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Harvard Public Health’s $350-Million Infusion
… Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has received a $350-million gift from The Morningside Foundation, the philanthropic arm of … a leader of the family investment and other business enterprises, locally and in Hong Kong. “The Public-Health Moment” …
Accelerating Innovation
… Douglas Melton was studying frog developmental biology in the 1990s. Then his young son developed type 1 diabetes, and … worldwide. He refocused his lab on the emerging science of embryonic stem cells, which can divide and differentiate … reported annually to his office by Harvard researchers have risen 60 percent, and licensing revenue has more than …
Issue: March-April 2019
Daniel Schrag and David Keith: Can Solar Geoengineering Help Fight Climate Change?
… geological history. But in human terms, at this early stage of climate impacts such as rising seas, rampant wildfires, and intensifying storms, the pace of change has been perceived as slow. In this … around the globe as ice sheets melt and sea level rises . What to do about the warming is dominated by …
Tom Hanks: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
… As prepared for delivery. Thank you. On behalf of all of us who have studied for two years at Chabot … State University, Sacramento, and forty-five years at the School of Hard Knocks, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree … of mighty rivers, if such a thing should be done and make machines that bend steel as easily as using our bare hands. …
Understanding Ebola
… 2013, Ebola slowly began spreading in West Africa, killing the majority of people it infected. The disease, caused by a filovirus, … disparage the tools and skills of critical care—‘Dialysis machines? Ventilators? Infusion pumps?’—even well after some …
Off the Shelf
… The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert J. Gordon ’62 (Princeton, $39.95). In a huge study of the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War, the …
Issue: January-February 2016
A New Green Revolution?
… between nine and 11 billion people will be living on the planet. What will everyone eat? More than half the … such as rice, wheat, and corn. But agricultural yields of some of these row crops have already plateaued in a third … and their pitfalls have become more apparent, incomes have risen in the developing world, leading to preference-driven …
Issue: March-April 2018
Off the Shelf
… Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual … As she demonstrated in Mother Nature , the author (professor of anthropology emerita at the University of …
Issue: May-June 2009
Cambridge 02138
… working to reduce incarceration, I was thrilled to see the profile of Bruce Western’s work on the deep injustices wrought … 50 states plus the federal government. I was somewhat surprised, however, that an academician like Bruce Western would …
Issue: May-June 2013
To the Rescue
… On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban—August 15, 2021—Omaid … Sharifi was in his usual place: on the street with a team of artists, painting a mural on one of the concrete blast … by David Peterson Still, August 15 took Sharifi by surprise. He and fellow activists spent half the day painting in …
Issue: January-February 2023
Off the Shelf
… in Education, by John Palfrey ’94, J.D. ’01 (MIT, $19.95). The author, previously Harvard Law’s vice dean for library and information resources, now head of Phillips Academy, Andover, plunges into the fierce debate … powers from invading and occupying their lands”—giving rise to a nationalistic response. Life without End, by Karl …
Issue: January-February 2018
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
… Conant University professor Danielle S. Allen grew up in a large, “politically committed” extended family in 1970s Southern California. “Almost as if with mother’s milk,” she … A massive increase in income and wealth inequality and rise in incarceration rates, an acceleration of the climate …
Hugs All Around
… Harvard conducted its 362nd Commencement today. During the morning exercises, the University conferred honorary … is available here) , including José Antonio Abreu (founder of Venezuela’s El Sistema, the music-education and social … disgrace you if your success is mediocre. And if you do not rise to the head not only of your profession, but of your …
Point of No Return
… Soon after the Harvard community was upended and scattered around the … My roommates, Sunday and Catie, and I would sip from mugs of herbal teas on those cold Cambridge nights and snuggle … or at least tame my overzealous drive to work. Catie and I often had long, philosophical discussions about the meaning …
Issue: July-August 2020
Prospective Overseers State Their Views
… In light of the importance of the annual election for members of … in the information age must be able to manage data and machines. And the climate crisis will not be solved in … as a G7 central bank governor at the centre of the crises of global finance, the euro, Brexit, climate and …