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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
“The Ingenuity of an Architect”
At 11 years old, growing up in Detroit, Kimberly Dowdell had an epiphany. She remembers walking downtown one day in the early 1990s amid abandoned buildings, graffiti, and broken windows. “People were living on the streets, people suffering in one way or …
Issue: July-August 2024
Building Bridges in Allston
As ironworkers assembled the frame of the University’s science and engineering complex in the summer heat, bridge-building of an academic kind proceeded, too, as Harvard’s Business and Engineering and Applied Sciences schools (HBS and SEAS) anticipate …
Issue: September-October 2017
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Through 2021 , COVID-19, drug overdoses, and suicides were killing Americans faster than advances in healthcare were saving them. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco, published November 13, finds that the …
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
Cambridge 02138
ADDRESSING CASTRO Thank you for Professor Jorge Domínguez's ironic and interesting look at the U.S.'s relationship with Cuba since the revolution came to power in 1959 ("Your Friend, Fidel," July-August, page 35). We have fallen all over ourselves to …
Curiosities: A Fantasy Trip
During a fall jaunt through the Berkshires, follow a bread-crumb trail into the imagination at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge. “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration” (through October 31) features more than 130 flights into faraway …
Issue: September-October 2021
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Can a healthy diet reduce cancer risk? In short, yes. Nearly 25 percent of the 18 million cases of cancer diagnosed annually worldwide could be prevented with better nutrition. But what dietary habits support health? At the Harvard T. H. Chan School of …
Financing Climate Adaptation—and Deciding What to Let Go
What will happen when sea-level rise, wildfires, droughts, and floods begin to erode the tax base that cities and towns will use to pay for seawalls, firebreaks, and other expensive projects that could help them prepare for climate change? Financial …
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
John Chervinsky
Photograph by Stu Rosner John Chervinsky Like many people, John Chervinsky takes his work home. But what this lab engineer takes home may one day end up in a museum. In his second career, as a still-life photographer, he places scientific bric-a-brac (a …
Issue: May-June 2008
Engineering Dean to Step Down
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, the dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will step down in September, he announced last week. Narayanamurti, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, cited a desire to return to …
Scaffolding and Science
Photograph by Jim Harrison Byerly Hall is known to tens of thousands of would-be Harvard College students as the home of undergraduate admissions. No longer. Those offices having been relocated, the building is undergoing stem-to-stern renovation, from …
Issue: September-October 2007
“Be the Voice of Health”
Mona Hanna-Attisha , Class Day speaker for Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is best known as the pediatrician, educator, and public-health advocate whose research exposed lead poisoning in the water of Flint, Michigan, in …
Erin O'Shea
“I have a personality that’s like, if I’m going to do something, it’s going to be done well, period,” says Erin O’Shea. (That’s why she gave up full-throttle golf. “I found it frustrating, hitting that little white …
Issue: January-February 2007