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The Green Star State
The cost of producing renewable energy from both wind and sun continues to fall, prompting a boom in sustainable electricity production. But this has also led to an auspicious problem: what to do with the excess energy produced from sustainable sources? …
Issue: March-April 2025
Racial Bias and Redistricting
Since late last year, legislators and independent commissions across the United States have been busy redrawing the contours of American democracy. The redistricting process occurs once every decade and is used to create new voting district boundaries …
Issue: March-April 2022
Vote Now
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open through May 16. Degree …
Issue: May-June 2023
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Discourse and the Humanities Doris Sommer’s article on the crucial place of the humanities in holding a democracy together had me nodding enthusiastically right up to the last paragraph (“ Democracy Requests the Pleasure of Your Company, ” May-June, …
Issue: July-August 2021
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With Thanks Marina N. Bolotnikova ’14 joined the editorial staff in November 2015. As associate editor, she wrote penetrating features on subjects ranging from linguistics research to new interpretations of race in America. She directed, and significantly …
Issue: May-June 2021
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
You’ve Got Game
It’s no secret that Harvard alums are an athletic bunch, from Olympians to coaches to legendary sportswriter Roger Angell ’42, who died last month at 101. Whether you’re a pro, a hobbyist, or finally ready to get moving after two-plus years in a pandemic, …
Issue: July-August 2022
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 …
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 …
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 …
Painful Questions from Indigenous Leaders
At a Radcliffe Institute conference intended to launch the process of making amends for Harvard’s long history of injustice against indigenous communities—detailed in a 2022 University report —the biggest agenda item wasn’t listed in the official program: …
Football: Harvard 31- Penn 28
In the 151 years of Harvard football there have been many players who have stepped into the breach to rescue the Crimson. (Think Frank Kenneth Champi ’69, “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.”) Now the name of Charles P. DePrima ’25 must be added to the annals. On …
Courtney B. Vance Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
Actor , producer, and writer Courtney B. Vance ’82 will be the featured speaker at the third annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide celebration of alumni hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The event, which will take place on Friday, May …
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