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Understanding AI Vulnerabilities
… data become more important to mitigate these risks. As of 2025, businesses have embraced APIs more than ever, weaving …
A Focus on the Future
Harvard’s annual sustainability report, released October 4, details the University’s efforts to prepare for two fast-approaching goals: to be fossil-fuel neutral by 2026, and fossil-fuel free by 2050. Already, less beef is being consumed in Harvard dining …
Behind the Scenes: The art of the profile
We write a lot of profiles at Harvard Magazine . And with good reason, I think: so much of the story of a university like this one is expressed in the lives and work of its people—faculty, alumni, staff, and students who are scientists, scholars, …
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
James J. Husson Appointed Head of Development
James J . “Jim” Husson has been appointed vice president for alumni affairs and development, the University’s senior fundraising official, effective April 1. He succeeds Brian K. Lee, who came to the position in 2018 and will remain on duty through the …
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
“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
Harvard Admits 8.7 Percent of Undergraduate Early Applicants
Harvard College announced this evening that 692 of 7,921 early-action applicants were admitted to the class of 2028. This 8.7 percent acceptance rate compares to 7.5 percent in 2022 and 7.9 percent in 2021 . The number of early applicants is down …
Harvard Cancelled Affinity Celebrations. Students Held Them Anyway.
“There’s no class I would rather be addressing than you all,” said journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the 1619 Project, to the hundreds of students and families gathered in a conference room at the Boston Marriott in …
Harvard Medical School Master’s Graduates Encouraged to Confront Misinformation
… Harvard Medical School’s 2025 master’s graduates are entering their professions …
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 …
Harvard College Reinstitutes Mandatory Testing
… for applicants, beginning with students applying for fall 2025 admission (the class of 2029). Until today’s decision, …
Thor Reimann ’25, Undergraduate English Address: This World is not Conclusion
… tells you. Because this world is not conclusion . Class of 2025, it is commencement.’ … A poem from the speaker’s …
International Student Ban Casts a Shadow on Harvard Commencement
… On the first day of activities for Harvard’s 2025 Commencement ceremonies, the steps of Widener Library … a cheer erupted from the crowd. As Harvard’s Class of 2025 graduates, uncertainty still looms over many of their …
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 …