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What Makes Teams Tick
Many of the most pressing issues of our time—climate change, economic inequality, human rights—require interdisciplinary solutions. Yet facilitating collaboration among individuals from disparate fields can often be challenging. A recent study on what …
Issue: July-August 2016
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
Update: Harvard Encampment Ends
UPDATE: May 20, 11:45 A.M. On Friday , May 17, Harvard College placed 23 students on multi-semester probation and suspended five students for their involvement in the Yard encampment , according to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP). The group says …
Narrowing School Achievement Gaps
Education experts and political leaders from across the country gathered at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on Tuesday for the first convening of a new initiative that seeks to combat inequality in American K-12 education. The project, …
Harvard Responds to Congressional Endowment Queries
Republican members of the United States Congress have periodically sought to jawbone endowed private colleges and universities into spending more of their income and assets—particularly on undergraduate financial aid, and sometimes for other purposes. …
A Gene Therapy Breakthrough
As a young man, Sharif Tabebordbar remembers seeing his father struggling to play soccer, and then losing the ability to ride a bike. He could only watch as his father declined, his once healthy body ravaged by a degenerative muscle disease that …
COVID-19 and the Graduate Student Union
May 1 marked two years since the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) was certified after Harvard graduate students voted to unionize. It was also the union’s most recent bargaining session with the University with a federal …
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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
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 …
Overseers Election Update: Voting Postponed
Updated March 31, 2020 . This news announcement updates yesterday’s post about the election and various endorsements of candidates, from both the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee slates and the Overseer petition candidates …
Predicting Viral Variants and Vaccine Cures
In medicine, “There’s a quiet revolution happening at the moment,” says professor of systems biology Debora Marks. Most people have become familiar with artificial intelligence through chatbots such as ChatGPT, which function by predicting the next word …
Issue: November-December 2024
New Digs
New digs: Claudine Gay settles in at Massachusetts Hall—just across the Old Yard from her former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean’s office in University Hall—on July 5, the first (post-holiday) workday in the thirtieth president’s new administration. A …
Issue: September-October 2023
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
Reunions are practically invented for storytellers. “There’s this amazing dramatic structure built into our lives as college graduates who are invited to return to campus every five years,” says the South African-born, Australian writer Ceridwen Dovey …
Diagnosing the “Skills Gap”
The problem : There’s a “skills gap” in the American workforce. Employers searching for skilled candidates can’t find them—even as candidates applying to hundreds of jobs can’t get hired. The diagnosis: an underperforming partnership between community …
At Home with Harvard: Nature Walks
This is the fifth installment in Harvard Magazine’ s new 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 and spring …