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Five Harvardians Win MacArthur Grants
… Five Harvardians have been named fellows by the MacArthur Foundation this year. Commonly referred to as … award is meant as an investment in the future promise of the fellows’ work. The Harvard-affiliated recipients … technology and whose 2017 book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy , examined …
It’s “Not the Earth that Needs Fixing”
… Speaking at the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s Class Day, climate … and alive rather than merely scenic or decorative.” The rise of restoration ecology “focuses on repairing …
A Championship Tune-up
… After going 5-10 in non-conference play, the Harvard men’s basketball team appeared a long shot to … season 17-12 overall and 12-2 in the Ivy League, a share of the conference championship and the number-one seed in … ability to break the press, and impressive maturity—all of which has put them in prime position to return to the …
News in Brief
… became Harvard’s thirty-first president on August 2, when the governing boards announced their decision. The appointment itself comes as little surprise: Garber came to the interim presidency with broad … a search for his successor in the late spring or summer of 2026. Senior fellow Penny Pritzker praised him for doing …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard Headlines: A Genomics Pioneer and a Scholar of Government Regulation
… Freed professor of government Daniel Carpenter’s Reputation and Power , which will be featured in the "Off the Shelf" column in the September-October issue, is …
What’s in the New Dining Workers’ Contract?
… Harvard dining workers are celebrating the end of their 22-day strike this week, following a Wednesday vote of 583-1 approving the new contract between the University …
The Harvard Hedge Fund?
… A blog post by Matthew Yglesias ’03 has sparked quite a lively debate about … starts by quoting another blogger's comparison of Harvard's endowment to "a $40 billion tax-free hedge fund … Comments from site visitors draw in a cornucopia of related issues: tuition, financial aid, admissions …
The Builder’s Art
… The best show in Cambridge-campus construction is (sadly for … memory compares to the fiendishly complex wholesale redoing of the Fogg Art Museum into the new, three-in-one Harvard Art Museums complex, on the tightest of sites. From the removal of the Busch-Reisinger wing, on …
Issue: May-June 2013
The Prison Problem
… When Jerry enters the pizza place next to Boston’s Government Center, he … interview Jerry about his experience. After ordering them coffees, Western, a sociology professor and faculty chair of … are thought to have substance-abuse problems—no surprise, given that people steal to get money for drugs, or …
Issue: March-April 2013
“Disasters Sift out the Resilient”
… In his last Commencement address as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria, who steps down later this year after 10-plus years at the helm , urged graduates to remember their gratitude, even … you speak up with boldness.” Nodding once more at the crises created by the pandemic, Ndidi Nwuneli closed with an …
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… —launched its Facebook page in March 2013, hosted its first official alumni reception that May, launched its official website ( www.harvardlatinamerica.org ) this past June, and in October helped sponsor the first Latin America Career Fair at Harvard. That …
Issue: January-February 2015
All the Would-Be Presidents' People
… Most of the contenders to succeed Bill Clinton as president sported a Harvard connection (see "The Crimson Party," November-December 2000, page 120). … distinctly Cantabrigian, too. Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler professor of constitutional law, showed up on the New York …
Reality Fiction
… not take long for a reader to realize that Selin Karadag, the tall, funny, and clever Harvard freshman who narrates … Batuman came to Harvard hoping to discover the deep secrets of books, “what literature really meant.” Like Selin, she … gravitated toward Russian literature, which she found “profoundly human,” eventually earning a Ph.D. in comparative …
Issue: March-April 2017
On Unintended Consequences
… It would be hard to top Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge as the title for a book of “Essays in Unintended Consequences”—the subtitle for a collection of thought-provoking, finely crafted pieces by long-time …
Issue: March-April 2025
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