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Music and Medicine
When Toussaint Miller ’25 arrived at Harvard, he figured he was done with music. He’d loved playing trumpet in his high school jazz band, but now it was time to focus on his books. He wanted to go to medical school, maybe become a surgeon. “I was like, …
Issue: March-April 2025
Teen Grind Culture
Like it or not, children and teenagers today are live participants in an unprecedented experiment, as the sudden ubiquity of smartphones and hyper-engaging social media influences their development. Parents and educators who are not as digitally savvy …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Urban Jobs Crisis
Editor’s note: Background information on the charts accompanying this article (Figures 1 , 2 , and 3 ) appears in the text below. In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity …
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Issue: May-June 2013
Corporation Member James F. Rothenberg Dies
Bloomberg reported on July 21 that James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70—a member of the Harvard Corporation and past University treasurer , and chair of the board of Harvard Management Company , which oversees the endowment—died of a heart attack at age …
Matthew Nock Appointed Professor of Psychology
Matthew Nock , previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been granted tenure and is now professor of psychology. Nock , whose study of suicidal children was featured in the 2009 Harvard Magazine article " Helping Those Most in Need …
Lapp Letter
Note to readers: this is an accessible version of an original letter February 23, 2022 Dear Mayor Wu, Councilor Breadon, Representative Moran, Representative Honan, and Harvard Allston Task Force Members, In his letter to the Harvard …
Chasing History
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On a wintry day in 1946, more than 15,000 spectators crowded into the old Boston Garden to watch Harvard and Yale compete in one of the most important college basketball games of the season. For one …
Should Convicted Felons Serve on Juries?
Should convicted felons be allowed to serve on juries, sitting in judgment on their fellow citizens? On June 2, Premal Dharia, inaugural director of Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, moderated a discussion of this question, at an …
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
“Well, let me just tell you that I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” said Melvin B. Miller ’56 in an interview with this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was …
Notes on Doctoring
During his first year as a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was paged to the room of a delirious patient. The terminally ill man, agitated and defiant, had gotten out of bed, taken off his hospital gown, and was packing his suitcase to go …
Issue: January-February 2022
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 dressed in an all-black outfit—Adidas track pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and drove from his home in Compton, …
Fashion Forward
Drawings by Lewis Albert The spotlights are on and the music is pounding. I am sitting close to the edge of a stage in the darkened Bright Hockey Center, gaping as my fellow Harvard students parade above me in blazers with no shirts underneath, and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Self-Definition
From the book Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths. “In theater, things move very slowly and it’s difficult to get anything done,” says Joel Derfner ’95 . That’s why the song writer and author calls his decision to produce a book largely …
Issue: September-October 2008
Q & A
Listen to the live audio recording. [video:http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/media/0605-Woods.mp3 width:220 height:20] Anthony Christopher Woods, M.P.P. ’08, of the Harvard Kennedy School, delivers his Graduate English Address, “Q & A,” at …
“Generational Pivot”
At Tuesday’s Kennedy School Forum event with former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 , there were echoes of another campus arena: Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard basketball . For one thing, the men’s basketball team filled three rows up …