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Harvard Changes Employee Health Benefits
… The University announced today that under its … employees would become responsible for annual deductibles of $250 per individual and $750 per family, and coinsurance … closely with national norms—but they may well come as a surprise to faculty and staff members accustomed to Harvard’s …
Joseph Conrad’s Crystal Ball
… Many call Rudyard Kipling the scribe of the British Empire, but novelist Joseph Conrad … waning years and foreshadowed its demise. Around the turn of the last century, Conrad’s books portrayed terrorism in …
Issue: May-June 2014
Mastering the “Hidden Curriculum”
… choosing a gift from a bridal registry for a friend. “What the hell is a bridal registry?” she wondered. As she tried … sounded more like mini-colleges, with library buildings of their own and sophisticated electives” and AP courses … 6 percent to 17 percent). It hosts the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America summer institute for promising …
Issue: November-December 2017
Theobald Smith
… When Theobald Smith arrived at Harvard in 1895, he was already accomplished in the nascent fields of microbiology, immunology, and public health. Eleven years … College at 25, he had begun his career at the new Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington, D.C., created by Congress …
Issue: July-August 2009
Tying Knots
… to create decent housing for 160 struggling families. In the center of Chile's sprawling capital city, students at the College … glass office towers of Providencia and Vitacura, the high-rise apartment blocks in fashionable Las Condes, north and …
Issue: May-June 2004
Charles Lieber Named University Professor
… Chemist Charles M. Lieber, a pioneer in the creation of bio-compatible electronics, has been named the inaugural Friedman University Professor, a new position endowed by Joshua Friedman ’76, …
Rallying Cries
… A s the United States struggles with unauthorized immigration, and the administration of President Donald J. Trump sharply constricts legal means of entry, such as appeals for asylum, political …
Issue: March-April 2020
The Low End Theory
… In 2013 , a manifesto entitled The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study began making the rounds among the growing pool of nervous graduate students, harried adjuncts, un-tenured … Frazier, and Joe Louis to get us in.” Moten’s first surprise at Harvard was encountering a certain kind of black …
Issue: January-February 2018
Five Questions with Brian D. Farrell
… Brian D. Farrell is the Lehner professor for the study of Latin America and a … Times . Ecologists and evolutionary biologists were surprised by how conservative the evolution of these ecological …
Poll: What Was the Greatest Moment in Harvard Sports History?
… The Harvard men’s basketball team’s victory over New Mexico in the West Regional not only stunned the unwitting, but also made history: It was the Crimson’s …
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. … …
A Melting World
… Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford Washburn Jr. … —only a mud flat remained. Temperatures in this area have risen almost five degrees Fahrenheit, coaxing trees to …
Issue: May-June 2006
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
Cinema with Gravitas
… It was not much of a house at all: just a simple shack, with a dirt floor … walls. But its owner, a Haitian sugarcane worker in the Dominican Republic, graciously let in the strangers … he does find inspiration in tales of ordinary folks who rise to the occasion when needed. Tim Disney ’83, of the …
Issue: September-October 2014
Global Reach in Health Sciences
… alcohol abuse, and poor diet. "Delivery issues" from the training of healthcare providers to the design of health systems. Statistical tools for program evaluation. …
Issue: January-February 2004