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The Endowment and the Environment: Year Three
Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s endowment, released its third annual climate report February 9. This series of reports began in 2021, a year after Harvard announced a “net-zero” target for carbon emissions in endowment …
Conferring and Confirming
Like the rest of the world, Harvard was ready to move past the pandemic this spring—but, Janus-like, kept peering back, too. The University planned a full-dress 371st Commencement extravaganza for the class of 2022 on May 26, and a similar “Commencement …
Issue: July-August 2022
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
COMMENCEMENT WEEK includes addresses by President Lawrence S. Bacow and actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks. For details and updates on event speakers, visit harvardmagazine.com/commencement . * * * Monday, May 22 Affinity Celebration honoring First …
Issue: May-June 2023
Brevia
Associate Justice Jackson As this issue went to press, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, J.D. ’96, was awaiting the U.S. Senate vote on confirming her appointment to the Supreme Court, succeeding Stephen G. Breyer, LL. B. ’64 (profiled in “A Workable Democracy,” …
Issue: May-June 2022
Doctors for Change
… be used to build a nuclear bomb. That’s all to say that, in 2025, the anti-nuclear movement is as vital as ever.” The …
Penny Pritzker’s Perspectives
During a telephone conversation Monday afternoon, Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, talked about the governing board’s effort to engage more with the University community, its nascent work on the scheduled spring 2026 search for …
Behind the Scenes: Scholars' Differing Perspectives
Often, the hardest part about writing an article is knowing where to start . That difficulty emerges a few times in the process. First, who are the best interview subjects? When it’s time to write, how do you begin? Sometimes those answers are simple. …
Sister Acts and Cyanotypes
On a Zoom call from her basement studio in early May, New York-based painter Julia Rooney ’11 shows me a part of a project she’s finishing—a series of camera-less photographic prints called cyanotypes. Developed in the mid-1800s, the cyanotype process …
Issue: July-August 2025
Katori Hall Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Playwright Katori Hall , ART ’05, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama on Friday for The Hot Wing King , set in her hometown of Memphis. It follows a black gay couple and their extended family as they prepare recipes for competition in the city’s …
Focus on Finances
… number of units owned (from gifts). But note: for fiscal 2025, a smaller 2.5 percent increase is authorized. Net …
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Issue: January-February 2025
Remembering John Corcoran ’84
On weekday afternoons , John Corcoran’s bike often disappeared from his Newton garage. For hours, he rode along the Charles River, heading from Newton into Boston as the little stream expanded into a broad basin. It was not until the sun began to set on …
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the housing crisis
Managing editor Jonathan Shaw takes a deeper look into the factors driving unaffordability. News coverage of the astronomically high cost of housing tends to emphasize short-term factors such as sudden shifts in interest rates, or pandemic-precipitated …
Convocation 2023: The New Crew
This year’s Convocation, conducted on Monday, a summery, humid Labor Day afternoon, of course welcomed new students: the 1,650 or so members of the College class of 2027 (a return to a normal, pre-pandemic-sized first-year Crimson cohort). But they were …
Behind the Scenes: Caring for the Caregivers
Associate editor Lydialyle Gibson examines the role of the “Invisible Second Patient.” When I was in seventh grade, my best friend’s father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. He was in his late 50s. Her mother had trained as a nurse, and …
News in Brief
… University conference center) are scheduled to open in late 2025 or early 2026. The photograph (taken from above …
Issue: September-October 2023