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Color and Incarceration
… In 2005, during her first year of graduate school, Elizabeth Hinton traveled from New York … out of jail, caught up in drugs and addiction and poverty. Their experience was a large part of why, as a little girl, … Harlem residents confront police in 1970; the drastic rise of police presence in black neighborhoods often led to …
Issue: September-October 2019
Capital Costs
… The dimensions of Harvard’s current building … and land—the latter principally in Allston. The sharp rise since 2000 is made more graphic when five-year averages are calculated: that figure rises from $78.8 million in the first period, 1986-1990, to …
Issue: March-April 2006
Imagining the Past
… she started writing a novel about France during and after the Second World War, Sara Houghteling ’99 felt as if she’d … art collection. Her narrator, Max Berenzon, is the son of a famous Jewish art dealer who, for reasons Max doesn’t … Rose works in a museum, surreptitiously making records of the Nazis’ looting. (Of the more than 100,000 pieces of …
Issue: January-February 2009
Putting the Music in Musical Theater
… Last spring, during the height of the pandemic’s catastrophic first wave in New … tights glides across her living room in a New York high-rise, as the singer’s voice lilts over long, slow, mournful …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Senior Celebrants
… Two 99-year-olds— Frances Pass Addelson ’30, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed ’32, L ’33, of Kennebunk, Maine—the oldest graduates present on Commencement day, were …
Issue: July-August 2008
Understanding Ebola
… 2013, Ebola slowly began spreading in West Africa, killing the majority of people it infected. The disease, caused by a filovirus, … disparage the tools and skills of critical care—‘Dialysis machines? Ventilators? Infusion pumps?’—even well after some …
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
… As reported, the University’s major professional schools have begun … health and safety first; protecting the academic enterprise; leveraging our breadth and diversity; and preserving …
Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade
… Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no …
William Giannobile Named Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine
… and oral regenerative medicine, will succeed Bruce Donoff as the dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), Harvard …
Back to the Bond Market...
… Harvard is in the process of issuing $730 million of tax-exempt revenue … revenue bonds. As a result, total debt outstanding will rise from $6.3 billion at the end of the last fiscal year …
The "Sellout"
… In the hazardous waters of American race politics, a particular … approval from “white” society quickly yields suspicions of racial treachery. The black “sellout” suffers a form of …
Issue: November-December 2007
Behind the Scenes: Journalism in an Internet Era
… donors like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. It is no secret that the rise of the Internet has siphoned advertising from newspapers, …
Clothes Overboard!
… The first hot-air balloon trip across the English Channel … had hoped to leave Jeffries behind, despite his funding of the expedition). But floating technology in 1785 wasn’t … toward a forest too extensive to traverse. Needing both to rise above thick tree trunks and halt momentum, it …
Issue: May-June 2021
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
… When the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare health disparities among … equity to the forefront,” explains Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and a …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard Professors Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
… Thirteen Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) this week, including half a dozen whose work has been profiled in Harvard Magazine : Dan Barouch began developing …