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Lessons in Dementia’s Decline?
Public-health officials have for years been warning of a coming “gray wave” of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Today, an estimated 47 million people worldwide live with the disorder. That cohort is expected to triple in the next three …
Issue: November-December 2020
Live Long—and Save the Planet
It’s widely accepted that diets that emphasize plant-based foods—such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes—are beneficial for human health, reducing the risk of chronic ailments such as heart disease. At the same time, mounting evidence shows …
Issue: March-April 2023
Harvard Divinity Dean Hempton to Step Down
H arvard Divinity School dean David N. Hempton, who is O’Brian professor of divinity and McDonald Family professor of Evangelical theological studies, announced today that he will step down at the end of this academic year. He was appointed by President …
When free isn't free...
During its first century, Harvard Magazine was, well, a magazine. But since 1996 we’ve tried to serve you by becoming, as well: a website a vigorous online news source (with timely articles reported and edited to our highest standards) an email …
On Public Notice
Some might doubt that anyone reads those paragraphs of dense text that appear toward the back of the newspaper: the ones that contain information about ordinances, meetings, petitions, foreclosures, municipal budgets, and other official proceedings that …
Brevia
Design Dean Sarah Whiting, a Yale alumna who earned her master of architecture degree from Princeton and her Ph.D. from MIT—and was a design critic and assistant and associate professor at the Graduate School of Design at the turn of the …
Issue: July-August 2019
The Federal Fisc
… in 2017 will be allowed to expire as scheduled after 2025; if, instead, those tax cuts are made permanent, as …
Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf
Issue: May-June 2020
Campus, Interrupted
A New Harvard Experience by Rebecca E.J. Cadenhead Like many first-years, I arrived at college ready to be molded. Correspondingly, it seemed as though the University was ready to subsume me; by catering to almost every need it ensured that I stayed …
Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella
Issue: November-December 2021
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Gram Parsons Thank you for Nancy Kathryn Walecki’s excellent piece on Gram Parsons, his Harvard connections, and his influence on popular music (“ Sound as Ever ,” July-August, page 44). He opened the ears of a generation with his fusion of country and …
Issue: September-October 2023
Harvard’s Slave Legacy
“People have this image of Harvard University being an ivory tower, as if it’s separated from the world,” observes Warren professor of American history and professor of African and African American studies Vincent Brown near the beginning of a short …
Broadening the Faculty’s Ranks
Data on the faculty’s composition, embedded within Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay’s annual report, are largely consistent with prior-year trends. The ladder faculty (tenured and tenure-track) numbers 728, up from 724; that is down …
Issue: January-February 2021
Crimson Red Ink
Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, published today, shows the initial, adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic as: revenue decreased by 3 percent, to $5.4 billion; and the University recorded a $10-million …
A “Scholar’s Scholar”
Claudine Gay arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1992 as a first-year graduate student, lugging the things that seemed most essential to her success: a futon, a Mac Classic II, and a cast iron skillet for frying plantains. The futon, no doubt, was …
Issue: September-October 2023
Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence
I spent the first “post-pandemic” semester back on campus racked with homesickness. In retrospect, it was a familiar feeling: the same fog had descended upon me my first year at Harvard, in 2019. That was the first time I had been away from home for …
Issue: January-February 2023
Using the Law for Good
As a child , Justice Sonia Sotomayor loved watching the television show Perry Mason . From the living room of her Bronx public housing apartment, the future Supreme Court associate justice was enraptured by the lead fictional lawyer. “In the first half of …