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Michael Kremer wins Nobel Prize in economics
News more News Professor Michael Kremer shares the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences with two scholars from MIT. 10.14.19 Recovery coach Raina McMahan (left) talked with addiction-medicine physician Sarah Wakeman about her stigmatizing experiences with health care and drug use. Photograph courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.
“Lost Decades" by Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden: an excerpt
It has been a rotten economic decade for the United States. Why—and can anything be done to keep the stagnant new normal from persisting? In Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (W.W. Norton, $26.95), Menzie D. Chinn ’84, of the University of Wisconsin, and Stanfield professor of international peace Jeffry A. Frieden advance a macroeconomic account of these woes, and a (difficult) path away from them.
Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
Cities are an integral part of Earth’s future: by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in an urban area. Solutions to social problems, from climate change to poverty, will therefore be tied to the fates of cities. In this episode, Glimp professor of economics Edward Glaeser explains why he is overwhelmingly optimistic about urban growth. Cities, he says, are engines of innovation and economic activity that create opportunity.
Harvard's Jerry X. Mitrovica Awarded MacArthur grant
News more News Jerry X. Mitrovica Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The geophysicist has pioneered the understanding that sea-level rise around the globe will vary significantly depending on crustal dynamics and gravitational forces. 9.25.19 Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
Football 2019: San Diego 31, Harvard 23
A Princeton man once remarked, “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” For a venerable Harvard man, the real dark night of the soul came at three o’clock last Saturday afternoon, at halftime of the Crimson football team’s 2019 opener at the University of San Diego’s Torero Stadium. Harvard trailed 24-0 and San Diego had racked up 305 yards of total offense to the Crimson’s 70.
Isaac Kohane studies exceptional responders
As a medical student in the 1980s, Isaac “Zak” Kohane heard stories—from patients, mentors, and colleagues—of nearly miraculous recoveries from cancer. A patient given weeks to live instead survives for years. An experimental drug works exceptionally well—in only one patient. Or, most controversially, a patient rejects chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, and somehow lives. As a trainee, Kohane found many such stories quite literally unbelievable.
Animator Renee Zhan profiled by S.I. Rosenbaum
Renee Zhan ’16 was hiking along a humid mountain trail in Japan when she looked down to discover that her legs and feet were covered with more than 50 leeches. “True terror is what I felt,” she recalled in a recent interview. “I spent maybe 30 minutes just picking them all off.” But as an animator, Zhan has long been interested in the disgusting and the visceral. Her short films often feature things that eat each other—and themselves.
"Angela Davis: Freed by the People" exhibit at Schlesinger Library
When news broke in early 2018 that Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library had acquired the papers of radical activist and academic Angela Davis, an icon since the 1970s, perhaps no one on Harvard’s campus was more thrilled than Elizabeth Hinton.
Linda Liedel of Harvard women’s soccer
At four years old, Linda Liedel ’21 decided she wanted to play soccer, following in the footsteps of her older brother. Her parents said sure, go for it. The trash talk started immediately, not just from opposing players, but also from their parents, who made it clear that a girl didn’t belong on a field of boys. “They were like, ‘You should not be playing this sport, what are you doing here, this is the wrong gym,’” Liedel recalled.
Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year
The Harvard community learned at least two things about Lawrence S. Bacow during his first year as the University’s twenty-ninth president: he is very much a people person, and very peripatetic. The two are connected. During a conversation at Massachusetts Hall a couple of weeks after Commencement, Bacow said, “This was a year in which I learned a lot about Harvard.” That is saying something.
Ulysses S. Grant
By late 1863, most of the major Civil War battles in the West—Shiloh, Stones River, Port Hudson, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga—had been fought. Union forces had the upper hand. Much of the credit for the success went to Major General Ulysses S. Grant, whose aggressiveness especially appealed to President Lincoln, long frustrated by the cavalcade of hesitant, high-maintenance generals who had commanded the Army of the Potomac in the East since 1861.
The future of work and the sharing economy
In a Hartford, Connecticut, courtroom last fall, Shannon Liss-Riordan ’90, J.D. ’96, was trying to prove that Ocean State Job Lot, a New England retail chain, illegally withheld overtime pay from its assistant managers. Eligibility for overtime, she asserted, depends on a straightforward set of legal tests, including how much time workers spend on management relative to non-management tasks, and how much they earn relative to non-exempt employees.
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