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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
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 …
Harvard Corporation Elects Shirley Tilghman
Molecular biologist and developmental geneticist Shirley M. Tilghman— 2004 Harvard honorand and Radcliffe Medalist—now has a new Crimson credential to go with her tiger-hued service at Princeton University, where she was president from 2001 to 2013 and …
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 …
Threats Foreign and Domestic
During a wide-ranging discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday evening, Joseph S. Nye spoke about the threats facing the country, the limits—and possibilities—of American power, and Harvard’s current “moment of crisis.” Nye, the University …
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
Harvard Men Keep Their Edge, Beat Columbia and Cornell
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Following the Harvard men’s basketball team’s disappointing losses to Holy Cross and Dartmouth earlier this season, analysts offered a range of explanations for what ailed the Crimson. Some …
Lizabeth Cohen Appointed Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean
Jones professor of American studies Lizabeth Cohen will become interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , starting July 1, President Drew Faust announced today . Cohen specializes in twentieth-century American social and political …
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
A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts
When the conversation turns to frogs, wildlife artist Bradley Scott Davis ’97 starts talking faster. “Now, this guy right here,” he says—pointing to a recently completed painting on his studio wall, loosely abstract and thickly textured, depicting a …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard COOP’s Major Makeover
Taking advantage of the pandemic-induced reduction of activity in Harvard Square, the Harvard Coop has closed its main store to accomplish a major renovation in one concerted effort. “We’re bringing it back to its bones,” said Coop president Jerry Murphy …
Wendy Lesser's "Threepenny Review"
Wendy Lesser ’73 is hesitant to say very much about the new book she’s been working on. “It’s a tiny little embryonic thing at the moment,” she demurs. But she’s clearly excited by the idea: a collection of essays about 15 now-dead writers who were her …
Issue: July-August 2022
An Intellectual Entente
“Stamp collectors” was the derisive term future Nobel laureate James Watson applied to Harvard biology professors involved in classification and anatomy in the 1950s. The co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, then in his twenties, had little …
Harvard College Delays General-Education Curriculum
Harvard undergraduates resuming classes for the new semester today may be surprised by the announcement, contained within College dean Rakesh Khurana's welcome-back message , that the revised General Education curriculum, scheduled to begin in the fall of …