John Harvard's Journal

Updated 8.29.2023

New Digs

September-October 2023

Harvard President Claudine Gay in her new office July 5, 2023

Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC

New digs: Claudine Gay settles in at Massachusetts Hall—just across the Old Yard from her former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean’s office in University Hall—on July 5, the first (post-holiday) workday in the thirtieth president’s new administration. A profile of President Gay appears elsewhere in this issue.

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