulting riches accruing to two of the planet’s most financially …
Issue: March-April 2021
National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard
On Monday, June 8, against the backdrop of national protests against police forces and recent allegations of a climate of racism and discrimination within the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the University released a statement announcing the …
When Fantasy Isn’t Enough
Ever since documentarian Lance Oppenheim ’19 first heard of The Villages, as a child growing up in south Florida, he’d been intrigued by the place. Often referred to as “Disneyland for seniors,” it is a sprawling retirement community with more than …
Issue: March-April 2021
A Harvard Senior’s Call to the Home Front
I submitted my senior thesis the day before undergraduate Armageddon. Monday, March 9, five days before spring break. I stood on the steps of Widener Library holding the 108 double-spaced pages I spent the past year writing and smiled for the traditional …
Linking Mental and Fiscal Health
Barely making ends meet takes a mental toll whether you are a retail worker in New Jersey or a farmer in Bangladesh. For many years, though, mood disorders were seen largely as diseases of affluent nations: it was assumed that the First World worker might …
Issue: May-June 2021
The $3-Billion University
Harvard came within an eyelash of crossing the $3-billion threshold in annual revenues and expenses for the fiscal year ended last June 30—and closed its books just barely in the black, after generating strong financial surpluses during the past …
Issue: January-February 2007