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Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart
As the holiday season approaches , deciding what to put on your plate takes on new significance—not only for your health, but for the health of the planet. Does your Thanksgiving dinner make any difference in the vast and complicated context of greenhouse …
Samuel Gershman
“In some deep sense, memory is at the core of life,” says neuroscientist and professor of psychology Samuel Gershman, midway through a story about the “wild voyage” that led him to his current quest. He and his lab are working to develop a computer model …
Issue: September-October 2025
“An Academic Year in an Age of Upheaval”
As classes begin for one of the most challenging semesters in Harvard and higher-education history —with most instruction remote, only a small cohort of undergraduates in residence, and rigorous coronavirus testing and other measures to protect the …
Can Financial Crises Be Predicted?
In his memoir of the 2008 financial crisis, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner wrote that such crises are like “earthquakes”—they “cannot be reliably predicted, so they cannot be reliably prevented.” Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben …
Issue: January-February 2021
Brevia
Summer Touchups In addition to the previously reported sprucing-up of Massachusetts Hall’s systems ( “Building Unabated,” May-June, page 24), the Stadium’s concrete walls and steps underwent repairs, beginning this spring, that are scheduled to conclude …
Issue: July-August 2018
President Garber, Provost Manning
Having shed the “interim” title on August 2, President Alan M. Garber —now expected to serve through June 30, 2027—today solidified his administration by ending the interim status of his designated successor as provost, former Harvard Law School dean John …
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
THE COLLEGE has admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2022, the same percentage as last year , the admissions office announced today. Of the 6,630 students who applied through the program, 964 were admitted. The admissions …
Fare Thee Well
Ever wonder why there are so few superlative Chinese restaurants in this country? Why all we expect is dependable, cheap food in nondescript surroundings? Why no one in the kitchen wants to prove that Chinese cuisine can be haute? It’s the same story with …
Issue: May-June 2005
Football: Harvard 45, Georgetown 0
The tiredest fellow at Harvard Stadium last Friday night may well have been Kenny Smart ’18. The Crimson placekicker had a full evening of work, having swung his right leg on the game’s opening kickoff, six successful point-after-touchdown conversions and …
Club and Alumni Interest Group Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards recognize individual and shared-interest groups that have made exceptional contributions to their Harvard communities. Recipients of this year’s Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award are Alice Abarbanel ’66, Louis Edozien ’81, …
Issue: November-December 2023
A Passion for Equity
As an undergraduate studying environmental systems technology at Cornell, Anyeley Hallová, M.L.A. ’03, wanted to give back to the black community. She would travel from Ithaca to her home in South Florida to encourage students from predominantly black …
A Presidency’s Early End
After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were pursued, the Harvard presidency of Lawrence H. Summers will end on June 30. Throughout his administration, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Sister Acts and Cyanotypes
On a Zoom call from her basement studio in early May, New York-based painter Julia Rooney ’11 shows me a part of a project she’s finishing—a series of camera-less photographic prints called cyanotypes. Developed in the mid-1800s, the cyanotype process …
Issue: July-August 2025
Most Harvard Staff Will Be Remote through June 30
Most of Harvard’s faculty and staff members will continue working remotely through June 30, 2021, executive vice president Katie Lapp announced in an email to University employees today. While Harvard has successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 on …
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals , looking ahead to Commencement 2005, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal Caleb Franklin, of Leverett House and Los Angeles; Sheria Smith, of Winthrop House and Gary, Indiana; Duncan Graham Wells, of Leverett House and Chevy …
Issue: May-June 2005