Search
“Unlikely Writer” Gawande to Speak at HMS Class Day
Atul Gawande —associate professor in the department of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital—will be the Class Day speaker …
Reframing American Art
In his curatorial debut at the Harvard Art Museums, Horace D. Ballard moves the dial back on the origins of American art. The 26 paintings in “From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire” (through July 30) focus not on influences …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee
The new year has arrived, which means the Sons of Confederate Veterans will soon march down Main Street here in Lexington, Virginia, to celebrate the January birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Two days later, a much larger Lexington crowd …
A Tragedy and a Mystery
A soldier who’s just returned from Iraq, unable to shake depression and violent flashbacks, ends his own life. A young mother, sleep-deprived and stressed by the emotional demands placed on her, harbors persistent thoughts of suicide. A 19-year-old …
Issue: January-February 2011
Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
Katherine Bradford’s color-saturated works often feature bold, fluid forms: swimmers and superheroes, or human bodies lodged within an amorphous frame of time and space. One recent painting, Mother’s Lap, offers softened geometric figures; one is …
Issue: September-October 2021
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 …
Mahadevan, Huybers, and Others Named MacArthur Fellows
Applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and climate scientist Peter Huybers have been named MacArthur Fellows. Mahadevan, who is Lola England de Valpine professor of applied mathematics, is popularly known for precisely explaining phenomena such …
The SIGnboard
The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 Shared Interest Groups; a full list appears at http://post.harvard.edu/harvard/ clubs/html/SIGdir.shtml . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this …
Issue: September-October 2009
Landmark Bio Breaks Ground
Construction began today on a state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility in a 40,000-square-foot leased space at the Watertown Arsenal, a few miles west of Harvard Square, culminating a several-year process of developing a Boston-area research …
The Renovated Harvard Coop
T he Harvard Coop finished its latest renovation project and celebrated its grand reopening on September 20. A few days later, in a Boston Globe op-ed, Joan Wickersham declared that “the renovated Coop is an embarrassment and a travesty,” because it …
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
Raj Chetty , professor of economics at Stanford and one of the world’s foremost researchers on economic mobility and inequality, will return to Harvard this fall. Chetty was a professor of economics at Harvard from 2009 through 2015, and his departure was …
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), effective in January 2009. Frenk was Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He succeeds Barry R. Bloom, whose service …
Dunster House First to Be Fully Renovated
Harvard announced today that Dunster will become the first of its 12 undergraduate Houses to be fully renewed under an ambitious, multidecade program in which the River House renovations alone are expected to cost more than $1 billion . Faculty of Arts …
Edgar James Banks
Wearing Arab robes, grasping a rifle, the archaeologist glares out from the printed page. It might be T.E. Lawrence, but this is a very different man—not a warrior but a canny entrepreneur: Edgar J. Banks, A.B. 1893, A.M. ’94. Views of him differ. While …
Issue: November-December 2021
Claudia Jones
Next to the enormous bust of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery lies a small stone marking the ashes of a remarkable woman: Claudia Jones. Born in Trinidad, she immigrated as a child to New York City, where she lived until she was deported to Britain …
Issue: September-October 2020