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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
Slide Show: The Women of Mburahati
… In The September-October 2010 cover article, "The Social … Epidemic," readers meet Kulwa Amiri Mbunju, a resident of Mburahati, a neighborhood in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and … Mbunju in their homes. In this neighborhood, Harvard School of Public Health lecturer Marc Mitchell tested a mobile …
Off the Shelf
… and Wang, $30; $13.95 paper). Think “Healthcare reform: the comic book.” An illustrated guide to the new law by the MIT professor of economics who advised former Massachusetts … From the scale of the universe to the molecules that gave rise to life, the director of Harvard’s origins of life …
Issue: January-February 2012
A Smaller Surplus—and Endowment Returns Turn Positive
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, published today, … fiscal 2022 . The latest results punctuated a full decade of Crimson black ink, dating from fiscal 2014, when … elaborate hedging strategies. In that sense, the seeming rise in financial market volatility and political …
Colonies of Clay
… Full of some unknowable purpose, a little clay monster gesticulates from the kitchen countertop. Slightly damp, it resembles a newly … desert planet. While a small kiln hums in the background of his Cambridge apartment, Christopher Adams ’94 smiles …
Issue: July-August 2015
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
… Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies … population-level view, can help guide the decisions of leaders. Mobile phone location data can reveal large-scale patterns of activity and travel between regions. In this episode, …
The Mediatrician
… This past June , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that violent video games posed no more danger to children than the grimmest of Grimms’ fairy tales. At issue was a California ban of the sale of violent video games to minors—and seven of …
Issue: November-December 2011
Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium
… Acting out of "a sense of public duty," Ashok Nimgade '80, M.P.H. '98, M.D., of … sent by David Anthony Garcia '81 to Brian G. Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The letter …
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… St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. '94 (Simon … and Schuster, $24). It's a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. But the truth about the … crafted with an eye to both function and fine art surprise and delight. The chest below, by a Cantabrigian, is in …
Issue: March-April 2004
These Bots Were Made for Walking
… from helping hearts pump blood to fighting cancer . Now, they’re adding a new accomplishment to their list: improving … have tackled this challenge by designing a special type of robot called an exosuit: a soft, flexible robotic device … improve on nature. Cajigas and Bonato’s work shows that machines, by perturbing natural walking patterns, can help …
The War in Europe
… Ukraine has proved to be a different kind of emergency. Unlike Afghan scholars, for whom the threat is so dire that the only choice is to evacuate as … Unrue says, to remain in their own country or nearby. Some of them have joined the fighting; others have loved ones in …
Issue: January-February 2023
His Story in the Making
… classmates thought Selamawi "Mawi" Asgedom '99 was just another kid from outside Chicago, a history major and resident of Pforzheimer House. He flashed a 1,000-kilowatt smile, … next week in USA Today saying, 'Cities report an alarming rise in parking meter vandalism.' But you've got to get kids …
Issue: March-April 2002
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 …
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
… 23, 1918, when Harvard College opened its doors for the new school year, the Spanish flu had infected hundreds of Cambridge residents. More than 3,000 local … with cases in the thousands and new infections still on the rise, he banned public gatherings and ordered schools, …
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