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COVID-19 Common Sense
… A November 17 news briefing by Harvard and other Boston area experts on the current state of COVID-19 in the United States began with a “weather … report:” Case data no longer reflect the intensity of the pandemic, said Harvard Medical School (HMS) assistant …
The Center for Wellness and Health Communication
… fit without being well," says Keli M. Ballinger, suggesting the holistic approach of the University Health Services' (UHS) "wellness center," … for the UHS Mind/Body Medical Institute (MBMI), an outpost of the eponymous program that Mind/Body Medical Institute …
Issue: March-April 2002
“My Time in the Paint”
… for a film on eco-tourism that I would be producing as part of my upcoming postgraduate fellowship. Painfully aware that … began scheduling conversations with journalists from within the Harvard network whom I saw doing work I admired. I was scheduled to speak first with Professor Alfred Guzzetti to discuss his time shooting in …
The “Global Chemical Experiment”
… Elsie Sunderland grew up where the sea was as present as the land: a small rural community … tied to the ocean. But Sunderland, Cabot associate professor of environmental science and engineering, also remembers an …
Issue: July-August 2018
Will Congress Fix the Testing Debacle?
… As Congress raced to craft a coronavirus stimulus bill in the second week of December, the question foremost on epidemiologist Michael … Mina’s mind was whether funding for accelerated production of rapid tests—$1 paper tests that can be used in the home …
The HSPH Centennial Leadership Summit
… The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) followed Thursday night’s unveiling of its $450-million capital campaign with a Centennial … about the third theme, addressing poverty and humanitarian crises. Lastly, to address “failing health systems,” Frenk …
Repressed Memory
… Are some experiences so horrific that the human brain seals them away, only to recall them years later? The concept of “repressed memory,” known by the diagnostic term … hope to answer these questions in the future. “Clearly the rise of Romanticism, at the end of the Enlightenment, …
Issue: January-February 2008
The Berensons and Harvard
… in the fall of 1884, before Bernard Berenson (A.B. 1887) and … and Italian Renaissance art, amassing a vast collection they donated to Harvard (along with their Italian villa), they were a pair of eager college students with scant knowledge of the art …
Coming Apart Together
… clearly when he first took an interest in words, when the urge—and then the need—to write first grabbed him. It … film explained, was that he’d been reading poetry. “A lot of Sylvia Plath,” McCrae recalls. In a funeral scene, one … are fractured, lines interrupted; sometimes the whole enterprise races to a halt. His poem “Claiming Language” ends this …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Master Leads
… In the fall of 1973, Robert J. Kiely ’60, his wife, Jana, and their three young children moved into Adams House, and he began a 26-year tenure as master. Now Loker professor of English emeritus, Kiely was asked by the Adams …
Issue: November-December 2011
First Principles, on the Web
… Harvard scholars do so in all political and social weathers, of course, sometimes through interesting collaborative ventures. Two of note bear in diverse ways on ethical conduct and on human …
Issue: January-February 2003
Making the Public Record Public
… librarians are tasked with protecting books. But over the past decade, Harvard Law School (HLS) librarians have sent tens of thousands of books to the literary guillotine, severing their spines …
Galbraith v. the Supply-Siders
… Richard Parker, who directs the program on economics and journalism at the Kennedy … a meticulous, meaty, and colorful authorized biography of a liberal icon, the Warburg professor of economics emeritus -- John Kenneth Galbraith: His …
Issue: March-April 2005
“The Busiest Man in Poker”
… In 2003 , when a complete amateur named Chris Moneymaker won the $2.5-million first prize at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the game’s highest-profile event, Bernard Lee ’92 had already been playing poker …
Issue: November-December 2012
Staging a Harvard Tradition
… Every June, on Commencement day, Harvard rolls out the crimson carpet for about 32,000 people. It is arguably … in a good mood," says Hoopes Wampler, Ed.M. '99, director of College alumni programs at the Harvard Alumni … "going crazy." The counting behind him, he has seen the sun rise, and moved on to last-minute tasks. "At a certain …
Issue: May-June 2002