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A Deluge of Deans Several significant leadership appointments were announced toward the end of the spring semester. Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. ’03, professor of international studies at Stanford, his academic home for two decades, will become Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2024
Endowment Value Declines 29.5% as Investment Return Is Negative 27.3%
Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported today that the University’s endowment was valued at $26.0 billion as of June 30—29.5 percent less than the record $36.9 billion reported for the prior fiscal year. That result reflects a negative 27.3 percent …
A Shakespearean Romance
Although I entered Harvard’s graduate program in English in 1974 believing I’d focus my attention on Romantic poetry, I soon gravitated to Widener X, the oddly signified office of Cabot professor of English literature G. Blakemore Evans in the main …
Learning to the HILT
The Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT), unveiled in October, was inaugurated on Friday, February 3, with an all-day, invitation-only symposium principally featuring, and aimed at, faculty members, at the Northwest Building on Oxford …
Harvard's New-Normal Financial Results
The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 and detailed in the annual financial report released today, in many ways mirrors the outcome of the prior year : Harvard again operated modestly in the black, following a couple of years of modest …
Coping with Alzheimer’s
In the summer of 2006 Harvard professor emerita Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz ’44, RI ’69—long revered for her work on the history of public health and for promoting women at Harvard (she was among the earliest full female professors and the first female …
Issue: September-October 2013
The End of the Ivy League?
With one minute left in Harvard’s last men’s basketball game of the 2023-2024 season, sophomore Chisom Okpara drove toward the basket, leaped, and released the ball. It clanked off the rim back into his hands. On the second attempt, he made the shot, his …
Issue: November-December 2024
Parks for Tomorrow
In 2009 , Bas Smets walked across an old industrial plaza in Arles, France. Entirely concrete, the space posed a problem. The area was being transformed into a large art complex, but in the intense summer sun, the ground reflected the heat, doubly baking …
Issue: July-August 2024
News in Brief
President Alan M. Garber After a dozen years as provost, and seven months as interim president (he was appointed January 2), Alan M. Garber became Harvard’s thirty-first president on August 2, when the governing boards announced their decision. The …
Issue: September-October 2024
Investigating Harvard’s E-mail Investigations
(Updated 7.23.13: Read an assessment of the report detailing Harvard’s e-mail investigations here.) During the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting last April 2 —at which dean Michael D. Smith and President Drew Faust revealed that further …
Football 2023: Harvard 34-Brown 31
On Friday night at Harvard Stadium, nearly 16,000 spectators witnessed a real rock-and-roller between Harvard and Brown. The game featured big plays, spectacular catches, a stirring goal-line stand and a cerebral move to clinch the outcome. When it was …
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
In 1971, when Howard Stein was professor of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, the program accepted a young playwright, Christopher Durang ’71. Stein burst into the office of Robert Brustein, the school’s dean, with the news. “We took in a kid from …
Issue: March-April 2009
Cambridge 02138
The techniques and machinery described by Harbour Fraser Hodder in "Bloodless Revolution" (November-December 2000, page 36) will revolutionize many current surgical procedures, and in the near future we will have gentler and safer methods of dealing with …
Cambridge 02138
Understanding Addictions While I was pleased to see Harvard Magazine address this vast and critical issue (“Deep Cravings,” by Craig Lambert, March-April, page 60), I was disturbed by the article’s potentially misleading tone. It is interesting to some …
A Presidency’s End
Claudine Gay’s truncated 185-day term as Harvard’s thirtieth president came undone with astonishing speed from October 7—when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, setting this and other campuses aboil—through her resignation on January 2 (see …
Issue: March-April 2024