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Toward Precision Medicine
Anticipating “radical transformations” in medicine in coming decades, the dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) has authorized a full-scale department of biomedical informatics, effective July 1. Jeffrey Flier’s move recognizes the growing importance of …
Issue: May-June 2015
Faculty Tensions I: The Sanctity of the Classroom
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 4, a rare standing-room-only crowd of professors expressed their disagreement—sometimes passionately—with two recent University actions they associated with the central administration: •the …
Burned at the Buzzer
T he big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl on November 20, it played out as tragedy for the Crimson faithful attending the 116th Harvard-Yale football …
Capitalizing
The University announced in mid September that The Harvard Campaign—launched publicly a year earlier, with $2.8 billion of gifts and pledges in hand—had realized an additional $1.5 billion of commitments through the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 2014, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Mystical Poet and American Novelist Launch Commencement Week
Speaking in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning, poet Donald Revell and orator Andrea Barrett opened the Commencement celebrations at the 224th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) exercises. Best known for his 1983 collection From Abandoned Cities , Revell draws …
Harvard Business School Launches HBX
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced HBX, its venture into online learning . It differs in two significant ways from edX, the Harvard-MIT online learning partnership through which HarvardX has offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) from …
Q&A with Theresa Betancourt
Assistant professor of child health and human rights Theresa Betancourt, the director of Harvard’s Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, is the subject of a profile in the November-December issue . Here are excerpts from an interview with …
Voter Suppression Returns
The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties, and their core constituents, believe that the stakes are exceptionally high; neither party has much trust in the …
Issue: July-August 2012
A Teach-in on Teaching
The first in a series of “Conversations@FAS” convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith drew a standing-room-only crowd on February 11 to a lecture theater in Maxwell-Dworkin, where professors, lecturers, tutors, and teaching fellows …
Four in a Row
Iannuzzi’s runback. If you witnessed it, you know. If you didn’t, be advised that Marco Iannuzzi’s 84-yard kick return in the 2010 Harvard-Yale game will stand as another high moment in the fabled series, as memorable as Bob Cochran’s juggling catch in …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Missing Middle
This academic year, Harvard’s campus has been a political powder keg. Many commentators are rightly concerned about free speech at this University and others, but the current national discussion has overlooked the harmful effects of its own presence. A …
Issue: July-August 2024
A Yukon Life
An Essay on Eric Eric Hegsted ’73 lived in Yukon Territory for four decades, until his death in a snowmobile accident in 2019. Though urged to write publishable essays on his experiences there, he wanted to avoid the temptation of tinkering with his life …
Issue: September-October 2021
A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide
Case by case , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, has chipped away at laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: first by arguing cases before the Supreme Court as an attorney for the American Civil …
Big D
Arctic conditions prevailed at Harvard Stadium on November 22, and so did the home team. With a titanic defensive performance, Harvard shut out Yale, 10-0, topping off a 9-1 season and securing a share of the Ivy League championship. Harvard won the Ivy …
Issue: January-February 2009
David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
Mass murders committed with firearms are becoming more frequent in the United States. And the total number of gun deaths, a majority by suicide, is now on par with those caused by automobile accidents. None of this has broken the political gridlock …