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Campus Survey: Sexual Assault, Harassment Remain Serious Problems
On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey intended to estimate the prevalence of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students. The survey, conducted during the spring of 2019, reached about 23,000 students, of whom 36.1 percent (about 8,300) responded.
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.
Football 2019: Harvard 35, Cornell 22
No matter what happens during the remainder of this season, the 2019 Harvard football team has accomplished something neither of its two immediate predecessors did: beating Cornell.
“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.
Harvard and University of Michigan joint summit on stigma and opioid addiction
The day would be about people and stories, not statistics and graphs, said Harvard public-health scholar Mary T. Bassett at the start of Thursday’s summit on the opioid crisis. And it was. At one point, an Episcopal priest stood and opened up about his congregation back home in Philadelphia and the families there who had lost loved ones to the epidemic. He had traveled to Boston with desperate questions, hoping for a “crash course” in what to do.
The Harvard Band: a celebratory centennial history in brief
When the Harvard University Band parades through Harvard Square for the football game against Cornell this Saturday, onlookers may do a double-take. To celebrate the band’s hundredth anniversary, the usual contingent of 60 student musicians will likely swell to more than six times that number, thanks to the masses of band alumni and alumnae expected to join them for the march and a weekend of reunion festivities.
William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
News more News Click on arrow at right to view full image gallery (1 of 5) Harvard Graduate School of Education dean Bridget Terry Long and Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn pose with Ernie, Bert, Grover, Elmo, Count von Count, and Abby Cadabby. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.
Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
What makes a photograph art? A great photograph may be the result of skill and intention, or it may be the result of dumb luck: a fleeting, perfect composition captured by chance. At a time when there is a camera in every pocket, how do curators distinguish between documentary and artistic work? In this episode, Burden professor of photography Robin Kelsey, the dean of arts and humanities, explores the role of chance in artmaking generally, and in photography in particular.
Sesame Street's fiftieth anniversary party at Harvard
The speeches were nice, but it was the Muppets everybody had come to see. That’s why Sanders Theatre was packed to the roof Wednesday evening with excited listeners—all adults now, who kept breaking into wild cheers and wide grins at the sight of Elmo or Big Bird or Bert and Ernie, and whose childhood memories, as the night wore on, sometimes seemed to catch in their throats.
Harvard Faculty Divestment Debate
Faculty advocates of divesting Harvard investments in the production, distribution, and combustion of fossil fuels presented their case during the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 1—a prelude to a debate expected to take place at the next FAS meeting, scheduled for November 5.
Harvard Arts and Sciences Academic Priorities and Finances
In presenting her annual report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this afternoon, during the first faculty meeting of the academic year, Dean Claudine Gay outlined her priorities within the context of the FAS’s intellectual and financial resources—which are also reviewed in each annual message.
Court Upholds Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Program
News more News Supporters of affirmative action protested in Harvard Square the day before SFFA v. Harvard went to trial... Photograph by Liu Jie/Xinhua/Alamy Live News Harvard’s admissions policies do not discriminate against Asian-American applicants, a federal judge ruled today. 10.1.19 Research more Research Jerry X. Mitrovica Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T.
Eighth Annual HILT Conference Focuses on Peer Learning
How can professional teachers and educational institutions integrate peer learning into their pedagogy? This was the subject of the eighth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, which convened hundreds of professors, administrators, and learning and teaching specialists from around the University—and beyond—on September 27 at Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall.
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.
Football 2019: Harvard 42, Brown 7
To paraphrase Ric Ocasek, the late, great frontman of the rock group The Cars, the Harvard football team’s 42-7 victory over Brown on Friday night at Harvard Stadium was just what we needed. In bouncing back following a rather dispiriting 31-23 opening-game loss to the University of San Diego, the Crimson not only won its Ivy League opener (albeit against the conference’s weakest team), but also demonstrated snap and cohesiveness.
Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
WEED, ganja, pot, flower, dope, grass, bud: marijuana has many names, but an even greater number of chemical constituents, from THC, the psychoactive component, to cannabidiols such as CBD, often touted for its therapeutic potential. In this episode, Dr. Staci Gruber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who directs the longest-running study of medical cannabis use in the United States, discusses the effects of the plant’s components on human health.
Crows Know How to Have Fun
Long gone are the days when animal behaviorists, in the tradition of Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, assumed animals were robotic stimulus-response machines. A wealth of recent evidence supports the idea that animals think and feel; corvids—a family of birds including crows, ravens, magpies, and others—have been one frequent subject of such research.
Harvard registrar Mike Burke used to bike to work
For years Mike Burke, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ registrar, had a long and unexceptional daily commute to work from Danvers, Massachusetts. Then one day in 2014, his car broke down. He, his wife, and his two young children were, at least temporarily, now a one-car family. How would he get to his office? The wheels began to turn. Growing up in Philadelphia, Burke had been a frequent bike rider.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas profile
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans Sitting in her kitchen in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’54 is talking about animal consciousness when her two dogs, chihuahua Chapek and pug mix Kafka, begin madly snarling at each other. “What are you doing, and why?!” she demands. She appears to believe the dogs really understand her, and judging by their sudden hush, they might.
Harvard’s OTD boosts translational research.
Douglas Melton was studying frog developmental biology in the 1990s. Then his young son developed type 1 diabetes, and he vowed to find a cure for the disease, which affects as many as 22 million people worldwide. He refocused his lab on the emerging science of embryonic stem cells, which can divide and differentiate to become any cell in the body, and by the early 2000s had outlined the road map to a treatment.
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.
Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination. “You should have a record.” That sentence dropped like a hammer inside the meeting room where Khalil Gibran Muhammad, then 21 years old, was sitting across the table from a Philadelphia police-union lawyer, answering questions about the day he’d briefly been arrested. This was late May 1993.
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