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Movement Ecology
The afternoon was cloudless, a brief window of calm in an otherwise hectic spring semester. Alejo and I sat in the backyard of the Dudley Cooperative house, regarding the pots of planting soil and trowels before us. That morning our house tutor had …
Issue: September-October 2019
Unequal America
When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United …
Issue: July-August 2008
Eating Greener
It started with apples. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) focused on small changes to the food-buying process as it sought to become more sustainable. What kinds of foods could it buy locally? Apples worked. “It was …
Issue: July-August 2019
This Financial Meltdown, and the Next One
A panel of professors convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean of social sciences Stephen M. Kosslyn on February 11 analyzed the causes of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009, the resulting near-brush with what one of them called "Great Depression …
Stinging the Blues
The bulldog got stung again in the final minutes of The Game. To football-loving Old Blues, these acts of Harvard waspishness must seem to repeat themselves like a recurring dream. The archetype is the 1968 game, when Harvard scored 16 points in the last …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard Layoffs Update, and More "Reshaping" to Come
Harvard's layoffs of staff members begun last week prompted a labor protest and extended public comment on news-media websites. Meanwhile, communications from deans to faculty and staff members at the affected schools reveal more about their financial …
EVP Forst to Leave Harvard
Executive Vice President Ed Forst '82, who joined Harvard last fall from Goldman Sachs, where he oversaw management of hundreds of billions of dollars of investment assets (and previously served as chief administrative officer), is leaving the University …
American Repertory Theater Moving to Harvard’s Allston Properties
The Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theater (ART), now based in the Loeb Drama Center, which opened on Brattle Street in Cambridge in 1960, will relocate to a new home in Allston—a move catalyzed by a $100-million gift from David E. Goel ’93 and …
Accelerating Innovation
Douglas Melton was studying frog developmental biology in the 1990s. Then his young son developed type 1 diabetes, and he vowed to find a cure for the disease, which affects as many as 22 million people worldwide. He refocused his lab on the emerging …
Issue: March-April 2019
Brevia
Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Barbara J. Grosz Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz , a computer scientist, has been named interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She succeeds …
Issue: July-August 2007
Football 2018: Harvard 21, Princeton 29
Where had we seen this scenario before? Forty-some seconds remaining. Harvard scoring to cut the traditional rival’s lead to 29-21. Now comes the onside kick. If the Crimson recovers, takes it in for a touchdown and then adds the two-point conversion, the …
Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions Make Opening Arguments
In a packed Boston courtroom Monday, Harvard and the anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) presented arguments in the first day of trial of a four-year-old civil-rights lawsuit charging that the College’s admissions office …
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finally—finally—I am hitting my stride. “In The Good Person of Szechuan, Berthold Brecht has created what looks at first like a parable about virtue and vice,” I …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard’s Governing Boards Refreshed
It’s the changing of the University guard: as President Drew Faust conducts her last Commencement and president-elect Lawrence S. Bacow prepares to succeed her on July 1, Harvard’s two governing boards have new personnel, too. The Corporation had a …
America and Latin America
George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when more urgent issues arise. Latin Americans are not sure whether they prefer presidential attention or neglect. …
Issue: January-February 2002