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Unconventional Venture Capital
… ’07, and Mark Zuckerberg ’06, LL.D. ’17, famously created their companies, now Microsoft and Facebook, as undergraduates. And then they took … Coast. Will successor generations of world-changing enterprises come from Harvard—and if so, how will they be funded …
Issue: March-April 2021
Off the Shelf
… Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. … programs and other measures to defuse such crises, which often seem pervasive. Pirating and Publishing: …
Issue: January-February 2021
Architecture for Everyone
… Eritrean-born Yohanna Iyasu's parents moved their family to the United Kingdom from Holland when she was … admission to universities; her scores limited her chance of entering an architecture program. Oni Hinton was already … when she became seriously ill during her final years of high school. Her professional dream was put on hold when …
Repatriating Native American Remains
… When Joseph P. “Joe” Gone ’92 was a student at Harvard, the University was inventorying the thousands of Native American remains stored at the Peabody Museum of … “collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency,” briefly …
Issue: September-October 2021
Diversifying Diet
… but also in diet, according to an October study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Though not many people have heard of the “portfolio diet”—consisting of plant-based foods …
Issue: May-June 2024
Jill Johnson Brings the Heat to Harvard Dance
… A self-described “radical optimist” who’s traveled the world as a dancer and choreographer, Jill Johnson brings … fiery red hair and warm personality to Harvard as the new Office for the Arts (OFA) dance director. Harvard Magazine recently sat down with …
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 …
The Equation for Success?
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last weekend, some of the sharpest minds in sports convened in Boston for the … coach for men’s basketball, might have wished that some of the attendees had stuck around to help him analyze why …
Pleasing Palates
… The Red House restaurant serves its Mediterranean- and … the perfect place for an afternoon meal amid the hubbub of Commencement and reunion week. Though the menu changes often, the fish is always fresh, as are the salads (which …
Issue: May-June 2011
Jumping English-style
… They make an odd sight on the sidewalk. Rising at 4 a.m. on … quizzical looks, or ask a joshing question: "What kind of party were you at?" The four riders, however, are not … overmatched in competition." Yet there can be surprises. This spring, Fishko won the regional championship for …
From the Archives: We Remember World War I
… One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered the Great War that soon came to be … from the Harvard Magazine archives, are first-hand stories of that conflict, collected by Adam Goodheart ’92. … them in 1993, to hear and capture firsthand their accounts of the war—the smell of cordite, the ferrying of planes to …
Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?
… Arsenic , the weapon of choice for villains in Agatha Christie’s famed … way to combat acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a type of cancer that was, until recently, highly lethal. … called Pin1 when paired with all-trans retinoic acid. The research appears in Nature Communication, published on …
Harvard's New-Normal Financial Results
… The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 … report released today, in many ways mirrors the outcome of the prior year : Harvard again operated modestly in the … the institution as a whole to maintain the research enterprise. The problem is sufficiently acute that Dean Smith, of …
Fugitive Pedagogy
… like a door had opened in his mind. Having flown across the country on the kind of offbeat, open-ended quest that later would become a regular …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Mr. Mom Switch
… In the mouse world, virgin male mice are not known as … other males. But research led by Catherine Dulac, Higgins professor of molecular and cellular biology, reveals that these …
Issue: May-June 2015