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Developing the Brain-Computer Interface
Growing up in New York City, Benjamin Rapoport, A.B.-A.M. ’03, M.D. ’08 (’13), often tagged along on weekend hospital rounds with his neurologist father. Samuel Rapoport was also an electrical engineer and a pioneering electrophysiology specialist who …
Issue: January-February 2025
Mitigating Global Threats
Amid leadership crises across Europe and mounting economic and defense concerns, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, M.P.A. ’97, is on the front lines of diplomacy, working with allies to do “everything we can to promote a global security …
Issue: March-April 2025
Shaping Cities
A new interchange was coming to Cincinnati, and it was about time. The I-71 thoroughfare had connected the city to its suburbs since the 1970s, but its lanes also separated neighborhoods and worsened travel within the city—lengthening commutes and …
Issue: March-April 2021
Quincy Jones and Harvard
LARGELY MISSED in the rush of encomia to beloved musician Quincy Jones, who recently died at the age of 91, were his multiple Harvard connections. He received an honorary doctorate in music in 1997 (“Musician, humanitarian, orchestrator extraordinaire, he …
A Dogged Observer
Daniel Mason ’98 got his idea for his 2023 novel North Woods while walking in a frozen forest, wondering what his dog was sniffing. During a yearlong retreat to Western Massachusetts, he’d wandered the woods, visually researching his book. At first, he …
Issue: March-April 2024
Accelerating Medical Research
Netflix has thrived in part because it knows what movies subscribers have watched—and which films similar viewers have enjoyed. Is there an analogy to this powerful recommendation protocol applicable to medicine? Nelson professor of biomedical informatics …
Issue: January-February 2019
Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20
The maturity of Jaden Craig took a giant step on Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. There, Harvard’s junior quarterback, spreading the ball to eight receivers, picked apart Cornell and led the Crimson to a 38-20 win over the Big Red. …
Readying for a Reckoning
In late January, health policy expert Sara Bleich stepped into a newly created role at the University, as vice provost for special projects, charged with overseeing efforts to implement the seven recommendations laid out last year in a detailed report on …
Buildings and Benefits
The story of Harvard's 2003 budget came down to benefits and buildings. During the 12 months ended last June 30, the University's revenue totaled $2.47 billion—a 5.3 percent increase, just slightly slower growth than in the prior fiscal year. …
Issue: January-February 2004
Saving the News—and Democracy
How has the rise of the Internet and the decline of traditional publications affected the mainstream news industry–and the nation’s democracy? In her book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech …
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, …
Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism, Arab Spring
Islamophobia is a problem in the United States, and anti-Americanism is a problem in the Arab world. Those conflicting realities were the idea behind a series of gifts by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Abdul-aziz Alsaud to six universities, …
“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 …
Visual Music
On a table in the center of Holden Chapel rest a book, an unlit lamp, a potted leafy plant, and a ramekin of water. Visitors at Harvard’s 2017 ARTS FIRST Festival enter the darkened sanctuary one at a time, alone, and don an electroencephalogram (EEG) …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard Files Plan for Allston “Innovation” District
Harvard has publicly filed its proposal to develop its “enterprise research campus” (ERC), a non-academic, commercial “innovation” district in Allston just south of Harvard Business School (HBS) and east of the new science and engineering complex . The …