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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 …
The Shape of Sound
During her junior year of college, Jessica Shand ’22 discovered topology—a branch of mathematics that studies how far shapes can stretch and morph before they lose their core properties. “I just thought it was so strange,” she says, “seeing these …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Dangers of Mirror Life
Synthetic biologists can alter the genes of microbes, plants, and animals to give them new abilities, with wide-ranging applications in medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing. But one advance in the field has raised special concern: that researchers …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard Art Museums To Require Vaccination or Negative COVID Test
Today the Harvard Art Museums announced a new public-safety policy, set to take effect September 28, which will require visitors to show proof of vaccination or documentation of a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter. (Already, visitors must wear …
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 Cambridge Scholars
Three members of the College class of 2024 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2024-25 academic year. (A fourth student and scholarship had not been named by press deadlines.) Gaurav (Dhruv) Goel, of Lowell …
Issue: July-August 2024
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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
Time To Stand Up
“Making her debut here, let’s welcome the incredible Catherine Yeo!” I shuffled to the front of the room, an illuminated open mic “stage” in what felt like the modern-day American dungeon: the dingy gray basement of a fast-food restaurant in downtown …
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
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
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
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 …
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 …