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A New Face of American Evangelicalism
Here's how Walter Kim, Ph.D. ’07, tells the short version of his parents’ migration. After the Korean War, his father escaped communist southern China by crossing the Taedong River hidden inside a barrel. He got to Seoul, where he met and married a young …
Issue: July-August 2023
Harvard Reiterates Campus Rules
In another indication that University officials are anticipating campus tension and protest this fall and hoping to avoid a repeat of last spring’s pro-Palestine encampment in the Yard, executive vice president Meredith Weenick emailed a message to the …
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer. For updates, visit www.harvardmagazine.com or www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu . Commencement …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Pandemic’s “Perfect and Terrible Storm”
Many viruses are known to be seasonal, but as COVID-19 cases in late October reached a record high in the United States, even epidemiologists who have been warning for months that the pandemic will worsen with the approach of Northern hemisphere winter …
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Annual Compensation
The University today released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2016 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017— Harvard’s fiscal year 2017 ). The headline figure, in the accompanying data on the compensation paid …
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A Note to Our Readers This issue of your magazine was laid out on March 16—the day after undergraduates able to leave by the College’s Sunday deadline had departed; the day most University staff members began working remotely; and two days before scholars …
Issue: May-June 2020
Princeton Preps
Prep schooled. The best training to become a Harvard dean? A Princeton undergraduate education. Or so this evidence, published in the November 7, 2018, issue of our peer magazine, Princeton Alumni Weekly , strongly suggests. Upstaging John Harvard (and, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Assessing Gender and Racial Equality Today
“I sometimes feel that I’m Alice in Wonderland,” said Margaret Marshall , M.Ed. ’69, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, during an online panel discussion late last week about the progress—and retreat—of American gender and …
Going Global, Gradually
The mid October announcement of Harvard Global Institute (HGI) and a “University-wide effort…to create a globalization strategy” elicited both a sense of promise and some puzzlement, perhaps in equal measure. The University news release observed that …
Radcliffe Institute Dean Appointed
President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a Harvard faculty member since 1986, to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS). Grosz has been serving as interim dean since July …
Doctoral Director
Allan M. Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), on January 1. A historian of science, Brandt holds a joint appointment as Kass professor of the history of medicine at Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2008
Office for Faculty Development and Diversity Reports on Faculty Composition, New Family Supports for Harvard Staff
The office, created in 2005 after the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering issued their reports , has published the first detailed data comparing the proportion of women and minority faculty members at each Harvard school …
Academia’s Absence from Homelessness
Harvard ’s Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH) is a rarity in the academic world—the first of its kind based at a school of public health, and one of only a handful of similar research centers at universities around the country. Almost all of them …
Alumni News
Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize two seniors who have made unique …
Issue: November-December 2002
Taking a Page from Knopf
Since becoming director of Harvard University Press (HUP) in September 2017, George Andreou has begun tackling the biggest challenges facing academic publishing—the rise of online scholarly publishing, changed economics in an eBook era, reduced purchasing …
Issue: November-December 2018