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Melissa Dell
Economics professor Melissa Dell has studied everything from colonialism’s impact on development in Indonesia to global trade and worker displacement in Mexico. A development economist, she studies countries her discipline once ignored: “In the 1960s, …
Issue: July-August 2020
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 …
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
Humans on Horseback
Throughout much of Eurasia, a single pastoralist culture that thrived between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago left behind an indelible genetic imprint still detectable in modern populations from India to Russia to Western Europe. How could a band of animal …
Likenesses
Peach state dispatch. W. Todd Groce, president and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society , writes: I recently made an exciting discovery. About 35 years ago, while rummaging through a pile of antique books at the Nashville Flea Market, I came across a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Major League Dreams
Among the children chasing foul balls, the firetrucks serving as a stadium gate, and the players devouring hot dogs 15 minutes before first pitch, Jay Driver ’24 treated his final game in the Cape Cod Baseball League just like any other. For that June 29 …
Mexican Soul
Like many students, Claudia García ’05 arrived at Harvard with a clear sense of purpose. In her case, though, that purpose was a little unusual: to start a mariachi band. She’d declared as much in her College application, sending in a video of herself …
Issue: May-June 2022
Historic Basketball Victory
In the biggest basketball game Harvard has ever played, the Crimson men made history with a convincing win over Princeton, 79-67. The Tigers came to Cambridge with only one Ivy loss, to Brown, while Harvard had sustained two league losses on the road …
Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?
Why do some people benefit more from exercise than others? The scientific literature on the subject points to people who seem to naturally exhibit what researchers call a “low response to training,” which means that these individuals can’t reap the full …
Issue: September-October 2022
On Campus, Concisely
Race Debate, and Defacement Harvard Law School (HLS) was rattled in November after black tape was pasted over portraits of its African-American professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting the University into the national spotlight amid growing concerns over …
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Issue: January-February 2016
Off the Shelf
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System, by Jed S. Rakoff, J.D. ’69 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27). A former federal prosecutor and private defense attorney, and a senior U.S. District Court …
Issue: March-April 2021
President Drew Faust: "Still Harvard"
“ We are on it ,” President Drew Faust said of the University’s financial situation during a July conversation in her office at Massachusetts Hall. And she said, with equal emphasis, “Harvard is still Harvard.” Those twin messages neatly framed her first …
Issue: September-October 2009
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Three members of the College class of 2024 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2024-25 academic year. (A fourth student and scholarship had not been named by press deadlines.) Gaurav (Dhruv) Goel, of Lowell …
Issue: July-August 2024
Optimizing Public-School Spending
Anyone who follows elections in her local community is familiar with the passionate debate about public-school spending. How much funding do the schools need? What is the most effective use of those funds? Studies conducted from 2015 on have found that …
Issue: November-December 2021
Football: Harvard 41, Rhode Island 10
Live long enough and you’re bound to see something new. And so it was that the Harvard football team alighted this past Saturday for its season opener in Kingston, Rhode Island, a place where it had not played in its previous 141 seasons. Making itself …