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Bias in Artificial Intelligence
One of the more startling and instructive documentaries of the recent past is 2020’s Coded Bias , which explores a thorny dilemma: in modern society, artificial-intelligence systems increasingly govern and surveil people’s lives—algorithms now routinely …
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 …
Five Questions with Paris Olympian Graham Blanks ’25
runner graham blanks '25 spoke about his experience earning a New Balance sponsorship in the November-December feature " The End of the Ivy League? " Harvard Magazine asked the economics and philosophy concentrator from Athens, Georgia, who placed ninth …
Focus on West African Women
The Harvard Film Archive screens the complete works of this year’s McMillan-Stewart Fellow, filmmaker Rosine Mbakam (January 27-February 9). Born in Cameroon and based in Belgium, Mbakam will be on hand February 8 and 9 to discuss her documentaries, …
Issue: January-February 2025
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
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
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 …
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
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 …
Free Speech on Campus
On Tuesday evening , one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for President Claudine Gay’s dismissal and less than 12 hours after Harvard Corporation members released a statement confirming their support for her continued leadership, …