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The Cell’s Power Plant
When Vamsi Mootha arrived at Harvard for medical school and found that New England weather was like nothing he’d known growing up in Texas, he was unhappy. Hoping to raise his spirits, his father’s cousin invited him to dinner at her apartment in …
Issue: November-December 2018
Finding Their Way
One day last fall , Kit Metoyer, AnnMarie Healy, and Shilpa Tummala —the three seniors on the Harvard women’s basketball team—were sitting on lawn chairs in Harvard Yard, staring intently at their laptops. The scene seemed odd to Madeline Raster, a …
Nicholas Burns: Why Does Good Diplomacy Matter?
What role does diplomacy play in the modern world order , and what are the characteristics of a good diplomat? Which countries are the great powers today, and which will lead in 2050? Does NATO have a role in helping manage the political, economic, …
Life On a Tabletop
Bend, a solo performance by theater artist and puppeteer Kimi Maeda, tells the story of her father, who crossed paths as a boy with the sculptor Isamu Noguchi at a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. (Robert Maeda later became an Asian …
Issue: November-December 2015
An Asian Tour Reunion
Fifty years ago this week, they were just touching down in Bombay, having made their way through the southern islands of the Philippines after a flight from Hong Kong a couple of weeks earlier: 88 undergraduate singers, some as young as 17 and none older …
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Chao Center Celebration Harvesting one of the fruits of its capital campaign the day before unveiling the fundraising effort publicly (see “Capital-Campaign Compendium” for a summary of priorities), Harvard Business School officially broke ground for the …
Issue: July-August 2014
Harvard Human-Behavior Initiative Funded
The University announced today that the Pershing Square Foundation—founded by Bill (William A.) Ackman ’88, M.B.A.’92, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Karen Ackman, M.L.A. ’93—has donated $17 million to “catalyze” a “foundations of human …
From the Archives: Freshman Plus 10
What awaits members of the class of 2021? Recalling his “unusually close-knit entryway” in Canaday, Adam Goodheart ’92 returned to campus to write about his first year a decade out, in “Freshman Plus 10,” published in November-December 1998, Harvard …
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House Renewal: Old Leverett Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith announced in early December that, following renovation of Old Quincy (scheduled to begin this June), the College’s next pilot project for renewal of all undergraduate Houses …
Issue: March-April 2012
The Unruly Academy
One fall day in 1967, Neil L. Rudenstine, Ph.D. ’64, a “recently minted assistant professor,” found himself walking by Mallinckrodt Hall, where a crowd of students had blocked the entry to impede the work of a Dow Chemical Company recruiter, on campus to …
Issue: March-April 2025
Editing an End to Malaria?
At Harvard , experiments involving mosquito sex are the purview of Flaminia Catteruccia, director of the insectary at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is often consulted about mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and …
Issue: May-June 2016
Corporation Appoints Three New Members
Following the Commencement-week meetings of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers—the University’s governing bodies—three new appointments to the Corporation were announced today. These appointments, signaled in a conversation with Senior …
Telling Humanity’s Story through DNA
Interpreting ancient DNA —a scientific approach that has grown powerfully during the past decade—reveals that human history is a story of mixing and migration at a scale and complexity that no one previously imagined. Waves of people and genes have flowed …
Issue: July-August 2022
Back to the Bond Market...
Harvard is in the process of issuing $730 million of tax-exempt revenue bonds and $300 million of taxable revenue bonds. As a result, total debt outstanding will rise from $6.3 billion at the end of the last fiscal year (June 30) to $6.6 billion, …
Football 2019: Columbia 17, Harvard 10
Close and late . How a team fares in such situations often determines its season. For Harvard football in 2019, close and late has meant pain and sorrow. On Saturday at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium against homestanding Columbia, the Crimson didn’t trail …