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“Let Us Be Courageous Together”
On the eve of her installation as the thirtieth president, the Harvard Gazette asked Claudine Gay about the most significant possibilities she saw before the University she now leads. Alluding to her remarks last December 15 , when her election was …
Issue: November-December 2023
HMS Names Barbara McNeil Acting Dean
Barbara J. McNeil, Watts professor of health care policy and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has been appointed acting dean of the faculty of medicine beginning August 1, Harvard president Drew Faust and provost Alan Garber …
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 …
Learning How to Disagree
In the weeks following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Tarek Masoud, Ford Foundation professor of democracy and governance, convened a series of panels at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the history and future of the Israel-Palestine …
The Irresistible Allison Feaster
When the clock ran out on the Boston Celtics’ first game against the Brooklyn Nets in last season’s NBA playoffs—a chaotic, glorious, preposterous win that would help propel the team all the way to June and the finals and a matchup with the mighty Golden …
Issue: November-December 2022
Curricular Conundrums
During the past decade, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has labored mightily and at length to construct a workable general-education component for undergraduates’ course of study. At present, Gen Ed comprises eight courses intended to lift young …
Issue: March-April 2016
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 …
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
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gregory Kristof , of Scarsdale, New York, and Kirkland House, a philosophy concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholar …
Issue: July-August 2015
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
Harvard Reveals Healthcare Costs
In the wake of faculty members’ sharp objections to Harvard’s imposition of coinsurance and deductibles on nonunion employees’ health insurance , announced last September, President Drew Faust promised to provide data on the University’s healthcare …
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 …
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 …
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
Conquest of the Air
Orville Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand at Kitty Hawk's Kill Devil Hills. The Wright brothers got their biplane in the air three more times on December 17, 1903, eventually …
Issue: May-June 2003