Jill Lepore teaches history at Harvard and writes about history for the New Yorker. But she’s equally interested in the present: “We have an obligation to try to make sense of the relationship between today and yesterday,” she says. Lepore’s latest book The Deadline, which comes out on Aug. 29, is a selection of her essays over…Continue Reading Why Historian Jill Lepore Hated Barbie
One raced to create a better, faster test system to help deal with the spread of COVID; the other wielded big data to break myths about who achieves the American Dream and the obstacles faced by others. For those achievements, the University has awarded the coveted George Ledlie Prize to biologist Michael Springer and economist…Continue Reading Springer, Chetty win Ledlie Prize
Hopi Hoekstra, a pathbreaking scholar of the life sciences in the interdisciplinary field of evolutionary genetics, begins her tenure as Edgerley Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences today. Hoekstra’s extensive teaching portfolio includes her role as course head and longtime instructor in “Life Sciences 1b,” one of Harvard College’s foundational science courses. She also…Continue Reading Hopi Hoekstra takes office
