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Behind the Scenes: Group Mentality
Staff writer Max Krupnick shares his insights into what led him to professor of psychology Mina Cikara’s research on group behavior. A few days after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, I sat in my friend’s living room. We talked about our …
May-June 2024
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Harvard Begins Search for Engineering Dean
A cting in her continuing capacity as Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean, Claudine Gay, the University’s president-elect, has initiated the search for a successor to School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) dean Frank Doyle. He announced …
Scoring Moves
In track, sprinters kick off their starting blocks with all their might, springing forward like an arrow from a bow. In basketball, an emphatic dunk is invariably preceded by an emphatic push off the floor. But athletes don’t have the advantage of a solid …
Issue: November-December 2022
Overseer and Elected Director Slates Announced
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May …
Football 2023: Harvard 45-University of St. Thomas 13
Let’s not kid ourselves. The Harvard football team’s 45-13 thrashing of St. Thomas on Saturday in the Crimson’s 2023 opener at Harvard Stadium had its uses. It kicked off a season-long celebration of 150 years of Harvard football (excepting 2020, of …
Reparations as Public Health
“Health is wealth ,” said Julia Mejia, Boston City Councilor At-Large, during a conversation Monday afternoon with Harvard’s Mary T. Bassett about reparations for slavery as a public health measure. “All these things are really interconnected…and health …
FAS: Faculty and Fisc
In presenting the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year to colleagues at their November meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra faced the unusual problem of accounting for developments for which she bore no responsibility: she …
Issue: January-February 2024
Allston Commercial Development Advances
… soon, with initial occupancy beginning in 2024 or early 2025. … 223 … Boston approves plan with more affordable …
Mikhail Lukin Named University Professor
Mikhail Lukin, a global leader in quantum physics, has been named a University Professor. University Professors hold the highest faculty rank at Harvard, reflecting the eminence of their scholarship, and may teach and conduct research in any University …
“People Were Making Bricks Out of Straw”
“We have to see our own power.” That was the core message from civil rights lawyer and 2022 Radcliffe Medal recipient Sherrilyn Ifill during a Radcliffe Day discussion on Friday. Her remarks were intended to inspire, but also to warn: “One of the …
After the Pandemic’s Peak
The good news is that the bad news isn’t so bad. That’s a quick interpretation of dean Claudine Gay’s annual report on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the accompanying financial results for fiscal year 2021, discussed with colleagues …
2015 Dietary Recommendations Cover New Ground
A scientific report outlining new recommended dietary guidelines is already drawing attention in Washington D.C.—less for its fresh take on optimal diets than for its policy suggestions—and some of the authors joined a symposium hosted at the Harvard T. …
Three New University Professors
The three of them around a table would make quite a dinner party: a molecular biologist studying the link between brain circuits and behavior, an immunologist harnessing research on T cells to find new therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases, and a …
Zachary R. Mider ’01 Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize board today announced the 2015 winners and finalists in 21 categories in journalism and the arts. Zachary R. Mider ’01 received the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, for his series “Tax Runaways,” about corporate tax avoidance. …