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Larry Wilmore Follows His Path
In the summer of 1982 , then-college junior Larry Wilmore traveled to Rhode Island to sell books door-to-door. Now an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and actor, Wilmore still thinks back to his summer working for Southwestern Advantage. He learned a …
Virtually Perfect
Summer is different this year thanks to COVID-19. But even though we can’t gather, shop, or dine in person doesn’t mean we can’t keep busy. We just have to be creative. These slower, languid days are ideal for home improvements. If you’ve decided to …
Issue: July-August 2020
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
A new study of ancient DNA from 727 individuals who lived in the regions cradling the southern half of the Black Sea, and extending into the Levant and western Iran, narrows the hunt for the origins of Indo-European languages—spoken today as a first …
Aloian Memorial Scholars
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Fariba Mahmud ’22, of Winthrop House, and Courtney Rabb ’22, of Eliot House, as the 2021 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars for thoughtful leadership and enriching the quality of life in their Houses. …
Issue: November-December 2021
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 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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Klarman Hall Breaks Ground
Under a dazzling spring sky, with just a hint of cirrus on the horizon—temperatures in the 70s, shadbushes and weeping cherries in full bloom, and leaves bursting to unfurl from every bush and tree on campus—Harvard Business School (HBS) this afternoon …
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