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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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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
Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—it should not let relations with Africa slip from its list of priorities, …
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, …
Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
Is private equity monetizing medicine at patients’ expense? According to associate professor of health care policy and medicine Zirui Song and other Harvard researchers, patients in hospitals owned by private equity firms suffered significantly more …
Issue: May-June 2024
Cambridge 02138
(Coach) Murphy Time Harvard Magazine does a grave disservice glorifying football with a cover story on Tim Murphy ( “Murphy Time,” November-December 2015, page 35). With overwhelming medical evidence that football causes chronic brain damage, how can …
Issue: January-February 2016
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
Three for the Road
Thanks to Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, three current Harvard students will do their research in England next year. Senior Jay A.H. Butler , of Eliot House and Paget, Bermuda, was named that island’s 2006 Rhodes Scholar. The history concentrator plans …
Issue: March-April 2006
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
For Sciences and Art
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown in these autumn images. The site of the Laboratory for Interface Science and Engineering Photograph by Jim Harrison The site of the New College Theatre …
Issue: January-February 2006