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Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20
… The maturity of Jaden Craig took a giant step on Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. There, Harvard’s junior quarterback, spreading the ball to … also playing under a first-year head coach, former Penn offensive coordinator Dan Swanstrom, dropped to 1-3 overall …
Something from Nothing
… In 2019, artist Susan Bin ’16 spent three months in front of what she called “the worst easel in the world” sitting on “the worst chair” … sat for portraits and she swiftly cut their likenesses out of paper. Despite the monotony, she found magic. “It’s not …
Issue: July-August 2023
George Sarrinikolaou
… George Sarrinikolaou was born in Athens on the cusp of Greece’s urbanization—a fulcrum in the … produced very little waste,” says the executive director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. …
Issue: March-April 2024
Presidential Priorities
… President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and priorities for the academic year... President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and …
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
… Americans faster than advances in healthcare were saving them. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco, published November … gap by gender and identify the differences in causes of death. The researchers found that between 2019 and 2021, …
Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association
… S arah C. Karmon, who has been deputy executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since 2018, will become executive director and associate vice president of alumni affairs and development, effective in January. She …
Kari Nadeau
… Nadeau spent a few years living on a houseboat where her father, a research scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, studied the polluted estuaries of the New Jersey shore. She doesn’t remember any … clinical outcome,” said Nadeau, who recently became chair of the department of environmental health at the Harvard T. …
Issue: July-August 2023
In Service
… When Debby Smullyan ’72 began writing obituaries for the magazine in 1993, she didn’t know at first if the job … old. Now a grandmother, Debby calls herself a “connoisseur of obituaries” and says the work long ago “settled into her … post with this issue, having served as the careful steward of thousands of alumni obituaries over the course of three …
Issue: July-August 2023
Harvard Students Protest Supreme Court Ruling
… Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative … Harvard, more than 100 students, alumni, and members of the public united in opposition to the decision, gathered … attendees to sign table-length posters in support of the protest. Between chants of “Diversity is under …
Restored to Nature
… M.L.A. ’92. “Every site, every neighborhood, has a depth of history that we have to listen to.” This is particularly true of a project she’s been working on for almost three years, a … in Detroit, surrounding a century-old train station, which the Ford Motor Company recently bought and is transforming …
Issue: January-February 2023
Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?
… At Harvard, there are research areas that can’t be investigated, … that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So say a group of Harvard professors, now more than 120 strong, who have formed a …
Litchfield’s Legal Eagles
… The bright young men who crammed into the one-room … by lawyer and pioneering educator Tapping Reeve, ultimately offered a rigorous 18-month course of study in place of the traditional English system of …
Issue: March-April 2023
Enterprise Research Campus Underway
… Tishman Speyer , the developer Harvard selected to build its Enterprise Research Campus in Allston, announced on June 16 that … $750 million in financing to build the first, 9-acre phase of the development project. In a statement, the company said …
Birthday Greetings
… a 400th (likely to be a real and virtual humdinger)—but neither is it chopped liver. To have survived since 1636 is no … Given that issue’s enduring value as an exploration of the events and people who had made the University what it … the magazine bimonthly today—plus the countless readers of harvardmagazine.com worldwide. Second, we have focused …
Issue: September-October 2011
Post-COVID Learning Losses
… In education, the post-COVID “return to normal” has been anything but … the pressing educational gaps affecting children. Gale professor of education and economics Tom Kane, director of the … consequences for children,” Reardon said. “I wasn’t surprised, but I was just dismayed and struck by how large the …