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A Perfect 10
Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football team finished 10-0, won the Ivy League championship, and completed a heady four-year run for its senior members: two perfect seasons, two Ivy titles, an overall record of …
Issue: January-February 2005
Women in the Sciences
Five professors and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are jointly pursuing creative approaches to a persistent problem: the severe underrepresentation of women faculty members in Harvard's science departments. They proceed in an …
Health by the Numbers
"How many of you agree with the statement, 'Health is priceless'?" A robust show of hands. "How many of you went jogging this morning?" No hands. "Now what if I tell you that each hour spent jogging extends your expected life by an hour? So health does …
Battling Eating Disorders
When Amanda Moreno Garcia, M.D. ’26, joined an eating disorder awareness club as a freshman majoring in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, she did it to support a friend. “My friend had lived experience [of an eating disorder] and was really …
Issue: January-February 2024
When “Failure” Means Success
No one wants to talk about failing at Harvard—and it’s not because we haven’t experienced failures here. After four years at the school, most students, if we’re being honest, can recall a handful. There are classroom failures and relationship failures: …
Issue: March-April 2023
Admissions on Trial
Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process was on trial in October and November, in a federal case that could ultimately change the shape of college admissions nationwide. At issue is whether the College’s “holistic” admissions practices—which evaluate …
Issue: January-February 2019
Cambridge 02138
Communicating about Cures—and Cancer The Harvard community is richly peopled with leading biomedical researchers. A few of them are doubly gifted: as writers, they explain disease, medicine, and the quest for new therapies in unusually clear, human terms. …
Issue: January-February 2007
“Out of the Ashes”
In the middle of Shin Sang-ok’s 1958 film The Flower in Hell , a Korean woman dances for a group of American soldiers on a U.S. Army base in Seoul. Behind her, a band plays a cheery mambo. The camera seems to adopt the gaze of the soldiers, panning down …
Harvard’s Class Gap
The gap between coastal elites and America’s white working class has been growing for decades, but in the wee hours of November 9, America’s intellectuals discovered that they had been drowned in a tidal wave of anger and frustration. Harvard students may …
Issue: May-June 2017
Widening the College Pipeline
Soon after Jwahir Sundai started at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, she began searching for “any resources I could get that would help me get into a good college.” A visiting admissions recruiter told her about The Posse Foundation, an unusual …
Issue: July-August 2017
Commencement Confetti
Traditions New and Old Photographs by Jim Harrison In its tenth year of elevation from a division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the cutting-edge School of Engineering and Applied Sciences got its own, very traditional, orange/gold crow’s-foot …
Issue: July-August 2017
“Invisible” No Longer
“You’re going to see a lot of diversity in the room,” Cassandra Fradera, A.L.M. ’17, co-president of the Harvard Latinx Student Alliance (HLSA), said on the phone last week. She was explaining what to expect on Tuesday at the third annual HLSA-sponsored …
An “Older Sister” to Combat Anemia
It looks like the kind of applesauce squeeze bottle one would find in a child’s lunch box. Twist the top off Kiikter’s cheerful pastel pouch (complete with a rhinoceros mascot), take a sip, and consider the contents: the texture of Jello shortly after …
Issue: November-December 2023
Life Lessons
In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to his feet with a kid’s delight and declares, “Today was the first day I tied my shoes in a year. It sounds small, but it was big for me. I never …
Issue: January-February 2006
A Satisfactory Split
With a little over 53 seconds left in Harvard’s game at Cornell on Friday night and the Crimson trailing 71-70, freshman guard Bryce Aiken had the ball at the top of key, and the Big Red’s Jack Gordon was staring intently at him. Understandably so. …