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Leading with Care
In September 2016, a 4:30 A.M. phone call woke Michael Hill ’93, then general manager of baseball’s Miami Marlins, from a sound sleep. The team’s star pitcher, 24-year-old José Fernández, was dead. The young man was more than a player to Hill—the pair had …
Issue: March-April 2024
Harvesting Autumn at Ward’s Berry Farm
Maybe it’s the jolly rotundity, or that splash of orange and cozy look of a candlelit jack-o’-lantern as the autumn days shorten toward winter. Whatever the cause, pumpkin season seems to bring a jolt of joy to New Englanders. “Pick your own starts at the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvey Mansfield’s Last Class
Until almost the end, it felt like any normal day in Harvey C. Mansfield’s Government 1026 course, “The Political Science of American Democracy.” Students filed into a Sever Hall classroom for a lesson on republicanism, while Mansfield himself, the Kenan …
Where the Grass Is Greener
Not infrequently, companies lure professors to highly paid positions directing scientific research in pharmaceuticals, technology, and related fields. But the recent departures of some leading Harvard scientists deeply committed to improving human health …
Issue: January-February 2025
All In Her Head
Georgina Milne ’21 stands straight, preparing to execute a daunting front three-and-a-half tuck. One of the country’s best collegiate divers from the three-meter springboard, she knows the seven half-rotations will take unwavering focus, tight execution, …
Issue: July-August 2020
The Taliban and Trauma
On January 22, 2022, Anne Hallward ’88, M.D. ’97, a board-certified psychiatrist and host and founder of Safe Space Radio, was sitting in her home in Portland, Maine, when she heard the “ping” of an incoming Facebook message. She clicked. It was an old …
The Fight for the Republic
In 2021, the United States failed for the first time in its history to achieve a peaceful transfer of presidential power. The events of January 6, observes conservative commentator William “Bill” Kristol ’73, Ph.D. ’79—and the enabling political rhetoric …
The Keystone XL Pipeline
Few domestic policy issues have prompted more controversy recently than whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents contend that it would enhance access to Canadian oil, significantly increasing U.S. and North American energy security. Opponents …
Issue: November-December 2013
Acting on Slavery’s Legacy
A year after Harvard released a report detailing its historical connections to slavery and pledged $100 million toward a series of reparative steps, the work of fulfilling those recommendations has started to take shape (see harvardmag.com/after-report-22 …
Issue: May-June 2023
Thomas J. Hollister Appointed Harvard’s CFO
Thomas J. Hollister, a former banking executive, has been appointed chief financial officer and vice president for finance, as of the middle of May. He will fill an important vacancy in the University’s senior administrative ranks, created when Dan Shore, …
Systems Biological and Quantitative
Gary King , Florence professor of government, and Marc W. Kirschner, Walter professor of systems biology, have been named University Professors, Harvard’s most distinguished faculty position. King, founder and director of the Institute for Quantitative …
Issue: September-October 2009
Harvard Forward Unveils Second Overseer Slate
No sooner has one hard-fought, protracted election campaign ended than a new one begins. No, not Trump vs. Biden. Rather, Harvard Forward has unveiled its second slate of candidates who will petition for nomination to be elected to Harvard’s Board of …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Ric Zimmerman ’68
In normal times , the Harvard football team and its hardy followers would be trekking up to Hanover, New Hampshire, this Saturday to face longtime Ivy rival Dartmouth. The Crimson leads the series, which began in 1882, 71-47-5, but the Big Green have won …
Boats and Coats
B y all means. Nathaniel Phillips Carleton ’51, Ph.D. ’56, a physicist-turned-astronomer who practiced his craft for many years at the Harvard-Smithson- ian Center for Astrophysics, died on February 25, at age 90. He had an early hand in arraying smaller …
Issue: May-June 2020
Making Art Work
At Baltimore’s Johnston Square Elementary School, hundreds of students and staffers pour through the doors twice a day, braving intersections where cars travel up to 80 miles an hour. Nearby, not long ago, a toddler was struck and killed. The crossing …
Issue: September-October 2022