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The Fiscal Crunch
… With no relief since the University’s early-December announcement that the … reported in much greater detail at the website): • Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators assume its … years; the share funded by endowment distributions has risen from 35 percent a decade ago to 56 percent now. And …
Issue: March-April 2009
The Lucky Effect
… in a white coat tells you about Jane, who found $5 on the sidewalk; Johnny, who was splashed by a passing car; … don’t like ) or a large smiling face ( really like ) or one of four in-between faces. Which face would you pick? If … in a recent study of bias in children, you’ll surprise everyone with how much more you prefer the lucky to the …
Issue: March-April 2007
Congratulations to the Winner of Our Photo Sweepstakes!
… Congratulations to Betty Breck ’60, the winner of Harvard Magazine 's 2010 Commencement & Reunion Photo Sweepstakes. Breck, of Groton, South Dakota, was randomly selected to receive …
Harvard Study: For Cost-effectiveness, Treat Half of U.S. Adults with Statins
… a major risk factor for heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States. A new study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that statins, a class of …
A Decade of Faculty Diversity
… Every year , Harvard tracks the diversity of its faculties in terms of race and gender, with the goal of increasing its numbers …
Focusing on the Ph.D.
… During her tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), from mid 2005 through last …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Law School Looks Ahead
… The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer … in student-edited law reviews, now academic law is giving rise to peer-reviewed journals like those in the social and …
Issue: September-October 2001
Casing the Future
… For years, the "technology" of cases remained static. They were written documents consisting of text, tables, and illustrations. Today, however, …
Issue: September-October 2003
“Our Planet in Microcosm”
… US. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Nicholas Burns addressed the … The price of greatness is Responsibility. One cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the …
Pigskin Programs
… won seven college football national championships. Though the next decades featured strong teams and significant fan … mostly contained to the Northeast, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, collegiate football kicked off nationwide. Harvard squared up against—and …
Issue: November-December 2023
Harvard on the Block
… Harvardiana from the collection of Michael Droller. He thinks that the doll, … four years ago. But he has never forgotten that first "surprise and fascination" at encountering the country's oldest …
Issue: March-April 2002
The Changing Corporation
… The President and Fellows of Harvard College—as the seven-member, self-perpetuating Corporation, the … governing board, is formally known—is in the midst of unusually swift and extensive change. On April 7, Robert …
Issue: July-August 2002
Out of Place?
… Imagine you are curator-in-chief of all of Harvard’s collections of tangible things and a donor … on view through May 29, principally at galleries of the Historical Scientific Instruments Collection in the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Chronicler of Two Americas
… I first met Daniel Aaron 23 years ago. He was almost 80 then, retired for several years from his professorship at Harvard: a lean, fit, cheerful man, with a … book’s final pages, Dan, warily alert, registers his surprise at the many advantages life has bestowed upon him: “I …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Dating Game
… Since 1978, thousands of people have streamed into Tercentenary Theatre on an early Thursday in June, looking forward to the University’s annual celebration of graduates past and present that is Commencement day. Yet …
Issue: May-June 2005