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The Opioids Emergency
… “We are trying to get the house of medicine back in order.” That’s how one … his work amid the still-mounting opioid epidemic. The scale of the crisis is almost unimaginable—70,000 lives lost to …
Issue: March-April 2019
Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary
… has been appointed vice president and Secretary of the University. Glassburn formerly served in a similar role at MIT, where she coordinated the operations of the MIT Corporation. At Harvard, she will serve as chief …
HBS Halts Hybrid Learning
… Business School (HBS) announced that a rising number of coronavirus cases has forced it to pull back from hybrid (in-class and remote) learning for the rest of the semester. Although the Medical School has … means infections in our community are likely to continue to rise at an unacceptable rate. If the upsurge had taken place …
Working on the Railroad
… usually involved getting on a train and riding across the country for a week or two, stopping at national parks … the 65-year-old has found himself in the unlikely position of being the last hope for the nation's passenger-rail system. Photographs courtesy of Amtrak The new president of the National Passenger …
Issue: November-December 2002
Conversation on Teaching, Continued: Going Global
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its series … and geographies around the world and across time. Given the rise of global communications and economic … becomes insufficient," and in fact, new understandings arise from a "global South" perspective. She saw Harvard as …
News from the HAA
… Overseer (six-year term, five to be elected): Nominated by the HAA Anderson Fergusson Rozlyn L. Anderson '77, J.D. '80. … vice president, Merrill Lynch Trust Company, and director of wealth management strategies, Merrill Lynch Wealth … and Dorr LLP. Richard I. Melvoin '73; Ph.D. '83 University of Michigan. Belmont, Mass. Head, Belmont Hill School. …
Issue: May-June 2002
Giants
… B oston brahmin. The towering Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard … the national historical convention, and to everyone’s surprise, he appeared on the hotel mezzanine crowded with …
Issue: March-April 2020
Liftoff
… The Harvard Campaign , officially launched on September 21 … Health (HSPH). • Financial aid : Much as student need has risen—visibly in the College, but no less urgently for … example, and what was the academy’s role in countering the rise of “truthiness” (Stephen Colbert’s coinage for …
Where the Eyeballs Are
… “These are trying times for political cartoonists,” … “KAL,” lost his job as political cartoonist of the Baltimore Sun a year ago, after 17 years of skewering politicians and others for that audience. The …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Roberts Court
… To honor the life work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), the …
Asserting Power over Technology in an Era of Leaky Bits
… be choosing between two alternative worldviews. In one view of the world, information ubiquity is the natural state; the … such as encryption and anonymous routing, to make the flows of bits less dangerous to us and less conducive to …
Issue: September-October 2011
Concerning the Union, Disunion
… The freshman have had their last supper in the Harvard … work began in early February on a $23-million makeover of the Union, which will become the core of a new humanities … the heart of what is hoped will be a vibrant academic enterprise. How would it be as a baronial living room, where …
Brutish Beginnings
… Colonial history , I’ve often told my students, isn’t pretty. The well-scrubbed Williamsburg, Virginia, that tourists see … much less to the enslaved laborers who made up most of its population in the eighteenth century. And almost …
Issue: January-February 2013
At Medical School, Berwick Tells of Patient’s Death
… Of the thousands of patients the doctors graduating from Harvard Medical School (HMS) …
A Pianist on the World Stage
… Aristo Sham ’19, winner of last month’s New York International Piano Competition (NYIPC), is no stranger to the big stage—he’s been playing the piano since he was three … Conservatory (NEC), won the competition’s first prize of $10,000, plus concert and recital appearances to come. …