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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 …
University People
Press Changes William P. Sisler Photograph by Stu Rosner William P. Sisler, director of Harvard University Press since 1990, will retire at the end of the academic year. His tenure saw the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas …
Issue: March-April 2017
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
Lifestyle and Long COVID Linked
Could a healthy lifestyle protect against long COVID? An analysis of data from the long-running Nurses’ Health Study II by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers finds that among these mostly white, middle-aged females, those with five or …
University People
Vice President’s Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will relinquish the position next April. Berman, who has lived in and worked from Italy during the summer months since her appointment in …
Issue: November-December 2005
Hockey Highlights—and Heartache
National Runners-Up The women’s hockey team —under Landry Family head coach Katey Stone for the twentieth season—finished 27-6-3: a tremendous year marked by the Beanpot championship, Ivy League title (8-2), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference …
Issue: May-June 2015
Pallas Chou ’23, Senior English Address
Enzymes Pallas Chou ’23 Senior English Address I love enzymes. Tiny molecular machines, too small to be seen by the naked eye, they’re in each of our cells, performing important life functions like helping us breathe and allowing us to eat and digest …
Dancer Damian Woetzel Named Arts Medalist
Damian Woetzel, M.P.A. ’07, a ballet dancer whose career spanned nearly two decades as a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, is the 2015 Harvard Arts Medalist , the Office for the Arts announced Monday. Woetzel will receive his award in an April …
Sexual Violence in India’s Headlines
In recent years , news coverage of sexual violence in India has increased, but the Indian press’s coverage has serious flaws—including a tendency to ignore victims from underprivileged backgrounds and to print sensationalistic depictions of rape—according …
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 …
University People
Humanities Leaders Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt , acclaimed for his Shakespeare scholarship (see “ The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare ,” September-October 2004, page 54) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Lucretius’s De rerum natura (see …
Issue: May-June 2016
Behind the Scenes
Four decades ago , Blade Runner showed Sue Chan ’92 her future. She was just 12 when Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic—heralded for its stunningly detailed futuristic Los Angeles—debuted in 1982, and Chan would go on to a career as an art director and …
Issue: January-February 2024
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
Happy Returns
A s the punt hurtles through the sky, freshman Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19 stands at the Harvard 14-yard-line, 40 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage. In many ways, his return began long before the ball was snapped: he has assiduously watched film …
Issue: September-October 2018
Harvard Corporation Supports President Gay
The Harvard Corporation sent an email Tuesday morning to the Harvard community, including alumni, expressing support for President Claudine Gay’s continued leadership of the University. The statement noted that Gay had apologized for her handling of …