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The $16-Trillion Virus
The final tally of economic damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 will have to wait for the pandemic’s end, but in the meantime, two eminent economists have estimated the cost in the United States alone at $16 trillion. Eckstein professor of applied economics David …
Extracurriculars
A full slate of activities can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from performances of children's theater and French baroque dance music, to displays of Japanese calligraphy and Native American history. SEASONAL Arts First …
Issue: March-April 2005
Sasha
When Sasha joined Harvard’s staff in August 2022, she became the first non-human to receive a University ID. The Labrador Retriever recently graduated from Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit that trains incarcerated people to raise service dogs for veterans …
Issue: May-June 2024
Easing the Energy Transition
What are the biggest economic obstacles to the needed rapid transition in energy supplies and the challenges of deforestation driven by climate change? Leon Clarke, director of decarbonization pathways at the Bezos Earth Fund, provided a brief …
Studying ChatGPT Like a Psychologist
Ask GPT-4 , the most advanced model of ChatGPT, to decode a string of text written in ROT13—a cipher that involves shifting each letter 13 places forward in the alphabet—and it will successfully complete the task. But ask it to decode a string written in …
Extracurriculars
A full slate of events can be found in and around the University this season, ranging from English Restoration comedy, science-fiction films, and German artists to nature walks, the Kuumba Singers, and ballet theater. This sampler offers something for …
Issue: November-December 2004
Centennial Medalists
The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Jeffrey Epstein’s Extensive Harvard Reach
The Harvard General Counsel’s office, charged last September by President Lawrence S. Bacow to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s gifts to and relationship with the University, found that his financial support did not extend past his conviction on sex charges …
Issue: July-August 2020
Presidents’ Paths
Lawrence S. Bacow, a president emeritus again, has advised many institutions on how to pick good leaders. He always begins with intellectual prowess. Character comes second: those who have a deficit rarely make it up later. Third is what he calls the …
Issue: September-October 2023
Why Can’t We Move?
The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. ’74, is perhaps the foremost analyst of public investments in sports facilities and …
Issue: July-August 2015
Campaigning, College-Style
The Undergraduate Council (UC) unveiled 24-hour Lamont Library access and fatter grants for student groups early in the fall, but soon infuriated its constituents. It planned a concert featuring ’90s rap artist Wyclef and sank $30,000 into a venture it …
Issue: March-April 2006
“Big, Fat, and Sick” Institutions—Can Digital Healthcare Help?
The U.S. healthcare system is “Big, fat, and sick.” So said professor of medicine Jag Singh , speaking at a recent conference in Boston—where his efforts to champion innovations in digital healthcare took center stage. Singh, a former clinical director of …
Brevia
Spotlight on Slavery On April 6—drawing on research conducted by the student-inspired Harvard and Slavery Project—Corporation Senior Fellow William F. Lee , President Drew Faust , and U.S. Representative John R. Lewis , LL.D. ’12, spoke to an audience at …
Issue: July-August 2016
The College’s Strong Admissions Yield
harvard College announced today that nearly 77 percent of students offered admission to the class of 2015 accepted—up from 75.5 percent last year. Harvard reported in March that 2,158 applicants (out of 34,950) had been offered admission—a record-low rate …
Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute
T he University announced this morning that Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, has made a $350-million gift to support the research of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—his fourth: a start-up gift of $125 million in 2008 (then the largest …