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Jacqueline Bhabha
… Bhabha is also a lawyer, scholar, and executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. She … teaches international refugee law at the Law School, and offers a freshman seminar and Kennedy School courses on …
Issue: May-June 2005
“Unlikely Writer” Gawande to Speak at HMS Class Day
… Atul Gawande —associate professor in the department of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health …
Climate-Change Advocacy Intensifies
… At its first meeting of 2020, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded an … Company (HMC) to shed certain investments, if any, in enterprises involved in fossil-fuel production. Last weekend, …
Gordon Brown's Prescription for Global Economic Health
… Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School on September 23, former British … not just in one country but across the board.” In the wake of the global financial crisis, he said, such “globally … until 2010; he had previously spent 10 years as chancellor of the exchequer in the Labour Party’s government. His …
Portfolio-Manager Paychecks
… The compensation for the most highly paid endowment investment managers—the subject of criticism and debate in recent years—took on a … HMC’s performance-based pay system yielded annual payments of as much as $18 million, $25 million, and $35 million for …
Issue: March-April 2007
A New Prescription for Drug Development
… Almost all the drugs that physicians prescribe to cure diseases or … But that outmoded discovery process and the lack of understanding must change, say scientists in academia and … diminishing returns); and an increase in the diagnosis of drug-resistant diseases—has the potential to imperil a …
Talking about Talking
… As the spring semester began, Harvard faced the difficult challenge of clarifying its free speech policies and securing … in months and years to come, when similarly fraught issues arise. … 25382 … Fostering healthy disagreement … Fostering …
Issue: March-April 2024
Commencement Talk 2017
… Reclaiming “What We Know about Life” MIT’s Mauzé professor of the social studies of science and technology, Sherry Turkle …
Issue: July-August 2017
Yesterday's News
… budget deficit (due partly to construction expenses) for the 1913-14 fiscal year prompts a proposal to raise College … teaching method. The editors suggest that “the best method of instruction is neither lecture system nor the discussion method, but a combination of the two.” 1934 The Harvard Psychological Laboratory …
Issue: November-December 2009
Overseas Insourcing
… Since the 1950s, the United States has led the world in science and technology, training an unrivaled pool of physicists, engineers, biologists, and chemists. … is shrinking, according to a recent report by Ascherman professor of economics Richard B. Freeman, director of the …
Issue: November-December 2005
Alison Simmons
… nighttime childhood car rides, Alison Simmons would take off her glasses and watch the traffic lights turn from discrete shapes into blurry … to the world through clear windowpanes,” says the Wolcott professor of philosophy. “Our bodies are affecting the way the …
Issue: July-August 2024
Controversial Visitor
… Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy. Khatami heads the … learned that Khatami would speak at Harvard's Institute of Politics on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 …
Issue: November-December 2006
Surgery for All
… It’s not usually associated with surgery. But consider the woman who dies in childbirth because she can’t reach a clinic that performs cesarean sections, or the man out of work because he can’t afford cataract surgery to restore … the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery argues that a lack of access to safe surgical care has a major impact on the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Academic Allston, At Last
… Harvard began banking land for expansion in Allston, beyond the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus, academic growth … involved are fostering intellectual collaborations ahead of their physical colocation. The flagship project, housing … academic growth and the anticipated siting of an “enterprise research campus” with significant commercial office and …
Issue: July-August 2016
Ecophilic Initiatives
… The University will cut its net greenhouse-gas emissions by … been going green in other ways. For example: Discussions of climate change and air pollution often take on a somber and even apocalyptic tone—but the …
Issue: September-October 2008