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Sophomore Class Acquires Its Color
The class of 2015 was the center of attention yesterday, hosted in Memorial Church by the Harvard Alumni Association and the Undergraduate Council for the official presentation of the sophomores’ class color: blue. The ceremony restored a College …
National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard
On Monday, June 8, against the backdrop of national protests against police forces and recent allegations of a climate of racism and discrimination within the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the University released a statement announcing the …
Bricks and Mortar
Much has been made of the University’s multimillion-dollar investments in online education. But this remains very much a physical campus, investing to renovate the undergraduate Houses, create new core facilities like the Harvard Art Museums, and grow …
Issue: March-April 2015
Academic Allston, At Last
More than a quarter-century after Harvard began banking land for expansion in Allston, beyond the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus, academic growth there is reliably under way—and the faculties immediately involved are fostering intellectual …
Issue: July-August 2016
Uncharted Territory
Last winter, thinking about my impending graduation, I called my friend James Quillen ’22 to get his advice about applying to the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. On the weekend we decided to speak, I had a meeting here and a deadline there, but James …
Issue: July-August 2023
Speaking Volumes
A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Holdings at Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of …
Issue: September-October 2023
Special Gifts
IMPACT | OPPORTUNITES | TESTIMONIALS As Harvard University pursues exciting opportunities—from the arts and engineering sciences to ever-wider international engagement— Harvard Magazine is committed to responding with coverage, providing …
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
THe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association were announced on Commencement day. For detailed coverage of the Overseer candidates’ views, read their responses to Harvard Magazine ’s …
Capital Costs
The dimensions of Harvard’s current building boom—readily obvious to sidewalk superintendents along Memorial Drive at Western Avenue (graduate-student housing), across from Mather House (ditto), behind the Science Center (physical sciences and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Bake at 375
Joanne Chang ’91, owner of the three Flour Bakery + Café venues in Boston, will create the birthday cake for Harvard's 375th birthday party on October 14. Chang, profiled in Harvard Magazine' s Montage section in 2008, recently spoke at an event for the …
Hammonds Named Dean of the College
Evelynn M. Hammonds, the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, will be the next dean of Harvard College, the University announced today. Hammonds, who is Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African …
“A Moral Obligation”
“I tell people the first 60 years are the hardest,” jokes Charles Berlin ’58, Ph.D. ’63. He would know: Berlin has headed Harvard Library’s Judaica Division since September 1962, when he was a 26-year-old graduate student finishing a dissertation in …
Issue: September-October 2022
A Championship—and Seasons Cut Short
A fter College administrators informed students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, Harvard Athletics began to make its own cancellations—a necessary response, but a brutal blow to athletes, coaches, and staff. On …
Issue: May-June 2020
Ben Franklin’s Project
Joyce E. Chaplin, Phillips professor of early American history, is a multitool scholar, working across fields including the history of science, climate, colonialism, and environment. That breadth of expertise is reflected in her affiliate appointments, …
Issue: May-June 2025
Vita: Joseph T. Walker
In 1934, chemist Joseph T. Walker, Ph.D. ’33, took on the task of creating a crime-detection laboratory for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Using science in crime detection wasn’t new—Arthur Conan Doyle had envisioned it in his Sherlock Holmes …
Issue: November-December 2015