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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 …
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 …
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
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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
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
With the extensive collection of children’s books donated by Peter J. Solomon ’60, M.B.A. ’63, the newly renovated Houghton Library could have opened an exhibit of the genre’s “greatest hits.” Among other treasures, Solomon’s collection includes first …
Off the Shelf
… but don’t want to invest in a Harvard M.B.A. (2024-2025 estimated cost of attendance for a married student …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard at the Olympics
As most students wrap up summer internships, 26 of their fellow Harvardians are spending two weeks in Paris vying for the world’s most prestigious sporting titles. Crimson athletes competed in events ranging from fencing and field hockey to sailing and …
“We’re Better Than That!”
Early in the fourth quarter of last Friday’s women’s basketball game against Brown, the Bears ripped off six unanswered points, so Delaney-Smith Head Coach Carrie Moore called a time-out: “We’re better than that!” she shouted to her players. Harvard was …
Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era
“Who here had any democratic input into ChatGPT?” Catherine D’Ignazio asked the audience at the Radcliffe Institute’s Knafel Center. “Nobody’s raising their hand, that’s strange,” she joked, looking out at the predominantly female crowd gathered for a …
Martha Tedeschi to Step Down from Harvard Art Museums
Martha Tedeschi , Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums (HAM) since 2016 , announced today that she will retire at the end of this academic year, next June 30. During her tenure, the renovated museums’ complex, which reopened in 2014 , ramped up …
Gary Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status
In a June 10 email to affiliates of the anthropology department, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Peabody Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced that she has stripped former Dumbarton Oaks professor of pre-Colombian studies Gary Urton of …
Endowment Gain—and Gaps
The University’s endowment was valued at $37.6 billion on last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2015—a gain of $1.2 billion (3.3 percent) from a year earlier—finally exceeding the peak value (not adjusted for inflation) realized in fiscal 2008, just before …
Issue: November-December 2015
Making Schools Work
I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane rehearsed the pitch he’d memorized to persuade the world’s richest man to fund a radical new approach to education reform. Ordinarily, Kane’s speech is slow and deliberate, …
Issue: March-April 2025
A Tale of Two Universities
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina famously begins, “All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.” To abuse that classic brutally, one might say that in flush times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard Medalists
THE HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during the Harvard Alumni Day festivities on June 2. Paula A. Johnson ’80, M.D. ’84, M.P.H. ’85, a physician-scientist, educator, and …