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The Dark History Behind Chocolate
… begins her lecture with a warning that might seem out of place at first in a course all about chocolate, one of the most delicious and beloved substances in the world. … School enrollees (some joining via Zoom), don’t seem surprised. It’s week nine of the semester, and in Martin’s …
Harvard Reports a $298-Million Surplus and Details Endowment Changes
… some $298 million, up from a $196-million surplus in the prior year, according to the University’s financial … the most recent year, the surpluses—accumulated at the end of the $9.62-billion Harvard Campaign , and during a period … or continued wariness after the Harvard’s severe financial crises of a decade ago—the institution is establishing a …
Five Questions with JoAnn Manson
… For more than 30 years, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a historic, federally … It is hard to overstate the breadth and significance of the WHI’s research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the initiative to make up for a …
Vita: Henry A. Murray
… “The spontaneous propulsion of [my] thoughts by the sanguine … his creed. (This vitality extended beyond academic enterprises; although married, he had a lengthy affair with his …
Issue: March-April 2014
"I can no longer support the president"
… governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks later (“Harper concludes … partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a past president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, was …
Issue: September-October 2005
Harvard Headlines: Religious Fundamentalism, Juvenile Justice, the Homebuyer Tax Credit, and More
… Here are our picks from the latest Harvard-related opinion, news, and features: Among 2009 graduates of Harvard Business School, 28 percent went into finance … bank consultant” Ray Soifer, M.B.A. ’65, the source of the statistic, still deems this year’s number a “mildly …
Detective in Pop Culture
… not a “street person,” Bob Egan ’75 is definitely a man of the streets, specifically those of Manhattan. Three decades ago, he bicycled every street on …
Issue: March-April 2013
The Last Word
… editor Deborah Smullyan’s hands in 1993. Though she gave up the class notes three years later, she has continued to … issue. In her day job, meanwhile, Smullyan, herself class of 1972, edits class report volumes for the Harvard Alumni … Gazette highlighted her double life in its pages. Most of Smullyan’s work for this magazine is seen only by College …
Vita: William Francis Gibbs
… The class of 1910 dropout who designed the SS United States —the fastest, safest, most beautiful transatlantic liner ever built—had the diction of a Philadelphia aristocrat, the mind of an artist, and the …
Issue: July-August 2012
The Harvard College Curriculum
… Beginning in the fall of 2018, Harvard undergraduates will find … Program in General Education takes effect. Following review of the Gen Ed curriculum that took shape a decade ago—under … and humanity.” The College’s requirements thus comprise the Gen Ed courses; the distribution courses; …
Issue: July-August 2017
Thinner Ice
… The revolting late-winter reports about wealthy parents … recruits—and thus into institutions such as the University of Southern California and Yale—seem an unfortunate, totemic … the elements are there: shameless status-seeking; the sense of entitlement associated with wealth, and emphatically …
Issue: July-August 2019
High Art under the Hammer
… There’s a kit of items —tape measure, flashlight, camera, … UV light—Brooke Lampley ’02 takes along to appraise a work of art. “If anything fluoresces under the UV, that indicates that it was added more recently, and …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Elephant in the Room: Sports and Sexism
… on women in sports—long-planned, and yet suddenly of the moment—opened with what moderator Janet Rich-Edwards ’84 … any interview request, “You can’t say no.” She’s been surprised by some of the female athletes appearing in ESPN The …
A New Head Curator for the Harvard Art Museums
… The Harvard Art Museums has named Soyoung Lee, an expert in Korean art and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its new chief curator, effective September 24. Lee’s … involve loans from international institutions. For some of her Korean art exhibitions, she explained, government …
Slow and Steady Wins the Pulitzer
… notes, digitized for online viewers, have become a symbol of resistance against the dishonesty and empty promises that defined the 2016 … year as a reporter at The Washington Post , the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting took on the …