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A Robust Decade at the Business School
Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—concluded his nearly 10-year deanship at Harvard Business …
Issue: September-October 2005
Scholars’ Haven
Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from Rwanda remains under investigation. Two years later, he still has not returned to his native country. Instead, Twagiramungu has found a temporary home at …
Issue: May-June 2006
Sexual Harassment and Assault Reports Increase in 2018
Disclosures of potential sexual and gender-based harassment increased by 55 percent from fiscal year 2017 to FY 2018, and formal complaints increased by 7 percent, according to the joint report of the University Title IX Office and Office for Dispute …
Defeat by Truth Is Victory
President Lawrence S. Bacow delivered a Morning Prayers address on August 31, following a tradition in which the Harvard president speaks in Memorial Church at the beginning of the fall term. He began by thanking those in attendance for joining him, …
Samantha Power and Libya Policy
The New York Times reports that Samantha Power, J.D. '99—former executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy , and now at the National Security Council—has an important influence on President Barack Obama's policy …
Off the Shelf
The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes, Lea professor of the history of science, and Erik M. Conway (Bloomsbury, $32). Having documented industry-funded campaigns to obscure the science explicating climate change and the link between smoking and lung cancer, the …
Issue: May-June 2023
Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly to Speak at HLS Class Day
The founders of Americans for Responsible Solutions—an issue-advocacy organization and political action committee focused on reducing gun violence—will speak at Harvard Law School’s Class Day ceremony on Wednesday May 27. Gabrielle Giffords, who …
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens remembers feeling like a door had opened in his mind. Having flown across the country on the kind of offbeat, open-ended quest that later would become a regular part of his research process, he was sitting in a church storage closet in …
Issue: March-April 2022
Theresa McCulla
Walking in Paris years ago, Theresa McCulla ’04 suddenly came face-to-face with small macarons (sandwich cookies), displayed on velvet cloth and dramatically lit from above in the shop window of pastry chef Pierre Hermé. “They were presented like …
Issue: January-February 2010
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies interact with people’s actual behavior, even at an anonymous population-level view, can help guide the decisions of leaders. Mobile …
Academia’s Absence from Homelessness
Harvard ’s Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH) is a rarity in the academic world—the first of its kind based at a school of public health, and one of only a handful of similar research centers at universities around the country. Almost all of them …
Harvard Survey: Widespread Nonconsensual Sexual Contact
Harvard today released the results of a sexual conduct survey taken at the University during the spring of 2015, and the results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public AAU (Association of American Universities) institutions that …
Cooperating to Combat Coronavirus
Ever since the earliest reports of a pneumonia-like illness spreading within Hubei province in China, the resemblance to the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003 has been uncanny: probable origins in the wild-animal markets of China; an illness that in some people …
How Not to Write about Minorities
When Viet Thanh Nguyen , RF ’09, was 11, he spent his weekends in San Jose on his family’s red velour couch watching war movies. One day, he turned on Apocalypse Now —perhaps an odd choice for a child who fled Vietnam as a four-year-old during the war. …
Self Improvement
The President and Fellows of Harvard College --the seven-member Corporation, the University’s senior governing board--has begun a review of its operations. As reported ( “The Corporation Changes,” March-April, page 52), the matters under examination …
Issue: May-June 2010