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Catching Some Rays: Good for Your Heart?
CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low Vitamin D levels had more than double the risk of heart attack, compared to other subjects in the study. Vitamin D is …
Faculty, Family, Diversity
In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to the dean on diversity issues has highlighted recent results in recruiting female faculty members, and some of the real obstacles to effecting change in the composition …
Issue: January-February 2007
International Investments
Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end of the spring term with the creation of a new post—vice provost for international affairs—and the …
Issue: July-August 2006
News Briefs
A Coach Cashiered On July 9 , The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe reported that Peter Brand, head fencing coach since 1999, had been dismissed. A statement released by director of athletics Robert L. Scalise said: “In April, Harvard was made aware of …
Issue: September-October 2019
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2019
DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 368th Commencement, on May 30, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on five men and four women—the first cohort of honorands to receive their degrees from the University’s new, twenty-ninth president, Lawrence …
The Modern World Reconceived
Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries , Saltonstall research professor of history Charles Maier’s new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? They are networks: …
Issue: May-June 2023
Bishop Redux
Some writers have an uncanny way of becoming more prolific after their deaths than they ever were while living. Elizabeth Bishop, who was born 100 years ago and taught poetry at Harvard from 1970 to 1977, published only four slim collections of poems …
Issue: March-April 2011
The Upward Mobility Problem
“When I started, I couldn’t even drive a stick, and now I’m shifting a ten-speed,” says Gary Jones with the sort of smile you hear before you see it. From eight in the morning to about four in the afternoon, the 31-year-old Jones is on the road, training …
Issue: May-June 2022
Dunster Deconstruction
Having practiced the art and craft of House renewal on parts of Quincy and Leverett houses, the College is now renovating an entire undergraduate residence . As soon as students decamped, the scaffolding went up, construction workers began stripping the …
Issue: September-October 2014
Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell is professor of English and an award-winning novelist, essayist, and critic. Although born in Zambia, her economist mother’s home country, her earliest memory, at age two, is of seeing horses for the first time on a misty day in her …
Issue: July-August 2021
Humanities Center Endowed by $10-Million Gift
The Humanities Center at Harvard , an interdisciplinary hub for lectures, readings, conferences, and seminars within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has received a $10-million gift from Anand Mahindra '77, M.B.A. '81, in honor of his late mother, …
The Irresistible Allison Feaster
When the clock ran out on the Boston Celtics’ first game against the Brooklyn Nets in last season’s NBA playoffs—a chaotic, glorious, preposterous win that would help propel the team all the way to June and the finals and a matchup with the mighty Golden …
Issue: November-December 2022
How Will Regulation Evolve Around AI and Data Protection?
Bruce Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times bestselling author of 14 books, including A …
Raj Chetty and Benjamin Warf Win MacArthur Grants
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded its $500,000, no-strings-attached fellowships, known as “genius grants,” on October 1. The 23 recipients include professor of economics Raj Chetty ’00, Ph.D. ’03 ( his controversial study on good …
Theater and “Treehouse” in Allston
Harvard has unveiled its plans for two projects in Allston: a performing arts center at 175 North Harvard St. that will house the American Repertory Theater, currently operating in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-owned Loeb Drama Center at 60 Brattle St. …
Issue: March-April 2023