Search
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
… On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President … briefly to “acknowledge someone whose generosity of time and talent has shaped and altered forever the lives of countless students at Harvard.” He was talking about Jack …
“Is Precision Medicine for Everyone?”
… David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, is concerned that personalized …
Issue: May-June 2018
On the Margins
… Five whitewater kayakers gather on the banks of Peru’s Paucartambo River to deliberate … whether to paddle through an especially perilous section of rapids or carry their boats around it. They’re halfway …
Issue: July-August 2025
Aiding the “Doubly Disadvantaged”
… Seemingly in unison , elite colleges like Harvard have in the last decade opened their doors to more students from poor families than ever before. Eighteen percent of today’s Harvard undergraduates receive federal Pell … trying to curry favor with their superiors. “I was surprised,” Jack says, “by how meritocratic the doubly …
Issue: September-October 2016
Making the United States Competitive
… The United States is struggling: wages are stagnant, … says Michael Porter , Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), U.S. firms are … but they’re not producing a rising standard of living for American workers. An economy isn’t competitive …
Protesters Disrupt the President
… was coming Thursday evening as he introduced an Institute of Politics event featuring President Lawrence S. Bacow. Standing onstage at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Elmendorf exhorted those in … demanding that Harvard divest its $39-billion endowment of companies involved in the fossil-fuel and prison …
Genetics and the Human Revolution
… pen to paper, stylus to tablet, or even brush to cave wall, their comings and goings were noted in another record, within their very cells. The human genome consists of chunks of DNA passed forward from countless ancestors, so … evidence indicates that these behaviors did not arise as rapidly as once thought, with evidence of dispersed …
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
… The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 … I feel no affection and to an editor with whom on ninety of a hundred points I must rush to disagree. They would not …
The College’s New Dean
… Rakesh Khurana , Bower professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of …
Issue: March-April 2014
The $2-Trillion War
… in a democratic society whose citizens expect to know what they are paying for, someone has to do it. Linda Bilmes, lecturer in public policy, began the task of toting up the fiscal outlay on the Iraq war when students … them faster than we make them.” Reenlistment bonuses have risen from $25,000 to as high as $150,000. “Those costs will …
Issue: May-June 2006
Beyond the Transcript
… Last year, Harvard's senior admissions officers urged applicants to the College-- and their parents--to relax a little, lest the rising generation of undergraduates pursue achievement so relentlessly that …
Issue: November-December 2001
Academic Access, Education Reform
… Ava Clayton Spencer, who concluded 15 years of Harvard service as vice president for policy on June 30, was inaugurated as the eighth president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, … unites excellence and opportunity at the heart of the enterprise, allowing talented students regardless of background or …
The Vernacular
… Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard shibboleth” in the 1970s when her late husband, James ’49, LL.B. ’51, former dean of the Law School and Pound professor of law, was master of Dunster House. “Jim and I had …
Issue: September-October 2007
Save the Date: President Gay Installation
… P resident-elect Claudine Gay, who assumes office July 1 , will be formally installed on Friday, September 29, the Office of the University Marshal announced today . No …
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
… On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 … pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and … his home in Compton, California, to Pan Pacific Park in the Los Angeles Fairfax District. There, he joined thousands …