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Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
… On January 25, Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs Meghan O’Sullivan, … slow the energy transition, or make it more expensive. The rise of so-called “middle powers” including the OPEC …
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Public Health Address
… My warm greetings and congratulations to all 2021 graduates of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to Dean … outside your frame of reference. You will be surprised by the adaptability of public health efforts used in …
Mitzvot
… “What is the best thing you’ve done as president?” It is a question I … asked frequently these days. If I were to name everything of which I am proud, everything accomplished with the help of many other people over these last five years, there would …
Issue: March-April 2023
What Does It Mean To Be a Corporate Citizen?
… “ There could really be no more important discussion than the one we are having today,” said Kissel professor of law David Wilkins last Thursday, introducing a … change is perhaps the biggest and best-known driver of the rise in ESG investing, but the movement encompasses a vast …
Sustainability Steps
… Last September , the presidents of Harvard and Stanford, Drew Faust and John … and resilience in the face of challenges like sea-level rise and extreme weather events. (For a more detailed …
Issue: January-February 2015
Ups and Downs
… The shadows on the field at Harvard Stadium were lengthening, and so were Harvard’s chances of stealing the 138th playing of The Game from favored Yale, … opponent. The season’s crazy-quilt nature was no surprise to Stephenson Family head coach for Harvard football …
Issue: January-February 2023
Harvard Offers to Pay More Than Half of West Station Cost
… from one-third to more than one-half—about $50 million—of the total cost of West Station, a proposed commuter-rail … develop, and the value of developing, its commercial enterprise zone. Lapp’s letter acknowledged that some of the …
The Context: Universities Pushed to Reckon with Slavery
… This is the third post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background … role in collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency.” Though …
Highwheel Harvard
… The primitive "boneshaker" bicycle, with pedals attached directly to the front hub and wheels of similar diameter, made its Harvard debut in the winter of 1868-69, against the backdrop of an extraordinary …
Issue: November-December 2004
“Cut Missal Up…”
… colleague chanced upon a stray medieval manuscript page in the Harvard Theatre Collection in 2018, then-Houghton … illuminated book crafted for the French diocese of Rennes, a volume that had been thought lost. … display or give to friends. His journals record at the turn of the year 1854: “Cut out some leaves from large Missal”; …
Issue: March-April 2020
Bringing Art to Life
… painted her face black and white. She meticulously striped the colors across her chin, cheeks, and forehead, checking … Bartolomeo Coriolano’s seventeenth-century woodcut print of a cupid. During the pandemic, Zhou and her fellow Harvard … she created makeup tutorials. Zhou was particularly surprised by how much an eighteenth-century French portrait of …
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
Fogg Art Museum Renovation Under Way
… Updated January 26 The complete renovation and reconstruction of the Fogg Art Museum—closed in June 2008 so its art could … been that the work would be let out for bid in the spring of 2009. But the financial crisis and the scope of the Fogg …
Personal Information in the Digital Age
… Do people behave differently when they think they are being watched? When former National … contractor Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance of American citizens in June 2013, the question suddenly … realm, privacy and security as values and as rights have risen in importance. When someone says, “My life is on my …
Issue: January-February 2017
FAS Details Debt, Financial Challenges
… In preparation for a faculty meeting on December 9, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith released an " FAQ About the Endowment " on December 5. It follows up and … distribution rules, it is known that the payout rate will rise (as President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President …