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Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow to Step Down
Martha Minow, who became dean of Harvard Law School in 2009 , announced today that she would step down at the end of the academic year. Her message to the community emphasizd her plan to return to “the work of teaching and scholarship, and to more robust …
A Cultural Escape
Cape Cod summons the quintessential summer vacation—sun, sand, and seafood—but also offers historical and cultural attractions that can be especially savored during the less-crowded shoulder seasons. Among these is Highfield Hall, a restored 1878 mansion …
Issue: May-June 2021
Putting the “New” in House Renewal
When students vacate Winthrop House after Commencement 2016, they will make way for something new in the program of undergraduate residences: not just stem-to-stern renovation, but significant fresh construction, in the form of a five-story addition to …
Issue: May-June 2015
Ways to Support Your Well-Being in the New Year
The gifts are tucked away, the wine bottles have been corked, and you’re ready to start fresh for the new year — likely with some resolutions in mind. Whether your clean slate involves financial, emotional, or physical well-being, there are plenty of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43
For Yale , this one makes up for ’68. Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game at the Yale Bowl was an instant classic, so spectacular and epic from start to finish that it even overshadowed—arguably—an onfield halftime protest that delayed the action for the better …
Play Ball
Baseball Harvard (21-20-1 overall) finished the Ivy season with the league’s best record, 14-6, winning the tough Red Rolfe division by one game over Dartmouth. Gehrig division winner Princeton brought an 11-9 record (and 1-7 mark against Rolfe opponents) …
Issue: July-August 2006
Amy Poehler Named Woman of the Year
Parks and Recreation star and Boston-area native Amy Poehler will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2015 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and hilarious actress whose brand of comedy fits so well with the Pudding’s own tradition of satire …
Break Every Chain
Most American schoolchildren learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white section to a white man. Her refusal and ensuing arrest sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus …
Issue: January-February 2024
War's Other Consequences
“I wanted people to think about the homeland differently when it comes to the costs of war,” said Makeda Best . “We think everything is happening abroad, but it’s happening here too. It’s always been happening here.” Best, the Harvard Art Museums’ …
Mentorship
Your donation to Harvard Magazine enables us to mentor a new generation of writers. We’ve had the privilege of working with some remarkable students over the years—many of whom remain professionally engaged in writing and editing at publications such …
The World’s Costliest Health Care
L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, Harvard Magazine asked several faculty experts to write about issues that would be shaped by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably …
Issue: May-June 2020
Milman Parry
Milman Parry saw the Homeric epics through new eyes, heard them through new ears. The Iliad and the Odyssey , he said, were the work of generations of illiterate poets who composed orally; their poetry took wing in the moment, were reduced to print only …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Three members of the College class of 2024 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2024-25 academic year. (A fourth student and scholarship had not been named by press deadlines.) Gaurav (Dhruv) Goel, of Lowell …
Issue: July-August 2024
Mapping the Ganges
In the summer of 2005, Anthony Acciavatti, M.Arch. ’09, and his local driver were in rural, north-central India, not far from the sacred city of Varanasi. They had stopped to watch the “soupy, brown water” of the Ganges River gush out of the mammoth, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Faculty Meeting, Part 2
The meeting continued the faculty meeting of February 15, with open discussion of the University's administration. Speakers' prepared texts are provided here, or, where they spoke without a text or did not provide one, a summary account …