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At Home with Harvard: Medical Breakthroughs
This is the seventh installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, famous and …
Words with No Freedom
“Free should the scholar be,” claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. “Free even to the definition of freedom.” Speaking to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society, the writer was inviting students to engage in debate and inquiry unrestrained by any kind of …
Breaking Ground in Allston
On November 1, the Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC) and development partner Tishman Speyer hosted a groundbreaking ceremony in Boston’s Allston neighborhood to mark the beginning of construction on the enterprise research campus (ERC). The event, …
From War Zones to the North Shore
As a foreign correspondent , war reporter, and food writer, Wendell Steavenson has spent more than 20 years working in cities like Baghdad, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Tbilisi. She’s written about refugee cooks from Syria, the new spice barons of Madagascar’s …
Issue: March-April 2023
New University Appointments
A new CEO at the Harvard Management Company; plus a new director at the Center for International Development. On the Harvard Management Company (which invests the endowment): See “ Stellar Swan Song ,” November-December 2005. University news release: New …
An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions
“I think we are facing an existential crisis as a University,” said Ali Asani during a panel discussion on religious pluralism last Friday afternoon at the Harvard Divinity School, during which the campus divides over Israel-Palestine were at times front …
Brevia
Heading home James E. Ryan , who left the University of Virginia’s law school to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in September 2013, will return to Charlottesville as president of UVA, effective October 1. Ryan has had signal …
Issue: November-December 2017
Instructor Angell Shares His Enthusiasm
New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell ’42, who has a long-running devotion to the game of baseball, has now produced an episodic, always engaging memoir, Let Me Finish ( Harcourt , $25), in which he writes about another old love—a machine gun. …
Issue: May-June 2006
Off the Shelf
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, by Jonathan Cohn ’91 (St. Martin’s, $29.99). A veteran health-care reporter recounts the making of the Affordable Care Act. The value lies less in each detail than in recalling …
Issue: May-June 2021
New Rules for Campus Use
Though students are on summer recess, Harvard administrators have continued to grapple with the past academic year’s campus chaos . On August 1, executive vice president Meredith Weenick shared an updated slate of rules governing shared campus spaces. …
Animal (Code) Cracker
The July-August cover story about efforts to decode the click communication of sperm whales prompted numerous letters, including one that detailed the involvement of a talented undergraduate, Peter Bermant ’19, in the project’s origins. He ultimately …
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Compensation
The University today released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2015 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016— Harvard’s fiscal year 2016 ). As is its practice, Harvard has simultaneously disseminated information …
Stellar Seniors
Each year, Harvard College grants degrees to some 1,600 students, each of whom possesses gifts and abilities that count in the wider world. The following profiles offer merely a sample of this year’s seniors, who—in the words of classmate Kwame …
Issue: May-June 2006
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Athletics Angles Anent the letter in the March-April issue about football : should Harvard not take the lead in banning this dangerous sport? There is compelling evidence of lasting—and potentially lethal (suicide)—psychological/neurological adverse …
Issue: May-June 2015
Off the Shelf
A Synthesizing Mind, by Howard Gardner, research professor on education (MIT, $29.95). In this memoir, the creator of multiple-intelligences theory—and one of the longest-running members of the Harvard community—turns his wide-ranging curiosity on his own …
Issue: September-October 2020