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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
“Neither Comfort nor Cover”
In a February message to the University community, President Lawrence S. Bacow announced that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take seriously her complaints concerning sexual harassment …
Issue: May-June 2021
Brevia
Merkel in May Harvard’s guest speaker following the Commencement exercises on May 30 will be Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany since 2005. President Lawrence S. Bacow called her “one of the most widely admired and broadly influential statespeople of …
Issue: March-April 2019
Of Ants and Earth
Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997, Wilson—the father of sociobiology and biophilia, the most acute student of ants among contemporary scholars, …
Issue: March-April 2003
Alumni News
Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize two seniors who have made unique …
Issue: November-December 2002
In Search of the Social Microbiome
The microbial flora that inhabits the gut, skin, lung, and oral cavity of humans and other animals is thought to play a critical role in regulating metabolism and immunity. Any disruption or imbalance in that mix, a growing body of literature suggests, …
Issue: September-October 2024
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
Attention to Detail
On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, interspersed amid Michelangelo’s famous frescoes—God’s fingertip reaching out toward Adam’s, the sun and planets coming into creation, Adam and Eve banished from Eden—is a series of 10 bronze-painted medallions …
Issue: March-April 2021
It’s “Not the Earth that Needs Fixing”
Speaking at the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s Class Day, climate activist Karenna Gore ’95 noted the “perfect design” of the planet earth. “Well-located, with a good site and orientation,” she said, with plenty of water and land to support …
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Massachusetts Hall , for many people, is Harvard. It guides visitors through Johnston Gate into what is now Harvard Yard. Its compact design—pleasingly proportioned Early Georgian red brick with white trim, devoid of frills—defines the architectural idiom …
Issue: July-August 2020
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 …
A President Mended, A University Challenged
President Lawrence S. Bacow, recovered from COVID-19, spoke about his condition, and Harvard’s, during a telephone conversation on Friday, April 3, from his official residence, Elmwood. He has been working there since March 14, according to his …
Leaning into Winter
Standing outside Foam Brewers and gazing across parklands and a pedestrian path that skirts the lake, it’s hard to imagine that the land was once packed with abandoned mills and petroleum tanks. “In the ’70s and ’80s, the Burlington waterfront was an …
Issue: November-December 2022
AI and Adversarial Attacks
The privacy and security issues surrounding big data, the lifeblood of artificial intelligence, are well known: large streams and pools of data make fat targets for hackers. AI systems have an additional vulnerability: inputs can be manipulated in small …
Issue: January-February 2019
A New Face of American Evangelicalism
Here's how Walter Kim, Ph.D. ’07, tells the short version of his parents’ migration. After the Korean War, his father escaped communist southern China by crossing the Taedong River hidden inside a barrel. He got to Seoul, where he met and married a young …
Issue: July-August 2023