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Reparations as Public Health
… reparations for slavery as a public health measure. “All these things are really interconnected…and health has to be a part—if not the anchor—of this [reparations] conversation. Because people are not … to do well unless they are well.” Bassett, the director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and a …
Three Cheers
… We warmly welcome a bumper crop of new colleagues who joined Harvard Magazine this autumn. … and strategist—became publisher on November 6. A veteran of Boston Globe Media for more than a dozen years, and of … marketing), Vinard earned her B.S. in journalism at Northeastern University in 2002 and her M.B.A. from the …
Issue: January-February 2024
Elena Rodriguez Steps Up
… In early December, the Harvard women’s basketball team was leading Michigan by one point at the end of the first quarter, when the Crimson’s star point guard … momentum against a marquee opponent. But toward the middle of the second quarter, with Harvard ahead 28-20, Turner hurt …
Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced
… The second annual Harvard Alumni Day, which takes place on … will feature guest speaker Mary Louise Kelly ’93, co-host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Kelly’s … Association, the midday fete will also feature recognition of the 2023 Harvard Medalists, remarks by President Larry …
Honoring Alumni Interviewers
… This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective … S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71.) David Thomas ’68, A.M. ’73, J.D. ’79, of Greenwood Village, Colorado, has served on the schools …
Issue: September-October 2023
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
Radcliffe Parole Reform Panel Features Rapper
… Five years after his high-profile release from prison, Grammy-nominated rapper Meek Mill spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute about reforming the American parole system. Mill joined three other formerly incarcerated individuals who spoke to a crowd of Harvard students, community organizers, former prisoners, …
Presidents’ Paths
… a deficit rarely make it up later. Third is what he calls the ability to “look over the intellectual horizon”: to suss … them. All well and good. But how do prospective presidents of a place like this end up on the path that delivers them … on. And it’s where I found what I wanted to do….” No surprise, “my becoming an academic was not what my parents had …
Issue: September-October 2023
Picking Team Players
… In professional settings, teamwork is crucial. Whether in healthcare or higher education, in startups, science … franchises, organizations that maximize the effectiveness of collaborative efforts enjoy greater success. But what …
Issue: September-October 2023
Extracurriculars
… Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static offers drawings by the late Philadelphia-based artist, who is best known for … Craft Museum fullercraft.org The multimedia exhibition Soul of a Nation: Voices of Resilience in Ukrainian Folk Art …
Who’s News
… Pfoho Leaders Stanton professor of the First Amendment Erica Chenoweth and lecturer in public … prepare to pursue new challenges, often in social enterprise (see “Advancing Leadership,” March-April 2014, page …
Issue: July-August 2023
Campus Conversations on Speech
… At Harvard , there are research areas that can’t be investigated, … that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So says a group of more than 120 Harvard faculty members, who have formed a … respond to perceived assaults on free inquiry and a climate of eroded trust that they say stifle dissent. The group went …
Issue: September-October 2023
Irene Soto Marín
… Irene Soto Marín once asked her Sunday school teachers the modern-day value of Judas’s bounty for betraying Jesus. Her question—and her … about the past—launched her career as an economic historian of Roman Egypt. When she was 16, her family moved to New …
Issue: September-October 2023
A Call for Precision
… On January 21 , 2017, millions of people gathered across the country for the Women’s March—at that … protest in American history. Amid disputes about the number of participants, Jeremy Pressman, a professor at the …
Michelle Yeoh’s Three Tips for Success
… Against the backdrop of Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Langdell Hall—where the HLS class of 2023 spent countless hours studying—Academy Award-winning …