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A Prescription for Change
… M.D.-M.P.P. '92, is hard at work, cruising briskly down the Bronx River in a homemade wooden dinghy. Despite the … recycling center around the bend, the constant rumble of cars on a metal expressway bridge spanning the waterway, … Dorsey works in an air-conditioned office, in a high-rise building near Grand Central Station. Today, though, …
Issue: September-October 2004
Michael Mina: Why do we still need rapid tests?
… Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools. Topics include using … holiday and winter season, the risk of indoor transmission rises. Could rapid tests help prevent surges as families …
Keeping "promises the Nation has made"
… The guest speaker for the afternoon exercises, the Honorable David H. Souter, retired associate justice of the Supreme Court, used the occasion--an interested … that a way may be found to resolve it when a conflict arises. That is why the simplistic view of the Constitution …
Issue: July-August 2010
Football: Harvard 38, Yale 19
… On Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Justice was swift. Justice was sure-footed. … record and a 6-1 mark in the Ivy League, good for a share of the title with Dartmouth and Penn. (Yale dropped to 6-4 … and the Ivy title was his eighth. He was especially proud of the way his team had rebounded after its 35-25 loss to …
Behind the Scenes: Observing Subjects in Their Environments
… one of the best parts about being a journalist is that you get to watch interesting people in their element. Whether it’s (literally) riding along with … a reversible sentence, reporting means observing (and often participating in) your interview subject’s biggest …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Is there a doctor in the house?”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You … – Manhattan, KS Segrid O'Gore – Seattle, WA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … March-April 2013 …
The Long-Lived University
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences memorial minutes recall how departed colleagues loomed large—but few, perhaps, in quite the same way as social psychologist J. Richard Hackman, who untangled how teams of people (orchestras, cockpit crews) work together. …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard Law and College Racial Concerns
… Hall Thursday morning found a startling scene: portraits of every black professor in the school’s history defaced with black tape, an incident … our institutional mission and ideals.” … 16881 … Tensions arise at the University—as elsewhere around the country. … …
Harvard Medalists
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today announced the recipients of the 2022 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during … 3. Avarita L. Hanson ’75 has been an energetic supporter of Harvard for more than four decades. In 1975 she founded …
Yesterday's News
… 1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Illustration by Mark Steele … goal. The editors note reproachfully that only 59.4 percent of alumni have donated to date, a poor showing compared with …
Issue: July-August 2005
Thinking Small
… manipulate objects and forces at a scale one-millionth the size of the period at the end of this sentence. At that size, … the Casimir force after a Dutch theoretical physicist, arises from quantum fluctuations of the vacuum rather than …
Issue: January-February 2005
Mary Costelloe Berenson
… “ When bernard berenson presented to me a letter of introduction from an old college friend and was invited to visit my family at our house in the country at Fernhurst in England, his visit was like a … Mary (Smith) Costelloe was bored with life and her husband of five years, and avidly welcomed her guest’s enthusiasm …
Issue: July-August 2011
Early Learning
… Sister Suzanne Deliee climbs the steps of the East Harlem brownstone, rings a bell, and … to honest criticism. When disagreements and conflicts arise, that’s part of the plan; processing reactions in the …
Issue: January-February 2012
At Home with Harvard: Medical Breakthroughs
… This is the seventh installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At … and more, here . within Harvard’s Medical School, School of Public Health, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, … in technology and scientific cooperation, that we will rise to this challenge. Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, …
Wrangling about Reefs
… Tucked away at the periphery of the Harvard Museum of Natural History … among other personal losses. The coral reef debate comprises a seemingly endless series of both marvelous …
Issue: May-June 2005