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Chinese Trade Dragons
China’s economy has grown more than five-fold during the last 20 years, adjusted for inflation—making it the second-largest economy globally, behind only the United States. Based on purchasing power parity (not per capita output), many believe China’s …
China's Newest Revolution: Health for All?
… from 8 percent now (about 100 million) to 14 percent in 2025 (approaching 200 million)—posing large challenges of …
Issue: May-June 2010
At Home with Harvard: Pride Month
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories the climate crisis, racial justice, health and fitness, and …
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Higher Ed Obligations Julie Reuben’s important review of how brand-obsessed colleges are neglecting the needs and purpose of higher education lists several developments in higher ed (“ Ego U ,” March-April, page 24), but omits two that apply especially to …
Issue: May-June 2023
Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine
Harvard Medical School professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun , Ph.D. ’82, has been named co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester. The scientists were …
Documenting Climate Change Deception
Between 1977 and 2003, ExxonMobil scientists, and the executives to whom they reported, not only knew that climate change was real, they produced some of the best projections and models of global warming that existed at the time, even as their public …
Finishing Kick
Lawrence S. Bacow regularly ran marathons when he was Tufts president, and conducted an interview with a Crimson reporter while splashing along Memorial Drive on the wet Marathon Monday before he took office as Harvard’s leader in 2018. He no longer …
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s 373 rd Commencement exercises, scheduled for …
Ivy League Cancels Winter Season
With COVID-19 cases rising across the country, the Ivy League has canceled its winter athletic season. The statement by the Ivy League Council of Presidents, released yesterday, also noted that fall sports will not be conducted during the upcoming spring …
Dementias Linked to Air Pollution
Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other dementias are linked to air pollution, new research finds, adding neurological degeneration to the growing list of effects attributable to fine particles . A study of 63 million adults older than 65 in the United …
Fostering Civil Discourse
After a tumultuous fall 2023 semester , Harvard turned its attention toward difficult conversations. How can students feel comfortable discussing controversial events? Why are students reluctant to express disagreement in and out of the classroom? In …
Is Harvard Antisemitic?
When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and destruction—and also inflamed American prejudice on ethnic and religious grounds. Within hours, allegations of such bias came to Harvard. A hasty October 7 student letter …
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Civil Rights, Reinterpreted Lincoln Caplan’s cover story about Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s re-assessment of the civil rights movement (“ Both Sides Now, ” January-February, page 29) gives us a wide-screen picture of the struggle over a far longer period, …
Issue: March-April 2022
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
In the mid 1990s Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. ’84, was raising money for the Harvard libraries during a capital campaign as a member of the FAS development team. She recalls people saying, “‘But libraries are going to disappear. Nobody uses libraries anymore …
Issue: March-April 2025
Vote Now
This spring , alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. The slates appear below, in ballot order as determined by lot. Read Overseer nominees’ thoughts on the Board’s role and challenges …
Issue: May-June 2021