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Capturing the American South
A Long Arc : Photography and the American South since 1845, opening March 2 at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, is a sweeping survey of the region. Yet don’t expect it to “distill the messiness and infinite nuance of the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Forum: Doing Less Harm
T he United States has far higher rates of firearm death than any of the more than two dozen other high-income countries (among them Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom). In 2015, for example, children in the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Better Together
The New York Times described it as the “first rigorously tested insight into the biology behind any common psychiatric disorder.” I regard it as an exemplary demonstration of the unmatched potential of the Harvard medical ecosystem. Steven McCarroll, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Graduate School Doubles Paid Time Off for Student Parents
Beginning this fall, graduate students welcoming a new child will have access to 12 paid weeks away from teaching or research, double the current six-week benefit, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announced last week. “I’m very happy that …
Are We Entering a Second Cold War?
In a discussion of the Russia-Ukraine War hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Arne Westad, Elihu professor of history at Yale University, began with an overarching statement: “There is absolutely no doubt that this is, first …
Raising Voices
During the University’s traumatic fall semester, several harshly critical voices attracted outsized attention. Hedge fund financier Bill Ackman ’88, M.B.A. ’92, took to X to bash pro-Hamas students; assail then-President Claudine Gay; and declare …
Issue: May-June 2024
Harvard’s “Treehouse” in Allston
Harvard announced on December 14 the creation of its first University-wide conference center, which will serve as a gateway to its planned enterprise research campus (ERC) on Western Avenue in Allston. The timber-framed venue will be named the David …
University People
National Academicians David Laibson Courtesy of David Laibson In a year in which 40 percent of its newly elected members were women, a new high, the National Academy of Sciences announced 100 new members, including nine Harvard professors: Joanna …
Issue: July-August 2019
Bullish on Private Colleges
In our July-August issue, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton M. Christensen and his former student, Michael B. Horn, of the Innosight Institute, made the case that the intersection of disruptive technologies with outmoded or failed …
Issue: November-December 2011
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented its 2022 Woman and Man of the Year awards to Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman on February 3 and February 5: the former a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award-winning film and television actress, …
Martha Minow Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
President Drew Faust has appointed Smith professor of law Martha Minow dean of Harvard Law School, effective July 1; she succeeds Elena Kagan, now solicitor general of the United States. Minow, a member of the faculty since 1981, is described in the …
Brevia
Museum Management Jane Pickering —executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture since 2013—has been appointed Howells director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, reporting to Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine …
Issue: September-October 2019
Sustainability Steps
Last September , the presidents of Harvard and Stanford, Drew Faust and John L. Hennessy, wrote a joint op-ed in the Huffington Post that outlined “What Universities Can Do About Climate Change.” Highlighting their institutions’ “wealth of intellectual …
Issue: January-February 2015
Mysteries
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office The new spirit house at Adams House Darting a glance at the structure at right, avian visitors to Randolph Courtyard at Harvard’s Adams House might tweet with delight that so impressive an edifice had been …
Issue: March-April 2011
Allende, Bloomberg, Bush, and Stiglitz: The Honorands
During the Morning Exercises of the 363rd Commencement, on May 29, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on five men and three women—among them a preeminent art historian; a Nobel laureate in economics; an acclaimed popular singer; a former United …