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Against Delta, Moderna Edges Pfizer, but Omicron Looms
A large-scale study comparing the efficacy of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19 finds that Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective at preventing a range of outcomes, including infection, COVID-19 symptoms, hospitalization, admission to …
Honoring Our Contributors
We take great pleasure in saluting four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2016, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Jane Kamensky Jane Kamensky joins scholarly prowess—professor of history and …
Issue: January-February 2017
2019 HAA Award Recipients
Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards, for their outstanding service to the University, during the alumni association’s fall meeting. Salvo Arena, LL.M. ’00, of New York City, has served in various roles since 2004, including as president of the …
Issue: November-December 2019
Professor Holdren to Be Nominated as White House Science Adviser
John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to be nominated as the White House science adviser by President-elect Barack Obama, according to several news reports. Holdren's website (which lists his current …
Scrubbing Supply Chains
Harvard leveraged construction of its massive new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston in order to coax building-materials manufacturers into removing hazardous chemicals from their supply chains, the University reports. Heather Henriksen, the …
Business for the Other Billions
Since late last autumn , Mira Mehta and Shane Kiernan have lived in converted chicken coops on a farm in Nigeria’s Nasarawa State—a two-hour drive, when roads are passable, northeast of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous country. On December 23, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Pins for Women
Tiny pins with their delicate metal fasteners still intact, some more than 100 years old, read “Votes for Women” and “I March for Full Suffrage” in faded letters. Some sit in miniature carrying cases, signifying, perhaps, that they once meant a great deal …
Issue: November-December 2016
University Names Goldman Sachs Executive to New VP Post
The University this morning announced the creation of a new position, executive vice president, and the name of the person appointed to the job: Edward C. Forst ’82, currently global head of the investment management division for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and …
Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
In this interview, Matthew Bunn , the Schlesinger professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the evolution of United States nuclear policy. Bunn has been a leader of the Project on …
Wage Wrangling
The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum wage for University workers of $10 per hour (later $10.25), corresponding to a figure adopted by the Cambridge …
Genomic Science and Society
Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, visited Harvard Medical School on February 20, one week after publication of the public and private drafts of the human genome in the competing journals Science …
Unsettled Conditions
The Tuesday of Commencement week, June 6, was radiant—perfect weather for the seniors to march from the Old Yard to Memorial Church, tipping their caps to the statue of John Harvard, for their Baccalaureate service, where Lawrence H. Summers, whose five …
Issue: July-August 2006
No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard
The British sociologist Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1958 in the title of a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy , which purported to look backward from 2034 at a dystopian United Kingdom on the brink of revolution. Young feared the new …
Issue: September-October 2020
Origin Stories
Primus is often captivated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ memorial minutes on the scholarly passions and personal crotchets of distinguished deceased professors. Those delivered on May 2 were intellectually mind-blowing: Pellegrino University …
Issue: July-August 2023
Behind the Scenes
Four decades ago , Blade Runner showed Sue Chan ’92 her future. She was just 12 when Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic—heralded for its stunningly detailed futuristic Los Angeles—debuted in 1982, and Chan would go on to a career as an art director and …
Issue: January-February 2024