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Omnibus Omicron Intelligence
Can Omicron lead to long-COVID? How durable is current vaccine protection against severe disease? What are the new, state-of-the-art treatments for people who become infected? Between four and five hundred members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) …
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
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 …
Education Executive
Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) new dean, has already shown she can handle controversy with poise. Three years ago, when she and other researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development …
Issue: September-October 2006
Nancy Coleman Appointed Dean of Continuing Education
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced that Nancy Coleman, currently associate provost and director of strategic growth initiatives at Wellesley College, will become dean of the Division of Continuing Education (DCE, the …
Harvard Launches Science and Engineering Startup Program
Harvard’s already impressive ability to transform breakthroughs made in University labs into commercial products that could benefit society, especially in the biomedical realm, took another step forward today with the announcement of a new initiative that …
Admissions Lawsuit, Round Two
Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard oral arguments in the lawsuit arguing that Harvard’s use of race in admissions discriminates against Asian Americans. The much-watched case , which was first filed in 2014 by Students for Fair …
Between Harvard and St. Louis
On the day of a summer 2019 car-wash fundraiser for the R.C. Striders, a junior track team based in St. Louis, almost everyone from the 20-person squad spent more than five hours in the sweltering sun. They’d qualified for the Junior Olympics and needed …
Issue: May-June 2021
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession
Matthew Cappucci ’19 has never exactly fit in, and at a bingo hall 40 minutes east of Washington, D.C., it is no different. He is so much younger than his adversaries that a nearby grandmother feels compelled before each game to tell him which bingo sheet …
Issue: March-April 2022
AI Anxiety
I recently copy-pasted an essay I’d written on Boston abolitionist movements into ChatGPT. “Chat,” I commanded, “please list three ways this essay is successful, and three areas for potential improvement.” The machine spat out an answer instantly, and as …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
Office for Faculty Development and Diversity Reports on Faculty Composition, New Family Supports for Harvard Staff
The office, created in 2005 after the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering issued their reports , has published the first detailed data comparing the proportion of women and minority faculty members at each Harvard school …
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
Brevia
Interim College Dean Gray professor of systematic botany Donald H. Pfister was appointed interim dean of Harvard College in early July, succeeding Evelynn M. Hammonds, whose service concluded at the end of June. Pfister has been dean of Harvard Summer …
Issue: September-October 2013
Bioentrepreneurship
The University’s encouragement of entrepreneurial endeavors now is three-legged: on November 3, the student-focused Harvard Innovation Lab (2011) and alumni-oriented Harvard Launch Lab (2014) were joined along Western Avenue by the 15,000-square-foot …
Issue: January-February 2017