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The Year That Was
… T-shirt Spirit To build, and bolster, spirit among the pandemic-dispersed members of the College class of 2024—many deferred enrolling; those who matriculated took …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Maximalist
… Everyone in the recording booth agreed the cello wasn’t coming through. … for a few measures, to help it cut through the deep thicket of piano accompaniment. Jazz and opera singers, Sanford … it wrong, but agreed to give it a try. “That’s the danger of having the composer there!” Haimovitz explained after the …
Issue: November-December 2008
Nicole Maestas
… Napa Valley childhood, everything was grapes. Though her father worked in the wine finance business, the future MacArthur professor of economics and health care policy showed interest in …
Issue: July-August 2025
Rick Lowe Questions the Concept of “Value” at GSD Class Day
… As a young artist in the early 1990s, Rick Lowe had just completed a painting … we don’t need that,’” Lowe, speaking at the Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) Class Day ceremony on May 27, recalled the … Lowe shared the lessons he has learned from his two decades of work helping build those solutions through art and …
Climbing the Hill
… In the fall of 2001, students supporting a "living wage" for Harvard's janitors and other low-paid employees held rallies to keep the pressure on … Inman Square, Cambridge, neighborhood. Photograph courtesy of Jarret Barrios The young politician was Jarrett Barrios …
Issue: May-June 2003
Poised for Partnerships
… The new dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been in his post for … in Allston, where the school’s new building will begin to rise this coming summer , with a probable occupancy date in …
Calhoun-Fall
… Peter H. Wood ’64, Ph.D. ’72, an emeritus history professor at Duke University and former member of Harvard’s … Board of Overseers, submitted this essay reflecting on the recent removal of the massive John C. Calhoun statue in … moment for Calhoun-Fall had finally arrived. … 22638 … The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a …
Alumnus Leads Anti-Gun-Violence Gesture at State of the Union Address
… The accidental gunshot in a police station that paralyzed … he became the first quadriplegic to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Having lived for so long as a “visible symbol” of the danger of guns, as Jeremy W. Peters has reported in …
Ben Bradlee ’43 to Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
… In 1963, President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, signed the executive order establishing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, which is … contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or …
Off the Shelf
… The Inside Game, by Keith Law ’94 (Morrow, $28.99). Absent … with references to Thinking Fast and Slow -style analyses of anchoring bias (the case for robot umpires), groupthink, … nothing is the easiest bad call.” Ouch. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard Medical School Revises Conflicts-of-Interest Policies
… its policies governing faculty members’ financial conflicts of interest and commitment (COI). This is the first such comprehensive revision since 2004 , and, by … public confidence in the integrity of the scientific enterprise”—no minor challenge in light of public concern over …
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 …
Lessons in Leadership
… Harvard University, or even America, when he came across the website for the International Summer School on … Harvard collaborative that aims to develop a new generation of post-Soviet leaders in the Republic of Georgia. But he instantly knew the program was for him. …
Ben Franklin’s Project
… Joyce E. Chaplin, Phillips professor of early American history, is a multitool scholar, working across fields including the history of science, climate, colonialism, and … attempt to address eighteenth-century energy and climate crises. The former concerned the looming exhaustion of native …
Issue: May-June 2025
“An Atomically Precise Forest for the Price of the Sunlight”
… P ond scum may not seem useful, but the substances bacteria produce that give bathtub slime its tenacity and the biofilm on the back of your tongue its mucilaginous qualities can be very useful …