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The Long Game
Brian Ma ’23 [’24], who this year recorded the lowest scoring average of any Ivy League golfer—and the best in Harvard’s history—is quick to emphasize that he was never a prodigy. Unlike Tiger Woods, who was coached extensively by his father from the age …
Issue: July-August 2022
Allston Options
During the pandemic recession, it has been amazing to read regular Boston Globe reports about eight- and nine-figure venture-capital investments in biomedical start-ups, and oversubscribed initial public offerings for medical and biotech enterprises. …
Issue: September-October 2020
Labor Litigator
In a Hartford, Connecticut, courtroom last fall, Shannon Liss-Riordan ’90, J.D. ’96, was trying to prove that Ocean State Job Lot, a New England retail chain, illegally withheld overtime pay from its assistant managers. Eligibility for overtime, she …
Issue: March-April 2017
Update: Harvard versus Princeton
Harvard pulled off another late-game victory on Saturday, upending a charged-up Princeton squad at windswept, rain-soaked Palmer Stadium. Trailing 20-17 with 4:59 left in the game, the Crimson offense had a critical fourth-and-one at midfield. The Tiger …
“Social Justice in Linguistics”
Kathryn davidson’s role in bringing an ASL class to Harvard, on one level, was incidental. The students calling for the class needed a faculty member’s signature, and an ASL researcher happened to arrive at the right moment. On another level, it mirrors …
Issue: May-June 2017
Developing Data Science
Harvard plans to build a data-science institute in Allston to support research, education, and entrepreneurship in what University leaders call “a new discipline.” Data science is central to research in public health, the physical, social, and biological …
Issue: May-June 2017
Yearning for an Upswing
Rereading, while in self-imposed quarantine, the jittery U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos about the America of 100 years ago—a cynical, fractious, increasingly extremist place disillusioned with the rich, the powerful, and the media—produces a jarring …
Issue: November-December 2020
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvard’s endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.8 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Ethics and Human Cells
“Harvard has been heavily involved in promoting regulatory oversight” of the use of human embryonic stem cells in research, says Insoo Hyun, director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at Boston’s Museum of Science and an affiliate of …
Issue: January-February 2024
Yesterday’s News
1924 In a likely first for Harvard, mother and son Martha Brown Fincke, M.Ed. ’24, and C. Louis Fincke ’24 receive degrees at the same Commencement. 1939 Modern pedagogy is well rep resented in the Summer School: J.R. Brewster ’25, of the Harvard Film …
Issue: July-August 2019
Congratulations, Contributors
We take great pleasure in saluting three outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2015, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Spencer Lenfield A former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at this magazine, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Designing for “Changing Climates”
Tourists visiting the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris might be seeking a religious or aesthetic experience. But they often leave feeling woozy for other reasons. In the increasingly hot Paris summers, visitors queueing outside are doubly baked by …
A Man for One Season
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. With new quarterback Andrew Hatch ably managing the offense, the football team looked invincible in its opening game, a 34-6 rout of Holy Cross. Harvard then lost to Brown, 29-14, and played so ineptly …
Issue: November-December 2010
University Professors
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Stephanie Mitchell/ Harvard News Office President Lawrence H. Summers appointed two utterly different historians, both members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to University Professorships, Harvard’s most distinguished chairs, …
Issue: March-April 2006
Challenges on the Field and Off
Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14, in a sun-soaked home opener, the team downed Brown, 38-21, and came from behind to edge Lehigh, 35-33. The …
Issue: November-December 2006