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Putting the Tea Party in Perspective
The modern Tea Party , like other political movements before it, self-identifies with the spirit that moved eighteenth-century Bostonians to cast imported tea into Boston harbor. In a witty account of the uses and abuses of history—mostly for political …
Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships
Four seniors have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2022-23 academic year. Jack Swanson, of Currier House, a government concentrator, will be the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College. Sorcha …
Issue: July-August 2022
Engineering a School’s Future
One hundred days into his new position as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and after consultation with faculty members in the school and across the University, Francis “Frank” J. Doyle III shared …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Settled in 1623, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is among the oldest cities in the United States. Historic buildings line the downtown streets, drawing visitors from near and far. Yet, increasingly, the reason to visit this coastal city, especially in the dead …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings: An Analysis
Editor’s note: Harvard Magazine asked contributing editor Lincoln Caplan, a leading legal-affairs journalist, to analyze the Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action in college admissions. For almost half a century , race-conscious admissions have …
“Risk Forgiveness”
President Drew Faust, who spoke at Morning Prayers last academic year about the 1965 voting-rights march in Selma and about the diversity of the Harvard community , opened the 2015 fall term by visiting Appleton Chapel on September 2 to talk about …
Infrared: A Renewable Energy Source?
Physicists at THE Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have conceived of a device that could produce energy from the infrared radiation naturally emitted from Earth into outer space. Wallace professor of applied physics Federico …
Harvard Election Results
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association were announced this afternoon, as part of Commencement week. The news capped a competitive campaign season , in which two slates of candidates …
University News Briefs
Tough Grading for Gen Ed The College’s flagship general-education curriculum came under sharp criticism when a faculty review committee released its report for discussion at the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting. The requirement that …
Issue: July-August 2015
Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having just gone through a most difficult one,” punctuated by sharp conflicts over the views and leadership of President …
Issue: November-December 2005
“A Calling Above All Others”
Ruth Simmons today delivered the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 2023 Convocation speech, calling on the school’s 649 soon-to-be graduates to remain hopeful and persistent in the face of the “attack upon educators.” “By probing deeply into what is …
Fred Ho ’79 to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Chinese-American jazz saxophonist, composer, writer, and self-described “radical, revolutionary artist” Fred Ho '79 will receive a Harvard Arts Medal on November 13, an unusual conferral of such an honor, which is typically made in the spring at Arts …
Money-Manager Compensation
Compensation data for the most highly paid Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment personnel—subject to some sharp criticism in recent years—were released on the afternoon of December 21, as the campus emptied for the winter recess. Salary, …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Professor Who Quantified Democracy
In the weeks and months after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the number “3.5 percent” kept showing up—like a mantra, or maybe a prayer—in different corners of the internet. It was repeated in social media posts, long Reddit threads, online …
Issue: July-August 2025
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“One of my small, goofy, weird joys is to get a very, very local newspaper from a small town, like my hometown, and read the police blotter,” says best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You , Celeste Ng ’02. “ Mr. …
Issue: November-December 2022