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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. …
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
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
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 …
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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Defying Limits
One spring day in Las Vegas, adventure-writer David Roberts ’65 set out for a round of golf with Alex Honnold, the world’s foremost free-soloist. More than a generation apart, the two men have shared a fanatical drive to ascend, and grew close while …
Issue: January-February 2021
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 …
People-Powered Journalism
With 20 years of hindsight, to many the U.S. war in Afghanistan looks tragically ill-conceived. But in the wake of 9/11, critics of the invasion, when they were heard at all, were regarded as naïve, even un-American. Amy Goodman ’84, host of the …
Issue: November-December 2021
Francesca Dominici: How Does Air Pollution Affect COVID-19?
How does the air we breathe affect our body’s reaction to COVID-19? Early on in the pandemic Francesca Dominici, Gamble professor of biostatistics, population, and data science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explored this question …
In Flight
In the fall of 2015, Maciek Nabrdalik , a Warsaw-based documentary photographer, turned to a contemporary humanitarian crisis: the plight of refugees fleeing ceaseless wars. Nabrdalik, a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard this year, is studying …
Issue: January-February 2017