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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 …
Jacinda Ardern to Speak at Harvard Commencement
… prime minister Jacinda Ardern , making a planned trip to the United States, will be the featured guest speaker at Harvard’s 2022 Commencement exercises on the morning of May 26. The news, officially released by the University today, inadvertently …
Using Cancer to Kill Cancer
… Scientists dream of finding a cure for glioblastoma, a brutally aggressive type of brain tumor; few patients survive longer than 18 months after diagnosis. But preclinical research in the lab of professor of neurosurgery Khalid Shah could …
Issue: May-June 2023
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 …
Think Tank for Aid Workers
… Eager to see how his medical training would translate into the context of a poor nation torn by civil war, VanRooyen concluded very … and malaria. During the next decade, he traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous and disaster-riven places: …
Issue: November-December 2007
Penny Pritzker Elected Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow
… Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has been elected senior … , which is leading development of the commercial Enterprise Research Campus , across Western Avenue from Harvard …
Origin Stories
… Primus is often captivated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ memorial minutes on the scholarly passions and personal crotchets of …
Issue: July-August 2023
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
… are underway to create “exciting, dynamic programming” for the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) newly reorganized … the 152 nd meeting, traditionally held on the afternoon of Commencement Day, to the end of the following week links it more directly to the (also …
Issue: January-February 2022
Ideas Rain In
… Newton had already invented calculus and formulated his law of gravitational attraction. Throughout history, genius and madness have often dwelled together: think of Vincent Van Gogh, William James, M.D. 1869, …
Issue: May-June 2004
Honoris Causa
… Four women and three men received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 26 (including one in absentia, … Muyembe-Tamfum , microbiologist, general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Institut National pour la Recherche …
Issue: July-August 2022
"A Difficult and Compelling Pursuit"
… own niche in public-interest law. She heads her own nonprofit, the New Orleans-based A Fighting Chance ( … day he was exonerated after seven years in jail. Courtesy of A Fighting Chance While looking for jobs in …
Issue: March-April 2005
Why Is Cancer More Common in Men?
… to cancer than women; one in two men will develop some form of the disease in a lifetime, compared with one in three women. … such as cigarette smoking and factory work. Yet the ratio of men with cancer to women with cancer remained largely …
Issue: March-April 2017
Speaking Volumes
… A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean … Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
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 …
Alumni Interviewers Honored
… This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni … prospective undergraduates. Michael R. Alde rete ’79, of Moraga, California, has served the San Francisco Bay Area …
Issue: September-October 2022