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The Physician-Poet
The moment that Rafael Campo, M.D. ’92, still thinks about every day—when he enters an exam room where a patient is waiting, or sits at his desk to write a poem—came at the end of what had been the longest, hardest year of his life. These days he has a …
Issue: May-June 2019
Final-Club Complications
As members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) prepare to meet this afternoon to vote on a motion that opposes the College’s proposed sanctions on students who join single-gender social organizations not officially recognized by the College (the …
Democracy Requests the Pleasure of Your Company
The day before she cast two tiebreaker votes in the Senate in early February, Vice President Kamala Harris brought chocolates for senators on both sides of the aisle and then huddled with a few senior members around a fire in her office. The gestures were …
Issue: May-June 2021
Targeting Cancer
Linnea Olson tells her story—of repeatedly facing death, then being saved by the latest precision therapy—articulately and thoughtfully, agreeing to discuss subjects that might otherwise be too personal, she says, because it could benefit other patients. …
Issue: May-June 2018
Brevia
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office Lizabeth Cohen Radcliffe’s Changing Roster Radcliffe Institute dean Barbara J. Grosz, who assumed the position on an acting basis in 2007 and became dean the following year, announced in mid April that she …
Issue: July-August 2011
The Sports Critic
Louisa Thomas ’04 is at her best in transit. Her finest work develops not when she sits down to write, but on her run directly before. That’s when she plots a story in her head, teasing out disparate threads and weaving them into a cohesive narrative. …
Issue: November-December 2020
Rudolph Tanzi: What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age?
What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age? Harvard Medical School professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi discusses how lifestyle choices can help maintain brain health during a person’s lifespan. Topics include Alzheimer’s disease and …
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
Harvard Corporation Revises Its “Composition, Structure, and Practices”
The Harvard Corporation’s self-review of its operations and organization— begun in 2009 and first disclosed to the community that December 15 in remarks by President Drew Faust to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—has culminated in a series of …
Harvard Business School’s $1-Billion Campaign
In the transformed Shad gymnasium, Harvard Business School (HBS) dean Nitin Nohria formally launched its $1-billion capital campaign on Friday evening, April 25: a day that began as another in a series of cool, tardy spring mornings (when the exhortation …
"Effective Treatment Everywhere"
Last fall, President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Michigan president Mark S. Schlissel announced a research and public-policy partnership between the two institutions focusing on the issues of poverty and the opioids crisis . On May 10, the …
Labor, Interrupted
In May 2003 came the joyous birth of Prairie Cummings Resch, first child of Zoe Cummings Resch ’92. All had gone according to plan: Resch lay down on a surgical table. An anesthesiologist inserted an analgesic into her spine, and she became impervious to …
Issue: November-December 2012
Diagnosis by Fiction
In 1968 , Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was driving through the desert in Morocco on a dead-straight road. At one point, he noticed the sun going down directly in front of him while the moon was rising behind. “I had never seen anything like that on …
Issue: March-April 2024
Academic Freedom and Free Speech
The upheaval on American campuses kindled by the Israel-Hamas war has had extreme consequences: resignations of presidents at leading universities, including Harvard; firings of other administrators; discontentment and disciplining of faculty and …
Issue: September-October 2024
Family Spirit, Wetly
Cap and gown : check. Poncho, coat (if available), gloves, scarf, hat (ditto): check. In 2010, when Harvard’s deciders moved Commencement forward from early June, they focused on the delights of late May (and were rewarded with 92-degree heat midweek, …
Issue: July-August 2017