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American Solidarity
Like many Americans during this fractious election year, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy ’76 has been focused on politics and the state of the country. “We can idealize, as if times in the past were all graced with tremendous solidarity,” he says. “But I think …
Issue: May-June 2024
What Happens to Harvard’s Workers?
Update, March 29, 2020: Harvard announced Friday that it would continue to provide pay and benefits to its direct employees, including those who work part-time, as well as to contract workers, through May 28. “We applaud Harvard for doing the right …
Summer Undergraduate Fellowship
The summer Undergraduate Fellowship provides summer support for a student to join Harvard Magazine’ s editorial staff as a reporter and writer, while also receiving an introduction to the business aspects of magazine operations. Current Harvard …
The Future of Tuberculosis
Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one in 10 …
Harvard Seeks Partner for Enterprise Research Campus
On Friday, The Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC ), the entity responsible for developing the University’s “Enterprise Research Campus” (ERC) commercial zone, plans to send a request for proposal (RFP) to developers nationwide. [ Corrected June 14, …
Can Memory Be Related to Creative Cognition?
Fuhgeddaboudit! Or maybe (and as many of us prefer) don’t. As it turns out, “episodic memory”—the ability to relive specific moments from past experiences—may be related to a person’s creative capacity. “Memory is not just for going back into the past …
Seafaring America
“There are people who come to Mystic just so they can get stuck in traffic at the drawbridge,” says historian Nancy Steenburg ’72, a resident of the picturesque Connecticut town since 1980. The captivating bascule bridge that connects to the village …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Receives $400-Million Endowment Gift
John A. Paulson, M.B.A. ’80, has given a $400-million endowment gift to Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)—the largest in University history, and the second enormous endowment gift, which bears naming rights, to a Harvard school …
Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn
“In 1999, I was like, ‘I’m going to be a storm chaser,’” says Harvard’s lead piano technician Mariana Quinn, who oversees the maintenance of the University’s more than 200 pianos. Although her father was a piano technician and musician, she had no desire …
Issue: July-August 2022
Growing Pains
The film Rent Free, which premiered last June at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens with a shot of a sunlit apartment: white walls and hardwood floors, eclectic artwork, green plants curling up a staircase. White sans-serif text overlaying the scene reads: …
Issue: January-February 2025
“Seeking Strange Flowers”
As tales of adventure go , his had it all: treacherous passages through snow-covered mountains; escapes from gun-wielding marauders; grand dinners alongside tribal princes; and religious rituals virtually unknown to the outside world. In 1924, Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2015
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 …
Goldie Named Director of Harvard Institute for Global Health
Sue J. Goldie , Lee professor of public health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), is the new faculty director of the Harvard Institute for Global Health (HIGH), President Drew Faust …
Brevia
Her Honor, Honored The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, returns to campus to receive the Radcliffe Medal on Radcliffe Day, May 29. The ceremony will be preceded by a panel on the Roberts Supreme …
Issue: March-April 2015
Balanced Budget, Benefits Battle
Following two years of modest deficits, Harvard closed its books on fiscal year 2014, which ended last June 30, some $2.7 million in the black: operating revenue increased 4.8 percent to $4.409 billion and operating expenses rose 3.9 percent to $4.406 …
Issue: January-February 2015