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Heads of Houses Lakshminarayanan “Maha” Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan Photograph courtesy of Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean D. Kelly and senior lecturer on philosophy Cheryl Chen have been appointed …
Issue: July-August 2017
Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow to Step Down
Martha Minow, who became dean of Harvard Law School in 2009 , announced today that she would step down at the end of the academic year. Her message to the community emphasizd her plan to return to “the work of teaching and scholarship, and to more robust …
Studying Zika
To understand the outbreak of a disease like Zika, and ultimately to fight it, researchers must work on multiple levels. There are questions of molecules and chemical processes: how does the virus infect a cell, and what components provoke an immune …
What Happens to Harvard’s Workers?
Update, March 29, 2020: Harvard announced Friday that it would continue to provide pay and benefits to its direct employees, including those who work part-time, as well as to contract workers, through May 28. “We applaud Harvard for doing the right …
Numbers Game
Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum , debuting this coming fall semester, a final piece of the puzzle remains. Alongside three divisional distribution …
Play Ball
Baseball Harvard (21-20-1 overall) finished the Ivy season with the league’s best record, 14-6, winning the tough Red Rolfe division by one game over Dartmouth. Gehrig division winner Princeton brought an 11-9 record (and 1-7 mark against Rolfe opponents) …
Issue: July-August 2006
Pete Seeger Dies at 94
Pete Seeger ’40, who dropped out of Harvard in the late 1930s to pursue a lifelong career as a singer and political activist, died on Monday at the age of 94. An iconic figure in folk music, Seeger as an undergraduate joined the tenor banjo society and …
The Modern World Reconceived
Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries , Saltonstall research professor of history Charles Maier’s new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? They are networks: …
Issue: May-June 2023
Back on Top
As so often happens, The Game came down to the end. This time for Harvard it was a bitter one. On a blustery day at Yale Bowl, the Crimson had come from behind to take an 18-17 fourth-quarter lead, then saw Yale go back ahead 23-18. Now Harvard had …
Issue: January-February 2024
“What Happened to the Dream?”
Rolling back abortion rights, ending affirmative action, and threatening democratic processes: sometimes, says former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 , she feels like “forward progress in the world has stopped yet again.” On Wednesday …
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Her Honor, Honored The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, returns to campus to receive the Radcliffe Medal on Radcliffe Day, May 29. The ceremony will be preceded by a panel on the Roberts Supreme …
Issue: March-April 2015
Football: Harvard 31-Dartmouth 27
On a weekend during which we turned the clock back, the Dartmouth football team desperately attempted to turn it back exactly five years, to November 2, 2019. At Harvard Stadium on that benighted Saturday, the Big Green successfully employed a Hail Mary …
Balanced Budget, Benefits Battle
Following two years of modest deficits, Harvard closed its books on fiscal year 2014, which ended last June 30, some $2.7 million in the black: operating revenue increased 4.8 percent to $4.409 billion and operating expenses rose 3.9 percent to $4.406 …
Issue: January-February 2015
How the Ivy Tournaments Began
The original decision to create post-season basketball tournaments in the Ivy League was hard fought, and decades in the making. The first documented clamorings date to at least 1995, when a news report discussed interest in the possibility from Yale’s …
Harvard Disburses $1 Million for Climate Change Research
The Climate Change Solutions Fund has awarded $1 million in grants to multidisciplinary research programs across five different schools at Harvard. Launched by President Drew Faust in 2014 with alumni support, the fund aims to foster development of …