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Harvard and the Middle East War Robert Soto and Robert Park ( Letters, May-June, pages 8 and 69) are both very concerned that Harvard doesn’t care about the Gazan victims of the war that Hamas began on October 7. Soto wants “equal condemnation” of what he …
Issue: July-August 2024
Curricular Commitments
Departing Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean William C. Kirby has attempted to set the clock ticking for completing a revision of the undergraduate curriculum, after three years of study. In a letter circulated January 20—one week before the …
Issue: March-April 2006
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
Banned in Sparta
Think words and music: Rogers and Hammerstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, the brothers Gershwin. Sometimes, collaborators might not even have met. For example, works by Greek poets of the Archaic period (800-500 B.C.E.)—centuries before the Classical era of …
Issue: March-April 2025
Heather Henriksen
“This might be a little in the weeds , but trust me, it’s cool.” Heather Henriksen is warming up an impassioned (but definitely cool) oration about a University-wide push to get harmful chemicals—“flame retardants, antimicrobials, stain repellents, water …
Issue: January-February 2017
Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel
David Baker ’84, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington, has been named a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating entirely new proteins. In 2003, using a software platform he had invented called Rosetta, Baker designed a …
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 …
Yesterday’s News
1930 The Harvard Engineering Society enjoys an illustrated address on the building and running of the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River from Manhattan to New Jersey: the two-year-old Holland Tunnel, named for its first chief engineer, Clifford …
Issue: March-April 2020
History-Making Astronaut
Stephanie Wilson ’88 lived out nearly every child’s fantasy when she soared aloft aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery in early July, making history as only the second African-American woman to venture into space. The Pittsfield, Massachusetts, native …
Issue: September-October 2006
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) …
Pamelyn Bennett
When Pamelyn Bennett began working at the National Airport Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C., she checked in a foreign family whom she remembers as “very brusque—they just wanted their room.” When Bennett, now an event operations coordinator at Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2024
The State of Unions
“What do we do when we have the public on our side, when we have workers in motion, when we see people playing by the rules and still not getting ahead?” asked Sharon Block, executive director for the new Center for Labor and a Just Economy, based at …
A Roadmap for Reforming Civic Education
Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches …
Completing the Century
From photographer Berenice Abbott to labor activist Elaine Black Yoneda, from Wyoming governor Nellie Tayloe Ross (born in 1876) to Tejana singer Selena Perez Quintanilla (born in 1971), Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the …
Issue: January-February 2005
Harvard Kennedy School Reverses Position on Human-Rights Fellowship
T he highly contested public debate over the Harvard Kennedy School’s decision not to appoint a prominent human-rights leader to a fellowship last summer—publicized in recent weeks—has, today, been followed by a reversal of that decision. Last spring, the …