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Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
… by adjusting ventilation rates in its workplace. On paper, the outcome would seem overwhelmingly positive: fewer … Joseph Allen and his team at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) describe as the potentially serious … both energy-efficient and healthy,” says Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science. In 2015, his team …
Issue: May-June 2017
The Graduate School Agenda
… Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) spelled out … and many social-science students pursue a "lonelier enterprise," first acquiring a broad body of knowledge before …
The Uncertain Art
… doubt." Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. … a little trepidation, wondering what new situation will arise during that shift. Our culture has difficulty accepting …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Irresistible Allison Feaster
… When the clock ran out on the Boston Celtics’ first game against the Brooklyn Nets in last season’s NBA playoffs—a chaotic, glorious, preposterous win that would help … how they were going to win, how they were going to surprise everyone. And then they did. “Like, no doubt—from the …
Issue: November-December 2022
A “Pirates of Penzance” Party
… Theatergoers on their way into the Loeb Drama Center’s … already in progress before the opening curtain: the cast of the innovative production of The Pirates of Penzance at the ART wearing leis, shorts, …
The MCZ at 150
… By 1856, Swiss naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz had amassed all the necessities for a new museum on campus. The funds had been charmed out of the coffers of wealthy Bostonians. The collections, …
From the Archives: The Millennial Class
… Later today, the nearly 40,000 applicants to Harvard College’s class of 2021 will receive their decisions. Only a small fraction … friends who have overheard me belting out the lyrics to "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof while in the shower. …
Tale of a Hamptons Town and a Troubled Filmmaker
… The Boston Globe recently ran an insightful review of The Windmill Movie , a film about the life of Richard Rogers ’67, Ed.M. ’70. As the review notes, …
Saluting the 2018 Centennial Medalists
… THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Off the Shelf
… The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World, by Michael Wheeler, MBA Class of 1952 professor of management practice, retired (Simon & … (1825-1975) history of Crimson maths—the period of the rise of American mathematics, with a confident prediction …
Issue: November-December 2013
The Aging Brain
… as a way to understand normal brain functions. But doing the opposite also works. A group of researchers at Harvard recently looked at the effects of aging on healthy people’s brains and found that as we get …
Issue: May-June 2008
Harvard Reveals Healthcare Costs
… In the wake of faculty members’ sharp objections to Harvard’s … $46-million adjustment in pension expense, those figures rise to 34.3 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively). From … of costs. As University spending for medical benefits has risen from $48.3 million in fiscal 2001 to $155.7 million in …
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86
… Barack Obama has selected Arne Duncan '86 as his Secretary of Education, the New York Times reported . Duncan became superintendent of Chicago's schools in 2001, and has been credited with …
The Long View
… From its very first day , the Harvard College class of 1950 has been remarkable. Its … Harvey '71, M.B.A. '74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Barbara J. Wu, Ph.D. '81; A.B. '75 Smith …
Harvard in Russa: Conflicts of Interest
… The key role that the Harvard Institute for International … a $14-million grant to HIID, pending the conclusion of an investigation into whether two leading figures in the … the public trust by using their positions for private profit. On June 6 USAID canceled the grant and said it would …