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Gift Funds Neuroscience Research into Medical Marijuana
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has received a $500,000 gift that funds their new Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) Program. The donation, announced on October 6, comes from …
The Placebo Phenomenon
Two weeks into Ted Kaptchuk ’s first randomized clinical drug trial, nearly a third of his 270 subjects complained of awful side effects. All the patients had joined the study hoping to alleviate severe arm pain: carpal tunnel, tendinitis, chronic pain in …
Issue: January-February 2013
Cinema with Gravitas
It was not much of a house at all: just a simple shack, with a dirt floor and ramshackle walls. But its owner, a Haitian sugarcane worker in the Dominican Republic, graciously let in the strangers who’d knocked at his door, offering them respite from the …
Issue: September-October 2014
Upstairs, Downstairs
When the janitors and dining hall staff arrive at 6 a.m., the Currier House dining hall resembles a poorly conceived seventeenth-century Dutch still life: blue plastic trays piled on top of one another, cups running over, remnants of yesterday's kung kung …
Adams House Renewal Begins
On June 3 , construction began on the renewal of Adams House, marking the start of a project slated to take place in three phases spanning four years , to be completed by August 2023. Adams is the sixth House to be renewed under a multi-decade renewal …
Rick Lowe Questions the Concept of “Value” at GSD Class Day
As a young artist in the early 1990s, Rick Lowe had just completed a painting about police brutality when a high-school student stopped by his Houston studio. Lowe considered the work as an “exciting moment” in his career, but his visitor had a different …
Artist Rick Lowe to Headline Graduate School of Design Class Day
Rick Lowe, a pioneering public artist, will speak at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day on May 27. Lowe, a 2002 Loeb Fellow at the GSD, is best known for his two decades of work with Project Row Houses (PRH). He founded the community arts and …
Scott Cook to Address HBS Graduating Class
The founder of Intuit Inc. —maker of finance software products including TurboTax, Quickbooks, and Quicken, that are used by an estimated 50 million individuals and small businesses worldwide—will speak at Harvard Business School’s Class Day ceremony on …
Harvard Endowment’s Sweeping Overhaul
In his first annual letter , disseminated in September, Harvard Management Company (HMC) president and CEO Stephen Blyth described both sluggish recent investment returns and—far more consequentially—significant changes in asset allocation and investment …
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Public Health Address
My warm greetings and congratulations to all 2021 graduates of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to Dean Michelle Williams, and to all faculty, family, and friends. I want to start by thanking Dean Williams and the School of Public Health for …
Remaking the Grid
Paolo Pasco ’22 was still a high-school freshman when he learned that one of his crossword puzzles had been accepted for publication by The New York Times . “I was just getting out of gym class,” he recalls, “and I saw the subject line “crossword yes” …
Issue: March-April 2019
“Harvard Guy” Ryan Fitzpatrick Rides High in the NFL
Led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, the resurgent Buffalo Bills are treating their long-suffering fans to something resembling a dream season. The Bills had victories in four of their first six games, including an upset of the top-tier New England …
Holiday Decorating on Steroids
Forget a lone Christmas tree, front door wreath, and even a slew of dangling baubles. For seriously dazzling holiday decorations, head instead to two Newport, Rhode Island, mansions meticulously dolled up for the season. The Preservation Society of …
Issue: November-December 2024
Darkness Visible
On an August evening at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, having hiked past the lawn concert of dirgeful folk music—an audience of couples propped against each other as though they had renounced their spines—opera director Sarah Ina Meyers ’02, composer …
Issue: November-December 2018
Connecting the Harvard Dots
If graduating seniors wondered whether Commencement marked the end of all their Harvard fun and learning, Robert R. Bowie Jr. ’73 was there on Class Day to tell them, “Hell, no!” In fact, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) promised, …
Issue: September-October 2010