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Freedom from Food
When Juna Gjata ’17 was growing up, everyone she knew seemed to be on a diet. Weight-conscious adults ordered salads with dressings on the side, requested coffee without milk or sugar, and ate unflavored rice cakes. Her high-school friends followed along. …
Issue: September-October 2022
The Philosopher of the Real World
When Susanna Siegel was a teenager, two political events shook her world. One was the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a 15-year-old living in Ithaca, New York, she traveled to Managua in 1985 to join the youth brigades supporting the Sandinista movement. It was …
Issue: January-February 2024
Harvard Square under Pandemic Pressure
In normal times, Harvard Square looms large in the memory of alumni and serves as a magnet for visitors from around the world. But with the coronavirus pandemic sending students home from campus, curtailing tourist traffic globally, and restricting …
At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, movies and …
At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, movies and …
At Home with Harvard: Women in Sports
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, movies and …
At Home with Harvard: American Democracy
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, immigration, and …
Deciphering Lyme Disease
Whole-genome sequencing of hundreds of samples of Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease, has revealed why the severity of the illness varies from place to place and person to person. The findings suggest new strategies …
Issue: January-February 2024
“O” for Opportunity
Imagine, against all the evidence, that the Supreme Court, which is hearing arguments on October 31 in the anti-affirmative-action lawsuits Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) has brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina , rules for …
Issue: November-December 2022
Harvard College Admissions Rate Falls to 6.2 Percent
Harvard College today announced that 2,158 students, from among 34,950 applicants, had been offered admission to the class of 2015, entering this August. The admission rate, slightly under 6.2 percent, fell from 6.9 percent last year, driven by a nearly …
“Joyous Protest Posters”
The lobby of Houghton Library—Harvard’s repository for rare books and manuscripts (as well as theatre and performing arts archives)—greets visitors with streaks of midnight blues, electric yellows, and blood reds. Displayed within temperature- and …
What Can Be Done About Gun Violence?
During a Harvard discussion on gun violence earlier this week, Steven Dettelbach, J.D. ’91, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), began by laying out the stakes. He described the “parade of tragedy and loss” that …
Harvard Basketball's Sibling Stars
On a Friday this October, Mason ’22 and McKenzie ’23 Forbes were standing outside Lavietes Pavilion, bobbing to music and smiling as their friends played cornhole and noshed on pizza. With temperatures lingering in the 60s, it seemed as though they could …
Harvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”
The Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming , appointed by President Lawrence S. Bacow in October 2020 and led by president emerita Drew Faust, today released its report on the circumstances under which individuals’ names or representations might …
Portraying Larry Summers
Sixteen years after the portrait of President Neil L. Rudenstine (1991-2001) was unveiled in the Faculty Room in University Hall, that of his successor, Lawrence H. Summers (2001-2006), was introduced at a celebration in Widener Library on September 23. …
Issue: November-December 2022