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Michael Mina: Why do we still need rapid tests?
Why do we still need rapid tests? Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools. Topics include using rapid tests to protect gatherings of friends and family; the differences between rapid tests …
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Commencement Voices The Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on Commencement afternoon, June 9, will be actor John A. Lithgow ’67 ( Third Rock from the Sun on television, M. Butterfly on Broadway), a former member of the Board of Overseers, a campus …
Issue: May-June 2005
A Victory—and a Campaign
Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days later—declares victory and outlines a future campaign. The retrospective victory …
Issue: November-December 2012
Championship Complications
On a Sunday morning in late January 2009, the Harvard men’s basketball team gathered at Lavietes Pavilion, anxious about what awaited them. After toppling Boston College earlier that month—the program’s first victory over a ranked opponent—the Crimson had …
Issue: March-April 2015
Harvard Health Benefits: The Administration Responds
In light of strong Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) opposition to the changes in Harvard health benefits for nonunion employees unveiled September 3 , President Drew Faust sent a long message to faculty members on the evening of November 13 (see text …
Coronavirus Closes Classes
The third shoe has dropped, as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread. The University’s site for information on countermeasures is updated continuously. Highlights appear here. Updated March 12, 2020, 2:45 p.m.: Ivy League athletic practices and …
A Report on the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) convened in University Hall on Tuesday, February 7, its first meeting of the spring term, with discussion of the undergraduate curriculum as the chief item on its agenda. Instead, discussion focused principally on …
Arts and Sciences: Better Budget, Burgeoning Ambitions
Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days later—declares victory and outlines a future campaign. Stabilizing Finances The …
Changemaker in Admissions
The fourth of seven children, David L. Evans grew up in Arkansas in one of the nation’s poorest counties. His grandmother was born into slavery, and his parents, who died before Evans graduated from high school, were sharecroppers with little formal …
Issue: September-October 2020
Polishing off Plastic Pollution?
“There’s a great future in plastics.” The iconic line, advice to a fresh-from-college ingenué played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film The Graduate , was intended for laughs. But in 2023, it highlights a grim reality. The world’s economies generate …
Issue: September-October 2023
News Briefs
Putting the A(RT) in Allston On February 25 , the University announced that the $12.5-million ArtLab, an interdisciplinary art-making and performance space, was preparing to open, and that curator and arts professional Bree Edwards, formerly director of …
Issue: May-June 2019
Whither the Harvard Endowment?
The University’s endowment—its largest revenue source by far— was valued at $37.6 billion as of June 30, 2015 (the end of that fiscal year, and the most recent reporting date). In nominal terms, not adjusted for inflation, that was an important milestone: …
“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 …
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 …
Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Economics Facility
Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has made a $100-million commitment to build a new home for the economics department, the University announced today. Beyond satisfying a long-term need for the economics faculty, the gift …