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Helping Those Most in Need
… more than a decade, destroying infrastructure and crippling the economy. A third of the country’s six million people were displaced; tens of thousands died. As the country imploded, the lives of one …
Issue: March-April 2009
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
… diet reduce cancer risk? In short, yes. Nearly 25 percent of the 18 million cases of cancer diagnosed annually worldwide … but it may set up the environment in which cancer can arise.” Rebbeck also addressed the problem of …
Targeting Cancer
… Linnea Olson tells her story—of repeatedly facing death, then being saved by the latest precision … solid tumors because of tumor heterogeneity. Heterogeneity arises from genetic differences among cells in a single …
Issue: May-June 2018
A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith ’94
… Tracy K. Smith ’94 is a poet and professor at Princeton who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for … on Mars, dealt with matters of grief and religious faith in the wake of her father's death. Her newest work, Ordinary … in the right way, would obey my wishes—even if it surprised me, or perhaps because it was capable of surprising …
Big Data Takes on Dengue Fever
… Cell phones automatically keep track of the nearest cell tower, which is why phone records can be … world. Now, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a potentially life-saving …
David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
… committed with firearms are becoming more frequent in the United States. And the total number of gun deaths, a majority by suicide, is now on par with those caused by automobile accidents. None of this has broken the political gridlock in Washington that …
Harvard College Early Admissions
… The College announced today that 977 applicants from a pool of 5,919 had been granted early-action admission to the class of 2019, entering next August. The number of admissions is …
Harvard’s Stake in the Fisher v. Texas Affirmative Action Case
… fears at Harvard and elsewhere that it might strike down the use of race in admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s affirmative action program in the …
Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan in Allston
… The University’s new 10-year Institutional Master Plan (IMP) … to Harvard Stadium that will include indoor seating and office space; a new, larger, basketball gymnasium; a 150- to … new auditorium for Burden Hall, faculty and administrative offices, and renovation of the adjacent Soldiers Field Park …
Issue: September-October 2013
A Call to Service
… Near the start of his address, journalist Jim Lehrer, who collects bus memorabilia, gave a splendid rendition of a Trailways boarding call, which can be heard with RealPlayer [ link to archived video of the afternoon exercises ]. Then he got serious. I believe …
Issue: July-August 2006
Brevia
… Museum Management Jane Pickering —executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture since 2013—has been … has increased as employment prospects and wages have risen (and as public institutions’ tuition bills have soared …
Issue: September-October 2019
Roger Goodell on Football Injuries
… Football League (NFL) commissioner Roger Goodell spoke at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on November 15 about “Leadership on … football injuries, in particular the much-debated subject of concussions, as the league looks for ways to “take the …
Harvard Baccalaureate 2015: “Live Beyond Fear”
… “You entered as the most diverse class in the history of the College,” President Drew Faust told the graduating seniors of 2015 in her May 26 Baccalaureate address. But “what has …
Striking Distance
… Eli Dershwitz ’18 (’19) turned in his finals and headed out of Cambridge for the summer, he was the top-ranked men’s saber fencer in the … points from each tournament pushed him to the top of the world rankings. “It was a big summer,” he allows with …
Issue: November-December 2018
Mysterious Minis
… Two miniature mosaics, each the size of a Kindle and shrouded in mystery, depict 41 male … Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks, where the mosaics are part of the Byzantine collection, know roughly when they were …
Issue: March-April 2024