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House Renewal Update
… effect can now be calculated as follows, through fiscal 2025 (the period used in arriving at the figure): Apply a … period, yielding approximately $26 million through fiscal 2025. Several variables make this gross calculation inexact. … that would actually be distributed in fiscal 2017 through 2025, reflecting estimated appreciation in the underlying …
Issue: September-October 2016
Ken Griffin’s Naming Gift for the Graduate School
Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel LLC, the multibillion-dollar hedge-fund and financial-services company, has donated $300 million to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In an April 11 letter emailed to the …
Research on Hold
Hours after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in research funding at Harvard, scientists across the University received sudden stop-work orders—halting projects on radiation exposure, ALS diagnostics, and tuberculosis treatment. The notices came …
Harvard Releases Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
Harvard released its long-awaited reports on campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias on April 29, along with an apology for the tense campus environment of the past two years. “The 2023-24 academic year was disappointing and painful,” President Alan M. …
Issue: July-August 2025
Crimson Campaigners
On the evening of November 5, as Harvard students gather to watch election results, some undergraduates will be more nervous than others. For them, the numbers will shape their communities’ and country’s political future—and will also determine whether …
Issue: September-October 2024
Saluting the 2022 Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is the …
Penny Pritzker’s Perspectives
During a telephone conversation Monday afternoon, Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, talked about the governing board’s effort to engage more with the University community, its nascent work on the scheduled spring 2026 search for …
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the archive
When I started working on the September-October feature about Harvard Library’s Judaica Division—and the 86-year-old archivist who has led it for 60 years—I didn’t quite know what to expect. The University has such a vast and expanding universe of …
Football 2021: Harvard 23, Penn 7
In its final home game of 2021, the Harvard football team employed the formula that has served it well all season, riding a rock-ribbed rush defense, the rampaging running of back Aaron Shampklin, and the leg of placekicker Jonah Lipel to a workmanlike …
A Harvard “As Humane as It Is Humbling”: Morning Prayers
… first-year convocation talks (for the classes of 2024 and 2025) in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. Matthew Ichihashi … Your Portion” Speaking for the first time to the class of 2025, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana emphasized the …
Judge Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Bar International Students from Harvard
A few miles from a Commencement ceremony that celebrated Harvard’s global ties, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to bar the University from enrolling international students. The legal dispute stems from a …
Behind the Scenes: Journalism in an Internet Era
I want to tell you how support from generous donors like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. It is no secret that the rise of the Internet has siphoned advertising from newspapers, leaving …
Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt
… Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall ( Harvard, 2025 ), Loker professor of English Stephanie Burt gives … queer people fought back against government oppression. In 2025, when discrimination against queer and especially trans …
Focus on Finances
… number of units owned (from gifts). But note: for fiscal 2025, a smaller 2.5 percent increase is authorized. Net …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2025
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the housing crisis
Managing editor Jonathan Shaw takes a deeper look into the factors driving unaffordability. News coverage of the astronomically high cost of housing tends to emphasize short-term factors such as sudden shifts in interest rates, or pandemic-precipitated …