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“Today You Join Something That Is Larger than Yourself”
Lieutenant General Maria B. Barrett, commanding general of the U.S. Army Cyber Command and among the highest-ranking women in the U.S. Army, today delivered the oath of office to 16 ROTC graduates commissioned into the United States armed forces—by far …
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
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. ’89, and Emmanuelle Charpentier Share Chemistry Nobel
The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded jointly this morning to Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, and Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. ’89, of the University of California, Berkeley, for their development …
Pete Seeger ’40 Sings for Occupy Wall Street
Pete Seeger '40, who dropped out of Harvard in the late 1930s to pursue a lifelong career as a singer and political activist, gave a concert in Manhattan Friday evening at Symphony Space, at 95th and Broadway, along with Arlo Guthrie and others. Then, as …
Health Benefits.2016
Last fall , when the University announced the introduction of long-rumored annual deductibles and coinsurance for certain health-insurance costs effective in 2015 , some of the affected employees (faculty and nonunionized staff members, plus postdoctoral …
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, …
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 …
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
The Medical Civil Rights Act
In 2015, Robert Dluhy ’62, a physician at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, watched in horror with much of the country as the story of 25-year-old Freddie Gray unfolded on national television. Gray, a black man, had been …
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, …
Weighing In
The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even ideological. On March 12, in the Sunday Telegraph , Tisch professor of history Niall Ferguson—no left-wing …
Issue: May-June 2006
A Borrower Be
In late 2008 , at the depths of the financial crisis, the University borrowed $2.5 billion, expensively (at tax-exempt and taxable interest rates of 5.4 percent and 5.8 percent) to shore up its liquidity and provide flexibility within the endowment, and …
Issue: November-December 2015
Quantum SCIENCE Quarters
Interior demolition work proceeded during the summer at 60 Oxford Street, formerly a Harvard computer facility, as it is completely renovated into the new home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program, approved in 2021 (see …
Issue: September-October 2022
Meaningful Metrics
The U.S. Department of Education’s promised college-ratings system (aimed at helping families make informed decisions about access, affordability, and student outcomes) doesn’t have many friends on the nation’s elite, selective campuses. President Drew …
Issue: July-August 2015
Emerging Maine Artists
Maine-based art can sometimes exhibit tired tropes: lobster buoys piled on a wharf; sailboats dotting a sunny harbor; pine trees and craggy rocks along the ocean. There’s none of that, though, in As We Are. This show of works by 14 emerging Maine artists …
Issue: March-April 2025