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When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy
REVISITING WILDFIRES AND PUBLIC HEALTH In light of recent events in Los Angeles, we are resharing this relevant article on wildfires and their effect on air quality. In the below Q&A from 2023, Joseph “Joe” Allen, an associate professor of exposure …
Learning How to Disagree
In the weeks following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Tarek Masoud, Ford Foundation professor of democracy and governance, convened a series of panels at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the history and future of the Israel-Palestine …
Addressing Big Questions
The ROTC Commissioning Ceremony , conducted Wednesday morning, focuses attention on a small number of graduating students (four members of the class of 2015) who have made an extraordinary commitment to service. This year, it was also an occasion for …
Issue: July-August 2015
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Immigrant Children Thank you for the enlightening article, “ From Neither Here Nor There ,” by Lydialyle Gibson, about the work of sociologist Roberto Gonzales (July-August, page 32). He shows us the heartbreak and ruin of so many lives, due to our …
Issue: September-October 2020
Ruth J. Simmons’s Harvard Graduation Address
A Time for Justice - A Time for Commitment Good day and congratulations to the Harvard University Class of 2021. It is a singular honor to be invited to address you on this important milestone occasion. To all completing their studies today, I offer my …
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EVs " Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle? ” (September-October, page 9) certainly took a glass-half-empty approach. To suggest that some people are better off burning gasoline if they care about the environment is dangerously short-sighted. How are …
Issue: November-December 2022
Rolling Along
Before the Harvard football team kicked off the school’s 142nd gridiron season, coach Tim Murphy’s toughest foe was a familiar one: his 2014 squad, one of the greatest in Crimson history. This year, after all, could not end any better than last year’s …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard’s Sexual-Assault Problem
On September 21 , Harvard released the results of a sexual-conduct survey conducted among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students during the spring of 2015. The results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public Association …
Issue: November-December 2015
Locked In
The lingering symbols of this past spring semester are surely the laminated signs, zip-tied to locked iron gates, starkly stating, “Harvard Yard Closed” and directing those with University IDs to use the Widener, Meyer, or Lamont gates, where security …
Issue: July-August 2024
Health Benefits to Cost 7 Percent More
As the annual employee enrollment in health and other benefits approaches, beneficiaries—and the University—will find themselves in familiar terrain as they look toward calendar year 2017: The health programs will look similar to those offered last year , …
A Melting World
Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford Washburn Jr. ’33, A.M. ’60, L.H.D. ’75, during a lifetime of exploratory cartography captured a frozen wilderness that …
Issue: May-June 2006
History Minted
The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. "Made of silver and bronze as well as gold, some of them rank as miniature masterpieces of classical art," Professor David Gordon Mitten had said on the day of the robbery. On the …
Megan Marshall ’77 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07, has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life , an account of the nineteenth-century Cambridge-born author, journalist, critic, and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died with …
Making Charitable Giving More Competent
Psychologists and moral philosophers have long known that positive emotions drive charitable giving, and nonprofits rely on this impulse to help others when they solicit donations. But what if some of these same warm feelings actually prevent donors from …
Issue: May-June 2023
Unfinished Business
The End of any administration is an occasion to reflect upon what has been accomplished, and for speculation about what may be forthcoming. This magazine will report on Lawrence S. Bacow’s service as it concludes after Commencement and Claudine Gay’s as …
Issue: May-June 2023