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Gender Agenda
Even as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) intensely debated the College’s proposed rules sanctioning student participation in single-gender final clubs and similar social organizations, which are not officially recognized by Harvard, an outcry arose …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2017
Dining Workers’ Deadline
Harvard might soon find itself dealing with its largest labor battle in more than a decade, when in 2002 its lowest-paid workers fought for, and won , the right to earn a living wage. Yesterday, the University’s dining hall workers voted 591-18 to …
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
Adulting, Interrupted
At the start of the fall semester, my childhood best friend, Tara, and I decided to take a walk together every week. Our incentive was twofold: the Tucson weather was finally beginning to slither into the 80s—a refreshing change from the brutal 110-degree …
Issue: March-April 2021
Seeing Stars
“We’ll be able to see the beginning of the universe as we know it today,” says Charles Alcock , director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and professor of astronomy—imaging the radiation signatures from ancient galaxies billions of …
Issue: May-June 2013
Opera Reimagined
On the last day of winter break, as other undergraduates emerged from taxis and the T bleary-eyed and hauling suitcases, the cast of the Lowell House Opera gathered in the Lowell Junior Common Room to put together the pieces of The Unknowable for the …
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 …
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 …
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
The Parkland Generation
I spent my July Fourth listening to fireworks instead of watching them. I had opted for a nighttime walk through Danehy Park, just a few blocks north of the Radcliffe Quadrangle. During the school year, it had given me refuge during all manner of academic …
Issue: September-October 2022
A Common Underground
The place I remember most from freshman fall won’t show up on Google’s map of Harvard. I took a class whose questions permeate my studies to this day: “Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition , ” taught by history professors Vincent Brown and …
Issue: January-February 2021
Brevia
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 …
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
Caring for the Caregivers
Not long after his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Tom Lee picked up a book on caregiving, one of the many he’d devour in those early, frightening weeks, when the future felt suddenly impossible to imagine. Amid all the information and …
Issue: January-February 2025