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Imagine this: someone other than yourself laboring to prepare fresh Italian food, and serving it with a real smile? The joys of dining out after months of pandemic isolation have never been so welcome: “How do you like your meal? What else may I get for …
Issue: May-June 2021
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
Workers and Wages
At a time of national concern about stagnating incomes, rising inequality, and middle-class malaise, the University confronted contentious issues with its lowest-paid workers throughout the autumn, yielding the first strike in more than three decades; a …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2017
How to Protest Effectively
“Almost everything that we have,” said legal scholar and civil rights attorney Gloria Browne-Marshall during a Tuesday evening event at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), “somebody had to protest for us to have it.” She gestured toward the multi-racial …
Is the Law a Creature of Corporations?
How have corporations influenced the way law is taught, practiced, and discussed, as well as the very legal system itself? At a January 27-28 Harvard Law School conference, critics of contemporary law—students, attorneys, legal commentators, and public …
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Through 2021 , COVID-19, drug overdoses, and suicides were killing Americans faster than advances in healthcare were saving them. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco, published November 13, finds that the …
New Look for Lavietes
Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion , built in the 1920s as an indoor-track center and converted to basketball use in 1982, is being extensively renovated and modestly expanded. Construction began in May, and as the fall term began, workers had installed new …
“This Entire Campus Belongs to You”
Sade Abraham’s timing could not have been better. When she arrived at the Graduate School of Education for a one-year master’s program in 2017, she began inquiring about what Harvard does to support first-generation and low-income students. The first in …
Yesterday’s News
1920 The football team, playing its first and last postseason game, defeats Oregon, 7-6, in the Rose Bowl. 1925 Five hundred students appear on January 10 for a final dinner in Memorial Hall before the University reluctantly closes the 50-year-old …
Issue: January-February 2025
Faculty Honored for Teaching and Advising
At the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, dean Michael D. Smith announced the following annual recognitions for teaching, advising, and mentoring. Harvard College Professors Recipients of FAS’s highest honor for faculty members who make …
The Roman Empire’s Cosmopolitan Frontier
At its peak , the Roman Empire stretched from North Africa to northern Britain and was home to perhaps a quarter of the world’s population. The early Empire’s well-documented center in Rome, a vibrant hub of trade and communication, drew an ethnically …
Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift
Harvard Medical School (HMS) will make major investments in imaging capabilities for structural biology, single-cell sequencing, and drug screening—all underpinnings for basic and clinically applicable research—with the support of a $200-million gift, the …
Cranberry Harvest Celebration
Long before cranberries were corralled and canned to zest up roasted turkeys, Native Americans used the indigenous North American fruit for food, medicine, and dyes. European settlers followed suit, yet it was not until 1816 that wild cranberries were …
Issue: September-October 2016
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Can a healthy diet reduce cancer risk? In short, yes. Nearly 25 percent of the 18 million cases of cancer diagnosed annually worldwide could be prevented with better nutrition. But what dietary habits support health? At the Harvard T. H. Chan School of …
Honor Roll
We recognize four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2014, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Adam Kirsch Contributing editor Adam Kirsch ’97—critic, essayist, poet—has long crafted beautifully …
Issue: January-February 2015