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100 Years of HSPH
… Courtesy of the Harvard School of Public Health Julio Frenk The launch … physical and social environments; poverty and humanitarian crises; and failing health systems Across fields, HSPH is … the whole lifespan,” he says. And even as obesity is on the rise in developed nations, the developing world still …
Endowment Expectations
… Following the near-record 33.6 percent investment return on endowment … in fiscal 2022—when financial markets took account of the pandemic stimulus and rising inflation, and the … to suggest that UVIMCO’s fund managers were perhaps surprised, like many institutional investors, by the outsized …
Arts and Science Transitions
… The beginning of the end of a period of instability in the … and co-founder, chief scientist, and chairman of Liquid Machines, a software company that provides security services … making FAS, and Harvard, “the most exciting” learning enterprise in the world. Both Faust and Smith praised Bok, …
Issue: July-August 2007
Fifteen Percent of Immortality
… Andrew Wylie ’70 was trying to get a job as a book editor. “They would ask what I was reading,” Wylie says, “and I would … to sit around reading the bestseller list--the bound form of daytime television.” Wylie’s publishing credentials were … in French literature but for his brash political blunder of trashing one of his thesis advisers in the thesis itself. …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Challenges of Greener Cities
… The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CBGC) … and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design, ranging from why holistic … as well as their carbon footprint,” he said. “To my surprise, that’s only about a third of what we are responsible …
Trove of Tomes
… two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law texts worth … transforming the library, which already housed a collection of early legal material, into the world's most important …
At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
… This is the ninth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home … medicine, and more, here . On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Harvard Magazine has pulled from its archives … day, as this article explains , maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that people living in places where fine-particle …
Getting and Spending
… The University’s annual financial accounting—usually a … The new title (the fusty Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College has given way to a more … the prior year, was a principal factor. The $23.2-million rise in revenue from continuing and executive education …
Issue: November-December 2007
Amid Tradition, a Symbol of Change
… The New York Times profiles Nicole M. Parent ’93, the first female president of the Harvard Club of New York City, which did not even …
The Education Business
… Ever since the later nineteenth century, American schools -- from … in the last 30 years. But recent results have caused a bit of backlash. How, exactly, have economic pressures shaped … influence of business-inspired approaches" (Cuban) has arisen in the last three decades. The force of money has …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Harvard Forest Dioramas
… Outside the Harvard Fisher Museum in Petersham, Massachusetts, nearly 4,000 acres of birch, oak, and maple trees grow among rivers, rocks, and the foundations of colonial homesteads in the Harvard Forest. Inside the …
Issue: May-June 2023
Off the Shelf
… The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes, Lea professor of the history … powerful political centralization, state-owned enterprises, or industrial policy. A timely and lucid guide. A …
Issue: May-June 2023
Yesterday’s News
… 1923 The Bulletin reports that Archibald MacLeish, LL.B. ’19, … education editor, associate editor, and circulation manager of a new magazine due to appear February 24— Time. 1928 Both … for perhaps the first time in its history. Snow sculptures rise around the Yard, and so many celebrants take to the …
Issue: January-February 2018
The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang
… In the summer of 1895 , in the Indian Territory that became Oklahoma, a ragtag gang of five teenaged boys—all black, Native American, or of …
Issue: March-April 2012
News from the HAA
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board will be chosen by … All Harvard degree holders, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and governance, are entitled to vote … and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Societies: The Rise of Anti-Western Movements in the Islamic World.” The …
Issue: March-April 2007