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Harvard Art Museums To Require Vaccination or Negative COVID Test
Today the Harvard Art Museums announced a new public-safety policy, set to take effect September 28, which will require visitors to show proof of vaccination or documentation of a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter. (Already, visitors must wear …
Doug Elmendorf and Karen Dynan: How Much Can the Federal Budget and the Deficit Continue to Grow?
Even before the coronavirus shifted the U.S. economy into low gear , demanding a massive stimulus in response, federal debt as a percentage of GDP was as high as it had been since the years following World War II. Simultaneously, given the nation’s …
Portfolio-Manager Paychecks
The compensation for the most highly paid endowment investment managers—the subject of criticism and debate in recent years—took on a different look when Harvard Management Company (HMC) released its report for the fiscal year ended June 30, …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Coronavirus Spring
Existential Q&A. A novel situation, like a pandemic, raises novel questions. For one, is an impeccable university campus still beautiful if no one is around to see it? In search of an answer, Primus walked across Harvard Yard early on March 24, shortly …
Issue: July-August 2020
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 …
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
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, …
Convocation 2016: “I Urge You to Be Idealists”
Each new Harvard class will gather together on just two occasions before they graduate—once during Commencement week, at President Drew Faust’s baccalaureate address; and at Freshman Convocation, for which the Class of 2020 gathered on a mercifully cool …
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
Academic Freedom and Ethical Limits
New technologies create controversy. They challenge our thinking, leading to debate and concern. When recombinant DNA was discovered, the city of Cambridge banned all work with the new technology. Already, human embryonic stem-cell research has compelled …
Issue: July-August 2004
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
Plumbing the Deep Sea
In a cavernous underground space behind Harvard’s Biological Laboratories, biochemist Peter Girguis frowns at the pressure vessel in his hand. The machined titanium cylinder, about the size of a French press, gleams as he works to release the cap, and he …
Issue: May-June 2023
New Home for ART Underway
Harvard ’s American Repertory Theater (ART) announced the start of construction on its new building at 175 North Harvard street in Allston today, heralding the project as a more modern, spacious, and accessible successor to the Loeb Drama Center, its …
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) …
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 …