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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
Harvard Borrows $2.5 Billion: The Costs and Rationale
Moving promptly to tap the credit markets for additional financial resources--as signaled in the strategy outlined by President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President Ed Forst on December 2--the University sold $1.5 billion in taxable bonds on December …
A Royal Tunic
With stitches as dense as an iPad’s pixels, this woven tunic represents the pinnacle of Inca artistry. The brutal Spanish conquest and the unforgiving march of time have destroyed most Inca textiles, but the tunic now at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, …
Issue: July-August 2024
The Mediatrician
This past June , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that violent video games posed no more danger to children than the grimmest of Grimms’ fairy tales. At issue was a California ban of the sale of violent video games to minors—and seven of the nine justices …
Issue: November-December 2011
“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 …
Education School Announces Interim Dean
Thursday morning , the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced that Larsen professor of education and human development Nonie Lesaux will serve as interim dean when Dean Bridget Long steps down at the end of the academic year . Lesaux, who …
Beyond Empowerment
One of the first clubs I joined at Harvard was the Women’s Initiative in Leadership (WIL), a weekly speaker series offered by the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. I’ve been a feminist since I was a preteen, though the way I defined that word then …
Issue: January-February 2025
Final Club Fallout
In the weeks since College dean Rakesh Khurana and President Drew Faust announced that Harvard would take action against unrecognized single-gender social organizations on campus, both those opposed and those in favor of the policy—ranging from members of …
University News Briefs
Tough Grading for Gen Ed The College’s flagship general-education curriculum came under sharp criticism when a faculty review committee released its report for discussion at the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting. The requirement that …
Issue: July-August 2015
Gilbert and Sullivan, Today
ASher Chamoy ’25 tried multiple times, to no avail, to convince his high school to mount a work by the Victorian dramatist-composer duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. “I was always trying to get them to do The Pirates of Penzance or some other G&S …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Magazine App
Add the Harvard Magazine app to your device: iPhone or iPad | Android Instructions for iPhone or iPad View a video below on how to add the web app for iPhone or iPad: Progressive web apps can be added to the iPhone and iPad home screen in the same …
The Future of Tuberculosis
Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one in 10 …
Letters Between Friends
In 2004 , the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford purchased a collection of documents that included the William Rotch (1844–1925) family papers. Among them were 75 letters that young Willie and his friend Henry Arnold Taber (1841–1868) …
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
Spotlight Travel
New England has a variety of State Parks that make for perfect day trips. Here are some ideas to consider for a summer stop. Gillette Castle State Park 67 River Road East Haddam, CT 06423 860-526-2336 Website It looks like a medieval fortress, but a step …