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“Be the Voice of Health”
… , Class Day speaker for Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is best known as the pediatrician, … advocate whose research exposed lead poisoning in the water of Flint, Michigan, in 2015—and indeed, much of her speech …
Seeds of Greatness
… Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or … plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as compared to a mere 750 of everything else: a … the fruits, vegetables, and grains, for example. The rise of the angiosperms 140 million years ago, in the early …
“The Duties of Imagination”
… College seniors and their families convened in Sanders Theatre for the 229th Phi … purely celebratory events yet to come. This year’s edition of the PBK exercises ( read the program here), the first … to end our conversation at that point and trying to get a rise out of my parents, I said, “Mom, Dad. Be sure to watch …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
… I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” … Melvin B. Miller ’56 told this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to … a different opinion.” As founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner —a newspaper primarily for and about …
Issue: March-April 2022
Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere
… There was still some light in the sky that evening after … shuffling over to find a spot near the fire. The heat of the day had faded only slightly. Still, they were … of you is important. In the wilderness, away from X-ray machines and MRIs and blood-chemistry workups, the patient’s …
Issue: November-December 2017
The Dark Side of Boston
… evening, Boston’s North End is buzzing. Done with tours of Old North Church or the Paul Revere House, or just arriving for a fun night out, … or head to Copp’s Hill Terrace for romantic views of Boston Harbor. The city’s oldest neighborhood wasn’t …
Issue: September-October 2018
“The Wise Person Learns from All People”
… seniors, President Lawrence S. Bacow recalled that in the fall of 2019, he had told this class at their freshman convocation that “Anyone who is thinking of the next four years as a series of stepping stones to a …
“The Path of Most Resistance”
… activist Cecile Richards’s Convocation speech at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) on Wednesday could not have been … inaction on gun violence, as urgent public-health crises. “Since I’ve left Planned Parenthood, I’ve joined …
Yesterday's News
… Bonaparte, A.B. 1899, declines an invitation to ascend the Albanian throne. “Sometimes Harvard indifference is … too far,” comment Bulletin editors. 1927 At a Harvard Club of Boston colloquium titled “What is the Sub-Freshman … and is about to be extended to laundry and vending machines in all undergraduate dorms and Houses. … From the …
Issue: January-February 2017
To the Rescue
… On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban—August 15, 2021—Omaid … Sharifi was in his usual place: on the street with a team of artists, painting a mural on one of the concrete blast … by David Peterson Still, August 15 took Sharifi by surprise. He and fellow activists spent half the day painting in …
Issue: January-February 2023
Behind the Scenes: The Power of Human Connection
… A couple of years ago, a friend of mine—like me, a writer and reporter , and also like me a … very true. People like us, he said, go into journalism for the writing , only to discover that it’s the reporting …
The Federal Fisc
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf
Issue: May-June 2020
A New Story of Suffrage
… If the women’s suffrage movement took place today, what would … to spread the word about their cause. Today’s world of online activism can feel deprived of that vitality—which … during this period, including industrialization and the rise of wage labor, might provide a richer explanation for …
Issue: May-June 2019
Richard P. Lifton Elected to Harvard Corporation
… RICHARD P. Lifton , president of The Rockefeller University since 2016, will become a member … of mutations in 20 genes that cause blood pressure to rise or fall to extremes by altering renal salt …
Title IX and the Critique of the Neoliberal University
… The debate around sexual-assault policy, at Harvard and … a more limited role for universities in the private lives of students, and worry, during a moment of national outrage at college sexual violence, that …