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Are Super Responders Special?
As a medical student in the 1980s, Isaac “Zak” Kohane heard stories—from patients, mentors, and colleagues—of nearly miraculous recoveries from cancer. A patient given weeks to live instead survives for years. An experimental drug works exceptionally …
Issue: September-October 2019
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
On Wednesday, thousands of scientists around the globe—including at Harvard—paused research, meetings, and classes to take part in a daylong work-stoppage supporting the continued demonstrations that have emerged worldwide after George Floyd’s killing in …
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
Growing Pains
The film Rent Free, which premiered last June at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens with a shot of a sunlit apartment: white walls and hardwood floors, eclectic artwork, green plants curling up a staircase. White sans-serif text overlaying the scene reads: …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Outsiders’ Insider
Backstage at the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles, Franklin Leonard ’00 takes his catered sandwich to the green room. It’s his party, in a manner of speaking, and the table’s been set with beer and wine and someone else’s preferred brand of bourbon, and …
Issue: July-August 2016
News Briefs
University Professor Arrested Friedman University Professor Charles M. Lieber—a much-honored leader in nanoscale science and bio-compatible electronics, and chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology—was arrested on January 28, charged with …
Issue: March-April 2020
Harvard, Heeled
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report One day in the early 1980s , Harvard men’s basketball coach Frank McLaughlin got off the phone with legendary University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith, and could not have been more excited. …
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
Chapter & Verse
Dale Higbee hopes to learn the source of a comment by Archibald MacLeish: “We know all the answers; it’s the questions we don’t know.” Alethea Black requests the title and author of a poem about how life would be if we grew younger over time. The last …
Issue: January-February 2006
Jordan Bliss Perry’s Latin (and English) Address
Multarum Artium Magistri ( Editor's note: The English translation follows the Latin text.) Praeses Bacove, decani honesti, professores sapientissimi; familiares, amici, et hospites; condiscipuli carissimi denique, ubicumque in mundo estis, SALVETE OMNES! …
Time To Stand Up
“Making her debut here, let’s welcome the incredible Catherine Yeo!” I shuffled to the front of the room, an illuminated open mic “stage” in what felt like the modern-day American dungeon: the dingy gray basement of a fast-food restaurant in downtown …
The (Truly) Great Outdoors
Most of us have spent more time than usual at home lately. With spring comes the chance to branch out—literally—by venturing outside, even if it’s only into your own garden or patio. Spring also brings a renewed real estate market. If you’re hoping to …
Issue: March-April 2021
Brevia
Nobel Honorands Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart shared the prize in economic sciences with MIT’s Bengt Holmström for their work on contract theory. Hart’s insight was on incomplete contracts: a contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that …
Issue: January-February 2017
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
August Kleinzahler will be the poet, and Linda Greenhouse the orator, at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary (PBK) Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week, and in many respects the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors …
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 …