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Antibiotics Feed These Bacteria, Instead of Killing Them
… science fiction, but it's not. A paper published today in the journal Science explains that some bacteria thrive on a diet of antibiotics, instead of dying as previous science predicts they should. The story …
Endowment Distribution to Be Reduced 8 Percent; Budget Cuts Loom
… On March 18, the University advised schools and other units that … The reduction is driven by the sharp decline in the value of endowment assets first reported last fall (see here for … for operations were provisionally estimated to rise further in the current fiscal year, to $1.4 billion or …
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the Movies
… This is the second installment in Harvard Magazine ’s new series, … as a school for aspiring artists, but it has produced some of the most interesting creators—filmmakers, film writers, … of Andrew Bujalski ’98 , the filmmaker credited with the rise of mumblecore, an independent-film genre focused on …
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 …
The War and the Writ
… has been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center for the last seven years. He is not a terrorist. He’s a mistake, a victim of the war against al Qaeda. An interrogator first told him … But courts eventually begin to reassert their authority as crises pass, says Vermeule. The government, perhaps fearing …
Issue: January-February 2009
Harvard College Applications Increase
… College today reported receiving 35,022 applications for the class of 2017—a total more than 2 percent above the number of … from the 774 admitted early last year. … Applications rise slightly more than 2 percent from last year. … Harvard …
An Unexpected Risk Factor
… not addressed in Mohamed A. El-Erian’s annual letter was the uncertainty arising from unanticipated change in Harvard … and perhaps in other senior investment personnel—many of them newly hired by him. On September 11, the day after a … and services….” He is the likely candidate to run the enterprise in the future. Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News …
Issue: November-December 2007
An Engine of Class Mobility
… for Harvard may sound strangely unambitious or askew from the University’s main ambitions, perhaps because I am loading onto the institution many of the concerns and hopes I have for the United States as a … in general—and Harvard is by far the best known of them—in developing America’s strengths, appeal, and …
Issue: September-October 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi: “The Basics of Democratic Practice”
… Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—founder and chair of Burma’s National League for Democracy (NLD), and now a member of that nation’s elected parliamentary minority—spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening. Making use of …
A Surge on Top of a Surge
… Harvard reported Tuesday, December 14, that the COVID-19 case count on campus in the prior week—178 … count throughout the fall semester: this in a community of students and employees with a 97 percent vaccination rate. In a letter addressed to members of the Harvard community, Provost Alan Garber, Executive …
Medicare Solutions and Problems
… The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is … to their American bond holdings, interest rates could rise substantially. They would rise even more if the current bond owners decided to reduce …
Issue: May-June 2004
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
… Ganeshananthan ’s first novel, Love Marriage , came out in the early spring of 2008, Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war—the conflict at the heart of the book’s plot—seemed to have ossified into something …
Issue: May-June 2023
Rogoff: A Whiff of Inflation Now?
… Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. Rogoff , a member of the economics department widely known as co-author of This Time Is Different (read the Harvard Magazine review) —an economics bestseller about …
A Park of One’s Own
… Walk through the front archway at the Frederick Law Olmsted National … In the middle, ivy runs up the rough and reddish trunk of a 90-foot Eastern hemlock. “Olmsted planted that soon … 1883,” park ranger Mark D. Swartz explained during a tour of the Brookline, Massachusetts, site. “He envisioned that …
Issue: September-October 2014
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
… The Harvard Art Museums have received 330 … to the museum, the finest private collection of such images anywhere—from George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57. … Harvard and the Boston area as a top site for the study of Dutch art outside Europe. Almost exactly 25 years ago, …