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Studying Zika
To understand the outbreak of a disease like Zika, and ultimately to fight it, researchers must work on multiple levels. There are questions of molecules and chemical processes: how does the virus infect a cell, and what components provoke an immune …
Balancing Mental Health and COVID Safety
There were stretches in the spring, sometimes for days, when Lucy Wickings ’22 could barely bring herself to get out of bed. Moments before scheduled class meetings, she would open her laptop and connect via Zoom, but keep her camera off, in a mental …
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Through 2021 , COVID-19, drug overdoses, and suicides were killing Americans faster than advances in healthcare were saving them. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco, published November 13, finds that the …
Honoris Causa
Six men and four women received honorary degrees at Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew Faust read the citations, concluding with the recipient’s name and degree. For fuller …
Issue: July-August 2015
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
AWOL from Academics
I recently started using an application that tracks my work, producing weekly summaries of time spent on each activity, such as homework, socializing, or eating a meal. I was surprised to find I spend far, far less time on my classes than on my …
Issue: March-April 2024
Harvard and MIT to Sell edX for $800 Million
Harvard, MIT, and edX announced today that edX, the two institutions’ 2012 joint venture into online education, would be sold to leading educational technology company 2U for $800 million. 2U, a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ, with revenues …
Summer in the City
Make way for poults. Visitors to Harvard Yard—and these days, there are throngs of them—often wish to capture an iconic photo: Johnston Gate; the Widener steps; John Harvard’s gleaming toe (about which, see more below). But a surprising number, from other …
Issue: September-October 2019
China Summer
Jinhua, a prefecture composed of eight counties in the middle of Zhejiang Province—six hours by slow train south of Shanghai—is hot and wet in June and just plain hot in July. Still, getting 13 graduate students working on Chinese history, religion, and …
Issue: September-October 2002
Ginsburg Discusses Justice and Advocacy at Radcliffe Day Celebration
When associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, enrolled at Harvard Law School in the mid 1950s, she was one of just nine women in her class. Only a handful of women had served as federal judges in the nation by …
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Can a healthy diet reduce cancer risk? In short, yes. Nearly 25 percent of the 18 million cases of cancer diagnosed annually worldwide could be prevented with better nutrition. But what dietary habits support health? At the Harvard T. H. Chan School of …
Urban Adventure Quest, Boston
Exercise body and mind this winter through team-based scavenger hunts in Boston. One covers landmarks along the Freedom Trail, and the other Boston Harbor; both pose puzzling clues and questions. Inspired by The Amazing Race television series (minus the …
Issue: November-December 2020
Cost of Attendance Will Increase 3 Percent in 2018-19
Total cost of attendance (including tuition, housing, and fees) at the College will increase by 3 percent to $67,580 in 2018-2019, up from $65,609 this year. The increase is notably lower than it has been in recent years (last year’s cost represented a …
How Not to Write about Minorities
When Viet Thanh Nguyen , RF ’09, was 11, he spent his weekends in San Jose on his family’s red velour couch watching war movies. One day, he turned on Apocalypse Now —perhaps an odd choice for a child who fled Vietnam as a four-year-old during the war. …
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