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Allston Developer Designated Harvard Allston Land Company announced in December that Tishman Speyer, led by president and CEO Rob Speyer ’91, has been chosen to develop the initial 14 acres of the 36-acre “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue, …
Issue: March-April 2020
On Your Behalf
We are proud to recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine for their superb work on your behalf during 2023, and to confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative literature James Engell has …
Issue: January-February 2024
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Nobel Duo Harvard scholars received the highest accolades this October, when Farber professor of medicine William Kaelin was announced as co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer …
Issue: January-February 2020
A Marathon Dream Deferred
The day of the 2018 Boston Marathon was blustery, rainy, and cold—conditions ideal for neither runners nor spectators. Still, despite the wind and downpour, “The race itself was inspirational,” said Stephen J. Bourguet G.S.A. ’24, a graduate student in …
A Right Way to Read?
Reading didn’t come naturally for Abigail, a seventh grader at a public middle school in Cambridge. “It was challenging when I started early on, when I was in kindergarten, learning the ABCs,” she remembers. English is her second language, Arabic her …
Issue: September-October 2024
Faculty Senate Debate Continued
During an unusual special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on May 14, members continued the prior week’s lively, engaged discussion of whether to join efforts to explore a University-wide faculty senate . Opinion on the specific proposal …
The Off-Kilter Economy
By most measures, the U.S. economy weathered the pandemic recession. But even as life returns to normal for most Americans, the recovery remains hard to interpret. Policymakers face conflicting signals: job growth, for example, that would normally presage …
Issue: November-December 2022
Harvard Announces Salary, Hiring Freezes and Other Spending Cuts
Breaking News: In a message headlined “Economic Impact of COVID-19,” President Lawrence S. Bacow—joined by Provost Alan M. Garber and Executive Vice President Katie Lapp—just notified the community that “we need to take some actions immediately to align …
Election Results
Six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were voted in earlier this year; each will each serve three-year terms. They are: Santiago Creuheras, A.L.M. ’00, A.L.M. ’01, C.S.S. ’01, Mexico City. Senior consultant on sustainable …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Omicron Semester
During the week after Thanksgiving break, when Harvard’s campus was fully populated with students, professors, and staff, the University logged 140 cases of coronavirus; but during an early-January week with far fewer people present, 970 new infections …
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Nicholas Stephanopoulos was a second-year law student at Yale when the Supreme Court ruled—unsatisfactorily, he believed—on the 2004 Pennsylvania gerrymandering case Vieth v. Jubelirer . Splitting 5-4, the justices upheld the state’s partisan …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Evolutionary Case for Exercise
What role does exercise play in shaping the health of our brains and bodies? For Lerner professor of biological sciences Daniel Lieberman , the answer lies in our distant past. In his scholarship, Lieberman has explored how the arc of human natural …
Humanists All
Editor’s note: Harvard Magazine published “ The Market-Model University: Humanities in the Age of Money ,” by James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield, in the May-June 1998 issue. A quarter-century later, the trends identified then have only intensified. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Can Disinformation Be Stopped?
“Stop the Steal” was first trotted out during the 2016 Republican primaries. As the Republican National Convention approached, Donald Trump’s campaign consultant Roger Stone coined the phrase, urging people to resist the allegedly corrupt “establishment” …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Cost of Political Violence
After a shocking assassination attempt earlier this month against Donald Trump, rising political violence is once again in the news. On Thursday afternoon, the Harvard Kennedy School convened a panel of scholars to discuss how Americans’ attitudes have …