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… Mending the Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) has sold a 99-year leasehold in eight of the 11 floors of its Harvard Institutes of Medicine building. The decision …
Issue: September-October 2018
An Election Post-Mortem
… The Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics teemed with bodies far in advance of last night’s much-anticipated post-election panel … in the Clinton campaign’s strategy? Mook attributed her surprise loss almost entirely to the letter, released by FBI …
Music and Language, Reconciled
… Readers of the New York Review of Books who are also lovers of music—and who have reached a certain age—will know that music-lovers in the past have been able to read the writings of some musical …
Issue: March-April 2022
“Harvard Is Where You Are”
… Ellen G. Reeves ’83, Ed.M. ’86, is probably the first Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president to … Second City. And last fall she created Talk Show, a series of improvised performances run out of a storefront on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The show …
Issue: September-October 2011
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
… Afghanistan. Blue pigment rarely occurs in nature, making the rock exceptionally expensive; in medieval Europe, where … as gold. The pigment’s travels reflect the activity of merchants and artists around the world. Recently, researchers discovered the remains of lapis lazuli in the calcified dental plaque of a woman …
Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico
… in maternal health. Four months later, when she left the region, she had witnessed a home birth. “It was a very … and when you actually see it in real life.” Amanuel was one of the first two Harvard undergraduates who spent their spring semester in rural southern Mexico as part of the Global Health Equity Option (GHEO) Scholars program, …
Birds in Hand
… and birds. Birds are particularly tricky work. Rendering feathers demands finesse. No pigment yet captures true … up his stool, art supplies, and binoculars beside a swath of wetlands, and was lucky enough to watch a Virginia rail … to help protect wild birds. “Museum visitors have been surprised to see shorebird decoys,” Montague says, “because it’s …
Issue: May-June 2017
Bearing Witness to Terrorism
… on name tags, shuffled through metal detectors, and placed their phones in yellow manila envelopes, bracing themselves … the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shows roughly 10 percent of the approximately 1,200 Israeli deaths. Attendees watched … about their slaughter. The IDF did not include footage of rape or other sexual violence, the killing of babies or …
On-Ramps
… Harvard’s Business School, Law School, and Graduate School of Education (HBS, HLS, HGSE) for M.B.A., J.D. and LL.M., … and Ed.M. degrees now can—and in some cases must —begin their programs of study before matriculating. Making use … and valuation—the basic language for understanding an enterprise’s performance and status. By one estimate, serious …
President Maia Sandu's Speech
… Dear graduates, It’s a big honor for me to address you at the end of this amazing Kennedy School experience and at the start … from the Kennedy School of Government, I was equally surprised and excited, but I would have never thought that one …
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2018
… During the Morning Exercises of the 367th Commencement, on May 24, … include four distinguished leaders in the arts, an area of particular emphasis during the presidency of Drew Gilpin …
“This Is a Gift”
… University Press (HUP), all working from home, followed the news of demonstrations spreading around the country—and around … they needed to do more than simply issue a statement of solidarity. “We wanted to contribute actively in some …
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
… Boston’s subway system is full of germs left behind by commuters on seats, poles, and … that may not be cause for concern, according to the results of a new study published this week in mSystems . The …
Mystical Poet and American Novelist Launch Commencement Week
… Speaking in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning, poet Donald Revell and orator … poems. Boston-born novelist Barrett, whose collection of short stories Ship Fever won the National Book Award in … to become a writer in her thirties in order to make sense of the world (For detailed background on each, see Harvard …
Authoritarian Regimes’ AI Innovation Advantage
… For the past decade, China has led the world in advanced-facial … systems. Chinese companies dominate the rankings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Face Recognition Vendor Test, …
Issue: May-June 2022