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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
Harvard Portrait: Judith Grant Long
“Like most city planners, I’m a city planner and something else,” says Judith Grant Long, M.D.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’02, RI ’12, associate professor of urban planning at the Graduate School of Design . The “something else” involves sports and finance: once …
Issue: September-October 2013
Harvard Single-Gender Social-Club Rules Rescinded
The University announced Monday that in light of seemingly insuperable legal challenges, it is rescinding its policy on unregulated single-gender social organizations (USGSOs: the undergraduate final clubs, fraternities, and sororities) . The policy was …
Michelle A. Williams Appointed Harvard Public Health Dean
Michelle A. Williams has been appointed dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (SPH), filling the vacancy created when Julio Frenk departed last summer to assume the presidency of the University of Miami. Williams will be familiar to many …
A Life with Lycaenids
At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we find in kitchens, but the Madagascar hissing roach, a blackish-brown insect "the size of a baby's fist," which …
Harvard Magazine Scavenger Hunt Prize Rules
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A purchase will not improve chances of winning. OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHO ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AS OF THE DATE …
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
A Year of “Good Progress”
Assessing the academic year now drawing to a close, William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said today in one of his periodic briefings on the governing boards’ work, “One of the most critical things this year was the first year of our …
Spaces for Art, People, and Light
This winter, the entire Gund Hall lobby of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) was given over to various depictions, commentaries, and celebrations of the Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which opened in November. Its designer …
Issue: May-June 2012
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. …
Fixing Foreign Policy
This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Can American foreign policy be fixed? Whether the alarms are caused by our …
Issue: July-August 2006
Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators
The Museum of Fine Arts reopened for in-person visits this fall, and is celebrating its 150 th anniversary with three distinct shows. The major exhibition, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” (October 18-May 16) , gathers more than …
Issue: November-December 2020
Hoops: "Inadvertent" Violation
The Ivy League has announced that Harvard will self-impose recruiting limits for the 2010-11 academic year after acknowledging an inadvertent "secondary" violation of the NCAA's policies of recruitment of prospective athletes. Three years ago, assistant …
Three Harvardians among Time’s 100
Time ma gazine's annual "Time 100" issue, which lists 100 people "who most affect the world" includes three Harvard faculty members. One is Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel investigating the …
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