Search
Off the Shelf
… $26.99). Oncologist, writer, and policy adviser, the author, now at the University of Pennsylvania, rebuts critics of “Obamacare” in his subtitle: “How the Affordable Care Act …
Issue: May-June 2014
Curiouser and Curiouser!
… enlarged beyond imagination. It’s an experience not unlike the one I wish for our incoming students each fall, the sudden and strange feeling of reaching unimaginable heights and gaining new perspective. Yet I also wish for them humbling moments of awe at the scope of ambition and talent that exists …
Issue: September-October 2022
Through the Toilet Bowl, and What I Found There
… Harvard College, or at least so I imagined. Sitting in the back of my father’s 1993 Ford Explorer, I was four when I asked … next to nothing about the school. I envisioned an expanse of land peppered by ancient buildings. I fantasized about …
Talking about Teaching, Part III: Using the University’s Collections
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded its … in later discussion, she noted that the exhibition has arisen from a graduate seminar in General Education, where … learning is always going to be a smaller enterprise here," compared to larger lecture-based instruction. …
The New Order
… The contents of this issue of Harvard Magazine appear in a slightly modified order. As … university). But next you will find John Harvard’s Journal, the extensive news section, moved forward. It seems logical …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… 1940: FDR, Wilkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election Amid the Storm, by Susan Dunn, Ph.D. ’73 (Yale, … are watersheds. Here, the indefatigable Third Century professor of humanities at Williams College extends her prior … firm, Turenscape, is perhaps the preeminent landscape enterprise in China, and he is a leading voice for environmentally …
Issue: July-August 2013
Over the Moon
… It took a victory in The Game, coupled with a Dartmouth upset of Princeton, to cut Harvard in for a share of the Ivy League championship, but that’s how the 2013 …
Issue: January-February 2014
Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors
… Summer Fellow Ryan Doan-Nguyen has been tackling a variety of writing assignments for the magazine. Here, he interviews four fellow students who … due to “potential serious complications that could arise at elevations above 5,000 feet, the environment, daily …
Meaningful Metrics
… The U.S. Department of Education’s promised college-ratings … and student outcomes) doesn’t have many friends on the nation’s elite, selective campuses. President Drew … worried. “I think these should be very complex portraits of institutions,” not reducible to a “simple metric.” But …
Issue: July-August 2015
Joining the “Long Crimson Line”
… A round dozen of Harvard students—the largest contingent since 2010—took their oaths of office, respectively, as second lieutenants in the U.S. …
The Harvard Corporation’s Continuing Reconstruction
… According to a University report, the Harvard Corporation has taken the next step in its … campus development in Allston); ensuring greater depth of understanding about and expertise on Harvard finances, in … which provides debt financing to early-stage venture enterprises. Details on specific committee charters and …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries: July-August 2013 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … 39927 … Class notes and obituaries May-June 2013 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: May-June 2013
Harvard Business School Building Boom Continues
… The cranes keep coming. Harvard Business School (HBS) dean … Chao and Family Foundation will support replacement of Kresge Hall with a new executive-education facility ($35 … a New York-based shipping, trading, and finance enterprise. He and his late wife had six daughters (listed by …
Off the Shelf
… Thomas, Ph.D. ’95 (Yale, $65). Analyzing works iconic and otherwise from afar (he is chair of fine arts at the University of Hong Kong), the author decodes art to “illuminate adults’ …
Issue: May-June 2011