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On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Emergency
When he’s not practicing wilderness medicine—caring for climbers with altitude sickness in the Himalayas or victims of the tsunami disaster in Japan— Stuart Harris is a physician in Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) emergency department. That means …
Aloian Scholars
Eric Lesser ’07, of Kirkland House, and Lauren Tulp ’07, of Eliot House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars. They will be formally acknowledged at the fall dinner of the Harvard Alumni Association in October. Established in 1988 in honor of …
Issue: September-October 2006
Undergraduate Education Agendas
I. Gen Ed in the Offing When she became dean of undergraduate education last July 1, Amanda Claybaugh, Zemurray Stone Radcliffe professor of English, immediately inherited the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) longest-running, most pressing curricular …
Issue: March-April 2019
Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan with Boston
After more than two years of intensive planning and community discussions, the University has filed a 10-year Institutional Master Plan (IMP) with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), detailing 1.4 million square feet of projects that administrators …
Harvard Public Health Dean Julio Frenk to Depart
Julio Frenk , who became dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (as it was then known) in January 2009 , has been appointed president of the University of Miami (UM), succeeding Donna Shalala, who announced her plan to retire last September . UM made …
Coastal Banks Shed Risky Mortgages—Putting the Financial System at Risk
Warming oceans—and the storms and rising sea levels they bring—will have their most severe impact on the southeastern shoreline of the United States, from the Texas Gulf Coast up to the Carolina Outer Banks. Mortgage lenders in the area have taken note. …
The Blue Garden
In the Gilded Age, Newport, Rhode Island, became the summer playground of the American upper class. Vanderbilts and Astors built mansions (“cottages”) along Bellevue Avenue, each trying to outshine the others in magnificence. Yet, flying in the face of …
Issue: July-August 2022
Complicated Relationship
Freshman women officially joined their male counterparts in Harvard Yard's dormitories in 1972. But 25 years later, when Harvard College dedicated a new gate into the Old Yard to celebrate that event, many assumed the anniversary hoopla commemorated the …
Issue: May-June 2004
Sackler—and Beyond
In February 1982 , Harvard President Derek C. Bok called off a planned expansion of the Harvard Art Museums due to a lack of funds. Fogg Museum director Seymour Slive was devastated, writing that the cancellation “dealt a blow from which the museum and …
Getting General Education Right?
Following a review committee’s sharp criticisms of the undergraduate General Education curriculum (Gen Ed) published last spring, its chair, Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean Kelly, on December 1 briefed the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on …
Fixing the COVID-19 Swab Supply Chain
In the United States and globally, the inability to test large numbers of people for COVID-19 has severely hampered diagnosis by clinicians and the data-gathering and modeling efforts of epidemiologists. But the shortage does not involve testing capacity, …
Other Financial Updates
Harvard’s friends remained supportive during the fiscal year ended last June 30. Vice president for alumni affairs and development Tamara Elliott Rogers announced in September that donors had given $596 million, just $6 million shy of the fiscal 2009 …
Issue: November-December 2010
A Broadcast Cornucopia
There may not be another radio station in America that would air a show like the one WHRB (95.3 FM) broadcast in February of 2013: an hour and a half of music with no song longer than one minute. “It was the most stressful 90 minutes of my life,” says …
Issue: September-October 2015
Off the Shelf
For some serious beach reading: Maile Meloy ’94 returns to writing fiction for adults with Do Not Become Alarmed (Riverhead Books, $27.00). Rapid and absorbing, if sometimes schematic, it follows a family cruise vacation gone wrong, and charts the waters …
Issue: July-August 2017
Israel, Idea and State
Frankfurter professor of law Noah Feldman, a leading scholar of the Constitution, is also an experienced thinker about the Middle East (see “Near and Distant Objectives,” September-October 2020, page 35). His To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, …
Issue: May-June 2024