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Graduate School of Design Launches $110-Million Campaign
… The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launched its … as climate change, resilience in the face of sea-level rise, the ability of small-scale interventions to make … materials but also in how they can invent new materials and machines to create them. In an afternoon panel on …
A Bumper Crop in the National Academy of Medicine
… The National Academy of Medicine has elected 100 new … affiliates—an unusually large cohort, and more evidence of the University’s prowess in medicine, life sciences, and …
Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists
… The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2025
Optimizing Public-School Spending
… follows elections in her local community is familiar with the passionate debate about public-school spending. How much … funding do the schools need? What is the most effective use of those funds? Studies conducted from 2015 on have found … and graduates’ future wages and economic mobility all rise—confirming popular intuitions. Research by economist …
Issue: November-December 2021
Reading the Tea Leaves
… Commencements provide annual practice in uniting the Harvard community and celebrating its members, … the thirtieth University president), more personal, one-off events. As such, they may signal new leaders’ interests … the world will look” in the future. In the event, external crises—the financial meltdown of 2008 and the Great …
Issue: September-October 2023
Complexity and the Wealth of Nations
… A truism about the benefits of international trade holds that countries … and labor. Hidalgo and Hausmann say they were not surprised to find that their measures of economic complexity …
Issue: March-April 2010
The Care and Feeding of a Nation
… In the United States, “The primary way we define ‘food safety’ … I be in the hospital in 24 to 72 hours?’” says clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib. “But this doesn’t account … those who lack sufficient affordable, nutritious food, has risen to unprecedented levels since the pandemic began. A …
Issue: September-October 2020
Walter Cronkite Issued a Challenge to the Class of 1980
… The class of 1980 invited Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in news at the time, to deliver their … advised. … Walter Cronkite issued a challenge to the class of 1980 … Walter Cronkite Issued a Challenge to the Class of …
Yesterday's News
… 1919 King Albert of Belgium, hero of World War I, receives an honorary degree and becomes the first reigning monarch to set foot in Harvard … navy after final tests, the gathering discusses how such machines could be used to work on problems in the social …
Issue: September-October 2009
Mum’s the Word
… In october, when the University reported financial results for fiscal year 2022, it introduced a surprise. Alongside news of a huge budget surplus, Harvard Management Company (HMC) …
Issue: January-February 2023
Charting the Universe
… Christopher Columbus can claim the world is round all he wants, but it doesn’t … universe is flat. Paul L. Richards ’56, then a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Future of Education
… In January , at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I … on MOOCs—massive open online courses—and the future of education. Massachusetts Institute of Technology President L. Rafael Reif and I had the …
Issue: March-April 2013
Janiva Ellis at the Carpenter Center
… Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (January 31-April 6). The exhibition highlights 12 paintings that have lain … primarily for technicolor canvases depicting experiences of black and biracial people, mostly women, and … years later she was included in the Whitney Biennial. Her rise coincided with a “rapacious market for work by black …
Issue: January-February 2025
Friends of Harvard Magazine
… The Friends of Harvard Magazine group was established to … for donors who make an especially generous contribution of $100 or more. To recognize and strengthen that bond, Harvard Magazine holds special events that …
Off the Shelf
… Nature and Nation , by Lisbet Koerner, Ph.D. '93, associate of the department of the history of science (Harvard University Press, …