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Students’ Teacher
As a teacher , George Dickey West ’72 lives “to learn something new every day.” He believes his profession requires “living with a clear head, without preconceptions”—which, he adds, “can be a challenge in the classroom.” He did not reach that classroom …
Issue: January-February 2013
A Tribute to Melvin Miller
Hundreds crowded the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the evening of June 22, donning their finest attire and nametags that read “A friend of Mel,” to pay homage to Melvin B. Miller ’56 , who founded The Bay State Banner in 1965. …
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
F rank Hu and Kentucky Fried Chicken arrived in Beijing around the same time. Hu, a recent graduate of Tongji Medical University, in Wuhan, had never seen a restaurant like it. Three-floored, gleaming, and distinctly Western in atmosphere, KFC proved …
Issue: March-April 2020
Meet the Candidates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 17. …
Issue: March-April 2022
Stories from Botswana
Statistics and journal articles do not begin to convey the human toll of HIV. Lasker professor of health sciences Myron “Max” Essex has seen that toll firsthand, working in Botswana since 1996. As a relatively successful country with a functioning …
Christine Lagarde to Speak at Kennedy School
The first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde , will be the speaker at this year’s Harvard Kennedy School commencement ceremony on May 23, the school announced today. Lagarde, who replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF …
Faust Receives Indian Welcome
Associate editor Elizabeth Gudrais reports from Mumbai: The world may be flat, with technology enabling robust international collaboration and commerce, President Drew Faust told an audience at the University of Mumbai today, alluding to Thomas Friedman’s …
Climate Change
Universities are among the most creative and powerful forces for shaping the future. At our best, we prepare students to devote their lives to causes larger than themselves. We bring together scholars whose insights help illuminate and address society’s …
Issue: September-October 2019
From the Field to the Front Office
A few weeks after her college graduation, Jessica Gelman ’97, M.B.A. ’02, landed in Israel, where she would spend a year playing Euro-League basketball. After her first practice, a reporter asked her “You went to Harvard, what are you doing here?” That …
Reenacting Early Action
Starting this fall, students will again have the option of applying to the College under a nonbinding early-action program. In 2006, the College decided to eliminate early action for applicants as of the fall of 2007 and move to a single January 1 …
Issue: May-June 2011
Museums, Making Their Way
James Cuno, Ph.D. ’85, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, was at the Museum of Diego Rivera in Mexico City, in mid March, when he heard that California governor Gavin Newsom had shuttered all non-essential state businesses and ordered …
Important Paper in Regenerative Biology Retracted
An important scientific paper in the field of stem-cell and regenerative medicine that identified a mechanism for awakening stem cells involved in healing in older mice has been retracted by its senior author, associate professor of stem-cell and …
Being on “The Bachelor”
One evening in the fall of 2021, a Harvard graduate stepped out of a stretch limousine wearing nothing but a doctor’s coat, red stethoscope, and red lingerie to match. Thirty-two-year-old Kira Mengistu ’11, an internal medicine physician at the University …
Scenes from a Tempestuous Spring
Harvard’s spring of 1969, covered at length in this magazine then and recently, was marked by some of the most momentous, divisive political upheaval in the University’s history. That April, student activists protesting the Vietnam War and other crises …
Existence as Resistance
“Guess who was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century.” Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Studies, prepares for the surprise on my face. As it turns …