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Diversifying Diet
Diversifying one’s assets is useful not only in finance but also in diet, according to an October study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Though not many people have heard of the “portfolio diet”—consisting of plant-based foods …
Issue: May-June 2024
The Fiscal Crunch
With no relief since the University’s early-December announcement that the endowment’s value had declined sharply (see “ Harder Times ,” January-February, page 47), Harvard faces significant spending reductions—likely to affect both employees and perhaps …
Issue: March-April 2009
Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?
At Harvard, there are research areas that can’t be investigated, subjects that can’t be broached in public, and ideas that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So say a group of Harvard professors, now more than 120 strong, who have formed a Council on …
Speaking Volumes
A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Holdings at Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of …
Issue: September-October 2023
Harvard Management Company Leader Takes Medical Leave
The University announced this morning that Stephen Blyth, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company—which invests the endowment assets—is taking a temporary medical leave of absence, effective immediately. Blyth assumed his …
Defying the Doldrums
Jon Schaefer grew up in Charlemont, a community of nearly 1,300 that lies between Williamstown and Interstate 91. His family owns the local Berkshire East Mountain Resort, where he and his siblings, and most everyone in the hill-towns region, learned to …
Issue: January-February 2021
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2024 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 14, …
Issue: May-June 2024
Creative Ventures
If any place exemplifies the pleasures of shopping locally, it’s Ouimille. The stores, in Cambridge and Boston, feel like a creative fête, a 24/7 kaleidoscopic fashion week array of audacious clothing and accessories. It’s a creative environment that …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Medical-Robotics Revolution
What if a cardiac surgeon could operate on a beating heart without opening the patient’s chest? Or a flexible robot could navigate the delicate branching of blood vessels, or bronchi in the lungs, and then stiffen to perform surgery at its tip? Or a …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Financial Fallout
In the fall of 2008, as banks and markets collapsed, Harvard discovered enormous problems in its own financial structure and operations. By year’s end, under duress, the University had to borrow $2.5 billion at high interest rates to maintain liquidity …
Stephen Blyth Resigns from Harvard Management Company
The University announced that Stephen Blyth, president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) since the beginning of 2015, has resigned. He went on medical leave in late May , as reported. The personnel transition comes at a critical time: the …
Blake Alexander Lopez ’24, Latin Salutatory: “Distantia Propinquior” (“A Nearer Distance”)
As prepared for delivery. Distantia Propinquior ORATIO SALVTATORIA CANTABRIGIÆ NOV-ANGLORVM IN COMITIIS ACADEMICIS HABITA A. D. X. KAL. IVN. ANN. DOM. MMXXIV. REIPVB. AMERICANÆ CCXLVIII. COLL. HARV. CCCLXXXVIII. AVete, Praeses Garber, clarissimi decani, …
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
This is the eighth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s 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, famous and …
Debating Diversity
… share of underrepresented minority faculty to 18 percent by 2025. Recent history suggests that such changes won’t come …
Issue: March-April 2016
Former Overseer Diana Nelson ’84 Named to the Harvard Corporation
Diana L. Nelson ’84 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced on Monday. Her term of office begins officially on July 1. Nelson has previously co-chaired the College Fund, served on the Radcliffe Institute’s dean’s …