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Harvard Portrait: Tanya Smith
… “Teeth have rhythms inside them that are very precise, regular, and consistent, like rings in tree trunks,” says Tanya Smith, associate professor of human evolutionary biology. “And like tree rings, they …
Issue: September-October 2014
An “Enchanted Palace”
… in 1924, in a letter by Archibald Cary Coolidge, director of the Harvard University Library, who imagined an “enchanted … “a beautiful building…in which we store all our works of great rarity and value…[and] works dear to the …
Issue: March-April 2017
Principled and Pragmatic Counterterrorism
… not abandon our democratic values, says Louise Richardson, the departing executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (she becomes principal of the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, in January). …
Issue: January-February 2009
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, …
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
Harvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degrees
… has conferred degrees on 11 undergraduates who were denied their diplomas on May 23 because they were suspended or … violating University standards pertaining to the statement of rights and responsibilities for actions related to the … discipline, so the exact violations and penalties are not officially disclosed). Those penalties and subsequent …
Apply for a Fellowship
… Harvard Magazine offers two fellowships to current undergraduates who are … or juniors in Harvard College. LEDECKY FELLOWSHIPS THE BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP … by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother, enables the magazine to appoint two …
#MeToo Meets Mt. Olympus
… When audience members walk into the American Repertory Theater’s new production, The Half-God of Rainfall , they see a beautiful mural. In the center is the silhouette of a young boy shooting a basketball. No Jerry West , the …
News in Brief
… before she became president, on July 1, Claudine Gay filled the vacancy created by her election, appointing Hopi E. Hoekstra as the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She is Agassiz … of the Harvard Corporation. Legacy students typically comprised 11 percent of prior Amherst classes. Enhanced …
Issue: September-October 2023
Adam Falk and Natalie Diaz at Phi Beta Kappa
… The orator and poet at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Adam … Falk, a theoretical physicist, has served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2018. He was …
Increasing Access
… Harvard Magazine has long published commentaries from the president on matters that are timely and relevant to the life of the University. In an era of rapid news cycles, it can be challenging to craft copy …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2025-2026 Fellows
… On Thursday, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute announced its 26th class of Radcliffe Fellows. One of Harvard’s most prestigious fellowships, the Radcliffe …
Harvard Extension School
… The university Extension's centennial banquet takes place … at 6; dinner and program at 7). By invitation only. Visit the Harvard Extension School website . … The University Extension’s Centennial Banquet takes place on …
The Sum of Our Choices
… A market-like notion of personal choice has come to pervade ways of thinking about everything from what flavor of ice cream to order or whom to date to the most fraught issues in political or ideological …
Issue: May-June 2025
Behind the Scenes: Safe Streets
… and a place. But our staff’s journey to 7 Ware Street, at the edge of campus, can be perilous. When I bike, my head is on a … doctors, architects, and civil servants discussed the scope of the issue and the long road to improvement. Street …