Features
To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors
Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
A melting pot: Harvard’s 1968 football team
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor General
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
Harvard and the making of Big Football
Boosting the game, and The Game
Profile of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.
Unequal Distribution of Incomes
The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth
Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.