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New Fellows
This fall the magazine welcomes seniors Che Applewhaite and Meena Venkataramanan to its editorial staff as the 2020-2021 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next …
Issue: September-October 2020
School of Public Health Graduates Hear Blunt Critiques of Trump
Less than a week after a devastating wave of federal funding cuts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), which saw more than 130 researchers receive grant-termination notices in a single day, the school gathered Wednesday morning for a …
News Briefs
… second phase would be built, subject to approval, between 2025 and 2028. Despite the pandemic-related emptying-out of …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard Layoffs Continue, with More to Come
Several Harvard professional schools and one institute have begun layoffs this summer in response to the federal government’s actions: a federal funding freeze, the potential loss of international students, and an increased tax on endowment investment …
Harvard’s Finances in a Challenging Year
… a smaller 2.5 percent increase is authorized for fiscal 2025. (These measured increases smooth the lagging effect of … in new employees is expected to moderate in fiscal year 2025 and beyond. Employee benefits spending increased $62 …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Harvard’s Standoff: The Research At Risk
How much federal research funding does Harvard receive? Harvard received $686 million in federal research funding in fiscal year 2024—11 percent of its overall annual operating budget. Most came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which …
Issue: July-August 2025
“We Salute You, and We Thank You”
Following Thursday’s in-person, new-look Commencement for the class of 2022 , the University this morning put on a unique, second “Commencement Celebration” for a huge crowd of 2020 and 2021 graduates (deprived of normal graduations during the COVID-19 …
John S. Rosenberg , Nancy Walecki , Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
Board of Overseers and HAA Candidates Finalized
… The University has announced the finalized 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers and the …
Housing in the Climate Crosshairs
… plans are under stress. After the L.A. wildfires in January 2025, for example, California’s insurance commissioner …
Behind the Scenes: Writing About Walter Johnson and St. Louis
In August 2014, a few months after I graduated from Harvard College , I came home to St. Louis to reports of mass protests erupting in Ferguson, the suburb just north of the city that would soon become world-famous. African-American teenager Michael …
House Renewal Update
… effect can now be calculated as follows, through fiscal 2025 (the period used in arriving at the figure): Apply a … period, yielding approximately $26 million through fiscal 2025. Several variables make this gross calculation inexact. … that would actually be distributed in fiscal 2017 through 2025, reflecting estimated appreciation in the underlying …
Issue: September-October 2016
AI is Making Medical Decisions — But For Whom?
… Harvard Medical School, at Mass General Brigham’s 2025 Medically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare (MESH) … medicine at Stanford and the keynote speaker at Harvard’s 2025 Commencement, calls an “iPatient” phenomenon. The …
In the Crosshairs
… came after Harvard on March 31 . Updated April 14,2025, 8:30 P.M.: Read about the April 3 list of federal …
Issue: May-June 2025
Civil Rights Attorney Sherrilyn Ifill to Receive 2022 Radcliffe Medal
Sherrilyn Ifill , president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 27, 2022, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced on Friday. The lawyer and scholar will join Madeleine …
In Federal Court, Harvard and the Government Have Friends
Later this month , Harvard and the Trump administration are set to meet in court, where—if reported negotiations don’t yield a settlement deal—each side will present arguments about the federal funding freeze that has threatened more than $2.2 billion in …