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Christina Gao: No Regrets
Christina Gao ’16-17 used to be a skater first, a student second. Ever since her parents signed her up for figure-skating lessons at age seven, her life has been as much of a balancing act as the sport itself. Growing up, the slender girl from Cincinnati …
The Tiger Daughter, Intact
Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld ’18 was once considered one of the most abused children in the Western world. A main character in her mother’s bestselling parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , Lulu starred in many anecdotes that drew slings and arrows …
Cornering COVID-19
Only immunity can bring an end to the current pandemic—whether through vaccination or the potentially deadly ordeal of infection. Unfortunately, it’s not a given that either a bout of COVID-19, or any of the experimental vaccines now in development, will …
Issue: July-August 2020
The Poet of Old Age
When poets die young, youthfulness comes to seem like the essence of their work, the thing they were born to write about. If John Keats hadn’t died at 25 of tuberculosis, he might have gone on to write great poems about marriage, parenthood, and middle …
Issue: January-February 2022
“To Heal and to Help”
Perhaps more than any other group of graduates on Thursday, the new doctors receiving their degrees from Harvard Medical School (HMS) stand at the edge of a precipice. They will enter their profession in the midst of a global pandemic, for which there is …
Being Black at Work
Diversity, equity, inclusion: these are the watchwords for companies hoping to foster the best talent, regardless of race. But do their efforts, like anti-bias workshops meant to train employees to recognize their own prejudices, really help minorities …
Issue: March-April 2022
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
Masha Gessen seemed to become famous in the United States for the essay “ Autocracy: Rules for Survival ,” published two days after the 2016 presidential election in The New York Review of Books. The Russian-American journalist and author is best known …
Brevia
Welcome Home Each March, on the Thursday before spring break, freshmen learn their upperclass housing assignments. To celebrate, most Houses initiate their newcomers with T-shirts, like these from last year's festivities. Washington-Bound Among the …
Issue: March-April 2009
For Santiago’s Poor, Housing with Dignity
Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in marker: Se venden helados —ice cream for sale. Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this …
Connecting with China
China disorients the visitor. The scale and bustle of its cities—propelled by the greatest economic growth and urban migration in history—overwhelm. The currency features Mao’s likeness, but new luxury apartment towers have displaced commoner housing all …
Issue: May-June 2008
Christine Heenan to Depart
Updated 10-1-124, 10:00 p.m. Christine Heenan, vice president for public affairs and communications, will step down from that post on January 31 and move to part-time, advisory status through the end of the academic year as she begins a transition into …
Peter Thiel on Why Monopolies Matter
In conversations about the economy, monopoly can often be a dirty word. But entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel shared his far more iconoclastic view of the business world at an event at Harvard Business School (HBS) on Thursday, arguing that …
Approaching the Arts Anew
Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force involving several Harvard schools will explore the role of …
Issue: January-February 2008
The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval
A strong year for investors generally was a very strong year for the University. Harvard Management Company (HMC), concluding its first full year under new leadership, reported on August 21 that the endowment had risen to $34.9 billion during the fiscal …
Issue: November-December 2007
Spotting Pollutants from Space
In April, a SpaceX rocket carried a commercial communications satellite to a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator. The satellite carried an important payload: a $93-million instrument for measuring pollution across North America, …
Issue: July-August 2023