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An Egyptian Archaeological Treasure
… The discovery of a trove of diaries written by Egyptian workers in the early twentieth century has brought together …
Reforming the Electoral College
… Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission and current chairman of Making Every Vote Count , jokes that he has a unique …
The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself
… When Andrea Baccarelli stepped into his role as dean of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health in January 2024, he could hardly have …
In This Mass Extinction, the Enemy Is Us
… Writing in the May 25 issue of the New Yorker, author Elizabeth Kolbert quotes Fisher professor of natural history Andrew Knoll on the subject of …
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
… For the past year and a half , a Harvard committee deliberated whether to change the name of Winthrop House. The Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery report , published in 2022, said that its two …
The Brain-Behavior Link
… work, or a beagle superb at following a scent? Ever since the domestication of a Pleistocene wolf some 14,000 or more years ago, humans have played a decisive role in the evolution of dogs. First bred for tameness, dogs since then have been …
Issue: July-August 2020
Woven, Not Photographed
… Five strange portraits stand out among the Fine Arts Library’s vast collection of historical photographs. At first, the bright colors catch … sportsmen were not photographed: they were woven. The story of these silk portraits begins in Coventry, a city in …
Issue: November-December 2024
Brevia
… Lawrence H. Summers announced a new interpretation of the University's "Statement on Rights and Responsibilities," … to satisfy the undergraduate language requirement will also rise to 5. The rationale, explained Harry R. Lewis, dean of …
Issue: May-June 2002
Professors Condemn Harvard’s Rebuff of Michelle Jones and Chelsea Manning
… was a bad public-relations episode for Harvard. On Tuesday, the Marshall Project, a news organization covering criminal … that University leadership had reversed the admission of Michelle Jones, who had been recommended for admission to … program; she had served 20 years in prison for the murder of a child she had as a teenager, but subsequently earned a …
The Undergraduate: The Scientist’s Daughter
… My mother has a theory on exactly where she went wrong. We can … brought home an oversized, illustrated children’s anthology of Greek myths. I became obsessed. During long car rides, I … she wants to explain who I am and all the ways I have surprised her. On a weekend, she’ll drive to Cambridge from our …
Issue: July-August 2015
Gearing Up for The Game
… Rafferty ’70 that opened in Manhattan just in time for the big game this weekend. Dargis calls the film … even for those who “routinely shun” the “pagan sacrament” of college football. (If you’re in Cambridge for the big … same year as the My Lai massacre and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy) and writes …
The Arboretum’s Winterland
… Winter is the best time to get out and see New England’s trees in all … their naked glory. The Arnold Arboretum, open year-round, offers just such forays with “Fall Into Health” (November … Kathryn Aalto reveals the magic, at least in the mind of A.A. Milne, of England’s Ashdown Forest in “The Natural …
Issue: November-December 2015
Function and Form
… within that renewal is much that is truly new , reflecting the changed nature of research in particular in an era of larger-scale and … for the new work of the University will soon begin to rise. … Rebuilding, and building, for the twenty-first …
Issue: May-June 2004
Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
… medicine at patients’ expense? According to associate professor of health care policy and medicine Zirui Song and other Harvard researchers, patients in hospitals owned by … the acquired entity’s own infrastructure, its buildings and machines and land are used as the collateral for that debt,” …
Issue: May-June 2024
The First-Generation Gap
… can find students wearing shirts that say “Primus Pride.” They are members of the First Generation Student Union (FGSU), a student … networking and academic workshops; and advocating on behalf of first-generation students. This past spring, FGSU’s …