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Harvard Entrepreneurs’ Summer Road Trip
As Harvard invests in expanding engineering and applied sciences—in the growth of the faculty ranks at the eponymous school, and in such stand-alone entities as the enormous Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering —its professors and …
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The Legacy of Slavery As a substantive matter, reparations for slavery are probably merited but unfortunately competing against the legion of other horrific historical crimes crying out for compensation (“ Acting on Slavery’s Legacy ,” May-June, page 13). …
Issue: July-August 2023
Will Congress Fix the Testing Debacle?
As Congress raced to craft a coronavirus stimulus bill in the second week of December, the question foremost on epidemiologist Michael Mina’s mind was whether funding for accelerated production of rapid tests—$1 paper tests that can be used in the home to …
Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20
The maturity of Jaden Craig took a giant step on Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. There, Harvard’s junior quarterback, spreading the ball to eight receivers, picked apart Cornell and led the Crimson to a 38-20 win over the Big Red. …
University People
Currier House Chiefs Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, and attorney Sylvia Barrett, A.L.B. ’95, have been appointed faculty deans of Currier House (the first leaders appointed to that post since the title was changed …
Issue: July-August 2016
University Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Harvard aims to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent in the next eight years, President Drew Faust announced today. The University has already committed to ambitious environmental goals for the new Allston campus, but this is the first …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Carroll Lowenstein ’52
Had the coronavirus not wiped out the Ivy League football season, coach Tim Murphy’s Harvard squad would be making the jaunt to Philadelphia to face Penn this Saturday in 2020’s penultimate game. In a series that began in 1881, the Crimson leads 49-39-2, …
Controlling the Global Thermostat
Climate change may be the most inexorable catastrophe the human species has ever faced. What to do about the warming is dominated by uncertainties—and a pervasive inability to agree on who should do what in response. Can humanity agree to meet its energy …
Issue: November-December 2020
“Be Unlikely Inseparables”
“Class Day does not traditionally include a moment like this,” said senior program marshal Tarina Ahuja ’24 an hour into this year’s Class Day ceremony. “But we’re also not living in a typical moment.” After earlier speakers referenced the class of 2024’s …
esperanza spalding and “What if . . .” Music
“Alright y’all, what do we need from music tonight?” she asks. It’s 9:00 P.M. and the studio at Harvard’s ArtLab is lit only by lamps. There’s an oval of students on chairs and floor cushions in the center, and in the corner, a tapestry-covered altar with …
Issue: September-October 2022
Community with Purpose
After graduating with an English literature degree, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, moved to Manhattan and joined Random House. Analytical and articulate, she enjoyed working with writers and promoting books. But it was the urban world outside the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard’s Incredible Shrinking Executive-Education Programs
During the past decade of recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Harvard has enjoyed progressively robust growth in executive and continuing education—so much so that this “business” has come to play an important role in diversifying the …
Off the Shelf
Architects of an American Landscape , by Hugh Howard (Atlantic Monthly Press, $30). As Fredrick Law Olmsted, A.M. 1864, LL.D. ’93, was creating New York’s Central Park in the late 1850s, Henry Hobson Richardson, A.B. 1859, from New Orleans, was making his …
Issue: March-April 2022
New Fellows
This magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic year—selected from among nearly 30 applicants—will be Olivia Munk ’16 and Melanie Wang ’15. The fellows join the editorial staff and contribute to the magazine during …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
In the first half of the men’s basketball team’s November game against MIT, Noah Kirkwood ’22 leapt into the air and swatted a shot off the backboard. Then his defense turned to offense: sprinting down the center of the court, Kirkwood received an outlet …