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Balancing Mental Health and COVID Safety
… There were stretches in the spring, sometimes for days, when … Lucy Wickings ’22 could barely bring herself to get out of bed. Moments before scheduled class meetings, she would … puts her in a bind in responding to acute student crises, such as an anxiety attack or a student contemplating …
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… Communicating about Cures—and Cancer The Harvard community is richly peopled with leading biomedical researchers. A few of them are doubly gifted: as writers, they explain disease, … human terms. Many readers will have encountered Recanati professor of medicine Jerome E. Groopman and assistant …
Issue: January-February 2007
WorldÌs Greatest University Takes Heat
… University Takes Heat Harvard Pilgrim Health Care , the largest health plan in Massachusetts, having experienced … might come the funds to recapitalize the sinking nonprofit? "How about the institution whose name is on the door? … learning takes off and the value of Harvard's "brand" rises for e-commerce uses. Illustration by Nick Thorkelson …
Matt Damon, Arts Medalist
… The Office for the Arts at Harvard has announced that the Harvard Arts … receive his medal on April 25 in Sanders Theatre, kicking off this spring’s Arts First festival, scheduled for April …
Natural Winter Wonders, Mass Audubon
… Layer up and get outside for a series of winter walks with Mass Audubon. The conservation organization has 60 scenic sanctuaries, … from the Berkshire Mountains to the Atlantic Coast, many of which offer year-round events for adults and families. …
Issue: January-February 2022
Philadelphia's Story
… Philadelphia stands as the perfect prototype of the broken urban school system that … shown little capacity for self-improvement. The performance of its fourth-grade students on the National Assessment of …
Issue: September-October 2016
An Asia Expert for Arts and Sciences
… The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President …
Issue: July-August 2002
Tweeter Titters
… years old,” Megan Amram ’10 claims. Perhaps she was saving them up all those early years. Today she posts quite a few … and more than 135,000 followers read them daily. They are often dark witticisms, the products of an entertainingly warped mind—such as, “Luckily my …
Issue: March-April 2012
Where the Grass Is Greener
… Not infrequently, companies lure professors to highly paid positions directing scientific … in pharmaceuticals, technology, and related fields. But the recent departures of some leading Harvard scientists … pathways, left in January 2024 to lead the science enterprise at Arena Bioworks, a new nonprofit biomedical research …
Issue: January-February 2025
Curricular Commitments
… Departing Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean William C. Kirby has attempted to set the clock ticking for completing a revision of the undergraduate curriculum, after three years of study. …
Issue: March-April 2006
Scenes from Commencement
… Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first marshal Gerard Hammond, of Cabot House and Brooklyn; Avik Chatterjee, of Adams House … attired and with walkie-talkie, forms and launches the afternoon line of march, characterized by the WHRB …
Issue: July-August 2002
Roger Fu
… In the year and a half between college (at Harvard) and … Roger Fu ’09 lived in an isolated village in the mountains of southern Chile, learning to speak Mapuche with his … what’s in the sky, where everything came from—it’s part of the human need.” For him, too: now Loeb associate …
Issue: May-June 2023
Innocent Merriment
… and Arthur Sullivan both were famous in England well before they became collaborators. Gilbert had written 31 of his 75 plays, and Sullivan was doing nicely as a composer of serious music, as conductor of the Royal Philharmonic, as …
Squash, Mike Way’s Way
… Harvard's new head squash coach, Mike Way (the subject of the January-February 2011 Harvard Portrait ), … for a good squash game—players also need "energy," a bit of subterfuge, and the shots should "feel good." See how Way …
Issue: January-February 2011
Bill Gates on “Creative Capitalism”
… As part of the Harvard Business School (HBS) centennial celebration … "Financial Crisis: Confidence—and Some Cautions" ), Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates (’77, LL.D. ’07; access his Commencement address ), now co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joined in an armchair …