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Alice Hamilton in a dark dress with high lace collar, gazing left in a sepia-toned portrait

Features | May-June 2025

Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970

by Daniel Stone

Chad Cowan

Features | January-February 2010

Tools and Tests

Stem cells are being used as tools in regenerative medicine and drug discovery.

by Jonathan Shaw

Li prepares to dissect a pangolin, from a popular pamphlet, <i>Li Shizhen: Great Scholar of Medical Drugs</i> (1955).

Features | January-February 2010

Li Shizhen

Brief life of a pioneering pharmacologist: 1518-1593

by Carla Nappi

At the Merkers salt mines in central Germany, American GIs admire Édouard Manet’s <em>In the Conservatory,</em> one of the thousands of rare works and documents stored there by the Nazi regime late in World War II. Monuments Man George Stout (see next image), a Fogg Museum conservator turned U.S. Army lieutenant, supervised the rescue of 40 tons of art from the site in April 1945.

Features | January-February 2010

The Art Army

Harvard’s Monuments Men at war

Features | November-December 2009

The Ph.D. Problem

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

by Louis Menand

The iconic <i>Silence=Death</i> neon sign, 1987, by the Silence=Death Project, appropriated (and inverted) the pink triangle used by Nazis to identify known homosexuals; the message, in poster form, preceded the formation of ACT UP. This is a copy of the original from the collection of the New Museum, New York.

Features | November-December 2009

From AIDS to Art

View video from an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum that explores the visual legacy of ACT UP’s campaign to galvanize action against a new epidemic.

Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”

Features | November-December 2009

Immersed in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Features | November-December 2009

Professor Video

Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom

by Craig Lambert

Features | November-December 2009

Ayn Rand

Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist

by Jennifer Burns

Gawande in his various environments: in his office at the Harvard School of Public Health

Features | September-October 2009

The Unlikely Writer

Atul Gawande, surgeon and health-policy scholar, never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Features | September-October 2009

An Ounce of Prevention

Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”

by David A. Moss