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Free to Fly
Inside the conservatory , it doesn’t take long for one of them to land on Kathy Fiore’s forearm. The large rice paper butterfly, a silvery yellow with black veined lines, hails from Southeast Asia. Although it flies in a gentle, floating manner and is now …
Issue: November-December 2023
A Grand Time
Three years ago, Luella Kramer's friends were shaking their heads. "They all thought I'd lost my mind," the retired nurse recalls, laughing. "They said they wouldn't want the responsibility. They wondered how I could risk it." What Kramer, of Holden, …
Issue: November-December 2003
A Smaller Surplus—and Endowment Returns Turn Positive
Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, published today, suggests that a post-pandemic new normal is largely in place. Operating revenues rose, but less than in the prior year, when students who had deferred admission or …
The State of Harvard’s Arts and Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues issued their annual financial and other reports during an Election Day faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon, while also broaching other matters—among them, the desirability of students …
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
Far from the fall-semester headlines about Harvard, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) pursued ideas across its disciplines to spur intellectual growth, enhance research, and maximize effective use of resources—the final stage of the strategic …
Issue: March-April 2024
Cambridge 02138
(Coach) Murphy Time Harvard Magazine does a grave disservice glorifying football with a cover story on Tim Murphy ( “Murphy Time,” November-December 2015, page 35). With overwhelming medical evidence that football causes chronic brain damage, how can …
Issue: January-February 2016
Crimson Construction
In 2020, pandemic-induced fears about a recession and prospective deficits led Harvard to curtail capital outlays sharply. Spending on new buildings and renovation—always significant at an institution with more than 600 structures spread across Cambridge, …
Issue: September-October 2024
Football: Harvard 31- Penn 28
In the 151 years of Harvard football there have been many players who have stepped into the breach to rescue the Crimson. (Think Frank Kenneth Champi ’69, “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.”) Now the name of Charles P. DePrima ’25 must be added to the annals. On …
Silent Study-Ins
Last December , approximately 100 pro-Palestine students filed into Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room, taped flyers to the back of their laptops, and read for an hour. This “study-in,” billed as “silent” and “non-disruptive” by the student organizers, …
Land of the Living
In April and May , birders flock to Mount Auburn Cemetery. Dressed in fleece and caps, binoculars slung around their necks, they enter by the Egyptian Revival gateway at 7 a.m. , and spread stealthily across the sculpted 175-acre landscape. Winding …
Issue: May-June 2017
On Caregiving
In 1966, as a visiting medical student at a London teaching hospital, I interviewed a husband and wife, in their early twenties, who had recently experienced a truly calamitous health catastrophe. On their wedding night, in their first experience of …
Issue: July-August 2010
"We Need a Win"
Editor’s note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for office, we asked Garrett Graff ’03 to talk with two Harvard graduates who have decided to step back from front-line …
Issue: September-October 2007
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvards endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.7 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Issue: November-December 2006
Harvard Endowment Increases $11.3 Billion to $53.2 Billion, and University Operations Yield $283-Million Surplus Despite Pandemic
H arvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, published today, shows much more favorable results than might have been expected when the University was forced to send students home in March 2020, beginning more than a year of …
When Technology and Society Clash
In early 2016, as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign emerged from the Republican pack and Hillary Clinton battled Bernie Sanders through a long Democratic primary season, computer scientist Latanya Sweeney launched a new research project. For more than …
Issue: November-December 2024