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Harvard Study: EPA’s Fine-Particle Pollution Standards May Be Too Loose
… The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s standards for … recent study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, led by professor of environmental epidemiology Joel Schwartz, found …
Seeing Red
… ’84, tackles breathing, cancer, and unexpected days at the beach. At the office, she directs research on a database of 3 million cancer cases, or culls morbidity factors among …
Issue: July-August 2007
Equality and Justice
… This year’s Radcliffe Day panel, “The Long Arc of Equality and Justice in America,” drew its name from one of the most frequently quoted adages in American history: …
Civil Soldiers
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The athletic fields of Harvard lie near the Charles River in Allston on land … Field." "Few people know the Civil War significance of the name," writes Helen Hannon in Blue & Gray Magazine. …
Issue: May-June 2002
From Haiti to Rwanda, Paul Farmer Moves Mountains
… Paul E. Farmer, Presley professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, made the front page of the Boston Sunday Globe this week with his …
Cryptic Puzzle: "Song"
… Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … Debbie Levine – Acton, MA Dave Libby – Concord, MA Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Brian McCrady – …
Alumnae Transition at Radcliffe
… its president, Raine Figueroa '84, M.B.A. '91, said was the last formal annual meeting of the Radcliffe Association (RA). "This is, as far as I … later renamed the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association. As of July 1, the RA will no longer be funded by the …
Issue: July-August 2003
Korean Gentleman
… "Korean scholars of Korean art consider our newly acquired Bamboo through the Four Seasons to be the most important Korean literati screen outside of Korea," says Robert D. Mowry delightedly. The Dworsky …
Issue: January-February 2003
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
Alumni Gatherings
… for this fall center on South Asia, career tactics, and the historic role of women during wartime. The events, organized by the HAA, … . On October 8, “South Asia: A Changing World” features professor of international health Jennifer Leaning and …
Issue: September-October 2005
Brown University President Simmons to Retire
… Ruth J. Simmons , Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02, president of Brown University since July 2001, announced today that she would step down at the end of the current academic year (although she has … the great-great-granddaughter of slaves, and that she had risen to the presidency of Smith College before her …
Meet the Lawyers Behind the Harvard v. Trump Lawsuit
… Harvard and the federal government are slated to square off in court on … The federal government—primarily through the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human …
Issue: July-August 2025
Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future
… “I really like things that, if they work, really matter—even if they don’t have a super high chance of working,” Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, told a crowd of students who …
All-Court Wonder
… Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game … the charge. Stehle hit the floor, the referee whistled the offensive foul, and the ball went over to Harvard. It was a …
Issue: November-December 2005
Fixing America’s Heartland
… In Flint, Michigan , more than half the men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed—and no … at a very high cost per job.” A 2013 study of enterprise zones in the United States, for example, “found that …
Issue: September-October 2018