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"Secrecy": Screening This Wednesday
Secrecy , a documentary directed by Pellegrino University Professor Peter Galison and Arnheim lecturer on filmmaking Robb Moss, screens on Wednesday evening, February 18, at Austin Hall, Harvard Law School (HLS)—complete with free popcorn and soda, …
Shruthi Kumar ’24, Senior English Address: “The Power of Not Knowing”
As prepared for delivery. For Kumar’s additional remarks, please read the accompanying article . The Power of Not Knowing Today, we are celebrated for what we know. In fact, for most of our lives, we’ve learned to feel a sense of accomplishment from the …
Tall Tales
In her first book , Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow—offered fix-it tips for "the repair-impaired." Cohen's second book— The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, with a December 2008 release date—promises "a …
“You Need to Move”
Robert Verchick, J.D. ’89, professes environmental law at Loyola University and is a senior fellow in disaster resilience at Tulane—both in New Orleans, providing an up-close-and-personal view of the threats from climate change: rising seas, more powerful …
Issue: July-August 2023
Allston Land Company Leads Harvard Commercial Development
The University today unveiled a nascent Allston land company (ALC), a wholly owned subsidiary with a new structure and leadership—notably, former Massachusetts Port Authority chief executive Thomas P. Glynn, who will be CEO—focused on Harvard’s plans for …
Building Community
Behind every discussion in late October’s wide-ranging conference at Harvard on the future of research universities—design and architecture, digital infrastructure and online learning, student curricula and faculty collaborations, partnerships with …
Dutch Discipline, American Grit
Harvard hadn’t beaten Princeton in 22 years. But last October, in Tjerk van Herwaarden’s fifth season as the Crimson field-hockey coach, his team had a chance to break the curse. The Crimson traveled to Princeton on a six-game winning streak, with a 4-0 …
Issue: September-October 2017
Early-Retirement Program and Other Cost-Cutting Measures
The University on February 10 unveiled a voluntary early-retirement program for qualifying staff members. In a broadcast e-mail, Marilyn Hausammann, vice president for human resources, noted that "staff members who are age 55 and over, have 10 or more …
Engineering an Internal Clock
Non-scientists generally think of “circadian clock” as a metaphoric term. There’s nothing literally ticking away inside the human body, helping align it to the regular cycle of day and night. But synthetic biologists from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and …
The Ethanol Illusion
Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) amounts to more than 140 billion gallonsclose to 500 gallons for every man, woman, and child in the country. With gasoline prices up by almost a third over the past …
Issue: November-December 2006
Jens Meierhenrich
A very long bookshelf in Jens Meierhenrich’s Harvard office holds a complete transcript of the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals, in 42 volumes. “I had to break the bank to buy them,” he says. But these are essential references for the German-born, …
Issue: July-August 2006
The College within the University
D. Ronald Daniel : There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the whole University. Henry obviously can speak to this, but there was a time in Neil’s era, for example—and Neil had …
Issue: May-June 2006
Military Recruiting Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military recruiting on their campuses. The 8-0 opinion (Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not participate) upheld the Solomon …
Issue: May-June 2006
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
Report to Readers
January 2023 In challenging times —pandemic and inflation, polarized politics, the horrors of war in Europe— Harvard’s work matters more than ever . Discovering the biological mechanisms that lead to novel vaccines. Exploring the histories and cultures …
Issue: January-February 2023