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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 …
Dancer Damian Woetzel Named Arts Medalist
Damian Woetzel, M.P.A. ’07, a ballet dancer whose career spanned nearly two decades as a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, is the 2015 Harvard Arts Medalist , the Office for the Arts announced Monday. Woetzel will receive his award in an April …
Faculty Tensions II: Battling over Benefits
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 4, a rare standing-room-only crowd of professors raised objections to two recent University actions they associated with the central administration. The first, concerning research that …
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 …
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
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
Vincent H. Bish Jr.'s Graduate English address
Four Lone Names “ Because it was illegal for them to practice religion, slaves would use a traditional kettle to pray. Prayers for freedom were often whispered into the kettles, which were often kept under floorboards of slave cabins to keep them out of …
“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
On Monday morning, March 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as spring recess ended but classes resumed with their students dispersed around the globe, exiled from campus by the coronavirus pandemic . Before the …
Legacies’ Legacy
If legacy preferences in admissions—an advantage for alumni children applying to college—end soon, historians will identify two 2023 nails in the coffin. The first is the Supreme Court’s June decision outlawing affirmative action in admissions. Because …
Issue: November-December 2023
Lifestyle and Long COVID Linked
Could a healthy lifestyle protect against long COVID? An analysis of data from the long-running Nurses’ Health Study II by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers finds that among these mostly white, middle-aged females, those with five or …
Advancing Leadership
During 2013, Michael J. Bush audited Professor Joseph P. Newhouse’s course on the economics of healthcare policy and worked with Richard Frank, Morris professor of healthcare policy , to better understand a specific social problem: how to cover the costs …
Issue: March-April 2014
Hats of Their Own
Years ago, “Happy Committee” member Nancy Sinsabaugh ’76, M.B.A. ’78, reported for Commencement Day duty at 6:15 a.m . While her male colleagues—in their top hats—entered Tercentenary Theatre “without even showing their tickets,” she recalls, the guards …
Issue: May-June 2013
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
Consumer-facing artificial intelligence—algorithms that adjust product pricing based on what they know about a buyer—could, in some circumstances, inappropriately take advantage of the public, argue a pair of Harvard Law School scholars who are assessing …
Issue: March-April 2024
“No Longer Eligible to Work at Harvard”
As of October 15, 97 percent of on-campus employees were vaccinated. By December 8, in compliance with the Biden administration’s executive order of September 9, directing that employees of federal contractors be fully vaccinated, Harvard is aiming for …