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“Big, Fat, and Sick” Institutions—Can Digital Healthcare Help?
The U.S. healthcare system is “Big, fat, and sick.” So said professor of medicine Jag Singh , speaking at a recent conference in Boston—where his efforts to champion innovations in digital healthcare took center stage. Singh, a former clinical director of …
A More Generous, Capacious America
When Werner Sollors was a boy, growing up among the ruins of postwar Germany, he had at best an indistinct idea of the distant country he would spend his adult life trying to understand. There was no sign yet that he would, decades later, become one of …
Issue: January-February 2025
Harder Times
Abruptly, the financial challenges facing Harvard—whose programs, people, and physical plant have prospered from the seven-fold-plus appreciation of the endowment in the past 15 years—have attracted urgent attention. Late on December 2, the University …
Issue: January-February 2009
Harvard Magazine App
Add the Harvard Magazine app to your device: iPhone or iPad | Android Instructions for iPhone or iPad Progressive web apps can be added to the iPhone and iPad home screen in the same way as regular websites, but they open in their own instance, like a …
Moving On
Jonathan Gorham ’71 recently helped his mother move from a retirement community in Maine to an assisted-living apartment closer to where he and his family live, in Woodbridge, Connecticut. At 87, she has dementia and increasingly needs help taking …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Gene Therapy Breakthrough
As a young man, Sharif Tabebordbar remembers seeing his father struggling to play soccer, and then losing the ability to ride a bike. He could only watch as his father declined, his once healthy body ravaged by a degenerative muscle disease that …
Zakaria Shares Message of Hope in Commencement Speech
Journalist Fareed Zakaria , Ph.D. '93, LL.D. ’12, painted an upbeat picture of today’s world in his Commencement address on May 24. In summing up the world graduates are entering, many speakers focus on doom and gloom: degree candidates “are told they are …
“When in Rome”: Local Customs and Cultural Experiences
Caribbean Think of Aruba and you’ll be whisked away to sandy afternoons, topless beaches, and a pure blue skyline adorning the entire horizon. Yes, we love beaches (who doesn’t?) but there’s much to be gained by taking a rest from your smoothie-sipping, …
Capital Planning Chief Appointed
The University announced today that its search for a vice president for capital planning and project management (a new senior administrative post intended to unify those functions across the Cambridge campus, the Longwood Medical Area, and Harvard's …
Barbara Lawrence
When a forest fire broke out on the Wyoming dude ranch where Barbara Lawrence was working as a teen in the 1920s, she threw herself into feeding the exhausted men returning from fighting the blaze. When it was all over, the grateful foreman said, “Bobby, …
Issue: January-February 2025
Harvard’s Nobel Prize Incubator
A striking phenomenon in the biomedical sciences is that great scientists sometimes arise in clusters at a particular time and place that fosters outstanding scientific achievement. Certain institutions, indeed certain places within institutions, succeed …
The New Gender Gaps
Nick Cato has always liked working with his hands. Growing up in a small town just outside Hillsborough, North Carolina, he says, “I was always outside, messing around, building stuff, climbing trees.” He enjoyed reading, but he struggled in school, where …
Issue: May-June 2025
How to Make a Mammal
“What a mess ,” Sharad Ramanathan thinks, contemplating a group of cells growing in a glass dish. There are different cell types everywhere, the random “daughter cells” produced by a stem cell population. A mathematician and physicist by training, he …
Issue: January-February 2024
Sasha
When Sasha joined Harvard’s staff in August 2022, she became the first non-human to receive a University ID. The Labrador Retriever recently graduated from Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit that trains incarcerated people to raise service dogs for veterans …
Issue: May-June 2024
The Gardens at Elm Bank “Get People Growing”
At its blooming best during the summer, Weezie’s Garden for Children is an enchanting place for all ages. Stroll through the arched entrance of sculpted twigs, and wind along paths through this pollinators’ haven. Climb a tree-house tower, dig in the …
Issue: July-August 2021