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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 …
Overseers Petitioners Challenge Harvard Policies
As campaign announcements go, it was as splashy as could be: a page-one story in The New York Times of January 15, headlined “How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees.” The article detailed a plan by five people to petition for slots …
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
Asian-American Admissions Suit Proceeds to Discovery
A couple of hundred thousand applicants for admission to Harvard College are about to hear from the institution again—in an unexpected and possibly unwelcome way. Under court-directed discovery in the lawsuit filed in 2014 by the Project on Fair …
The Voter-Fraud Disinformation Campaign
How did mail-in voting, a practice that U.S. states have implemented for decades, become so polarized in a matter of months? A new report by a research team at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society argues that the myth that vote-by-mail …
Ripening Nicely
Soon Harvard’s sidewalk superintendents will turn their attention to Allston because that’s where the hardhats will go. For the next 50 years, idle observers will oversee workers as they erect 10 million square feet of buildings there and increase the …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Space “to Convene, to Learn, and to Celebrate”
Despite rainy weather and the mounting academic demands of the fall semester, students, staff, and faculty trekked across the river and the HBS campus for a symposium on the state of democracy at Harvard Business School (HBS). The event took place inside …
Harvard President Claudine Gay Testifies Before Congress
On October 7 , hours after Hamas’s terroristic assault on Israel, a coalition of more than 30 Harvard student groups released a statement holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The now-infamous letter—and the three …
Thinking about Space
In a seminar room on the fifth floor of the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, instructor in architecture Lisa Haber-Thomson is looking over a 3-D rendering of a tall and skinny apartment complex comprised of bright red, off-kilter stacked cubes and …
Issue: September-October 2018
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee Awards honor both individuals who provide exemplary service to those groups, and groups that have themselves organized exceptional programming. This year’s awards were presented to the following recipients at the HAA board …
Issue: March-April 2015
Who Let the Dogs Out?
The Yale bulldog, muzzled by Harvard for five straight years, broke loose at the Stadium on November 18 and went on a tear. Closing out an Ivy League season made memorable by the exploits of Crimson running back Clifton Dawson, Yale’s 34-13 victory gave …
Issue: January-February 2007
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
When the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare health disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States, it appeared that a persistent public-health problem would finally get the increased attention it deserves. Population data from early in the …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Perfect Amateur
For John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92, visiting museums is not a chore but a pleasure, one that brings back fond early memories of trips to the Reading (Pennsylvania) Museum with his mother. As the writer makes clear in his—barely—fictional 1967 …
Issue: March-April 2006
Michael Pollan’s Crooked Writing Path
Whether he is writing a book on big farming and the way Americans think about food, or interviewing terminal cancer patients who have had life-altering experiences through hallucinogenic drugs, author Michael Pollan’s career as a writer has been anything …