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India's Dropping Wind-Power Potential
… to become the most populous country in the world by 2025. By 2040, energy consumption is projected to …
Harvard Settles Antisemitism Lawsuits
This story has been updated below with details of Harvard's rollout of its new antisemitism definition. At a December 5, 2023 hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Rep. Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-NY) asked Harvard President Claudine …
Baby, Maybe?
In the summer of 2024, I spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to have a baby. I was living in my parents’ house in Spring, Texas. I was back home because I had struggled to secure a summer internship in media or journalism, the …
Issue: September-October 2025
Trump Administration Expands Harvard Student Visa Vetting
The U.S. State Department has ordered its consulates and embassies to adopt stricter vetting procedures for visa applicants seeking to travel to Harvard for any reason, according to a cable sent late Thursday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The …
Five Questions with JoAnn Manson
… and Stanford, California—will be terminated in September 2025. The initiative’s clinical coordinating center in …
On Readers’ Behalf
We are pleased to recognize four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2021, and to confer a $1,000 honorarium on each. (Staff members are not eligible for consideration for these prizes.) Hanna Rose Shell …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
Harvard College announced today that 2,056 students have been offered admission to the class of 2021 ( including the 938 accepted last December under the early-action program). The College received a record 39,506 applications this year, up just 1 percent …
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
… not be invited back to Adams House when it re-opens in 2025 after renovations. Faculty Deans Becerra and Keshavjee … congregate,” it read in part, and later explained that in 2025, “the space where the Press is located will revert to …
The Baccalaureate, and a Multitude of Distinct Graduations 2021
E ven in a pandemic-driven, online year, Harvard graduation ceremonies have proliferated. Although the main University event this week is the “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021” program substituting for the full-dress Morning Exercises on Thursday, four …
Harvard Football: 2023 Season Preview
After the customary 42-week interlude, Harvard football kicks off its 149th season on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Stadium when the Crimson faces the University of St. Thomas from St. Paul, Minnesota . The game will be telecast on ESPN+ and broadcast on …
Harvard Slavery Descendants Program: What’s Next?
A month after the University laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program (HSRP), which for more than a year had been working to identify people enslaved by University affiliates and trace their descendants, Vice Provost for Special …
Harvard’s Standoff: The History
There has been nothing in Harvard’s history like the current confrontation between the University and the Trump administration. But Harvard students and faculty have often come into conflict with the federal government over its policies, in disputes that …
Issue: July-August 2025
Harvard Squared PDF Archives
2023 March-April 2023 January-February 2023 2022 November-December 2022 September-October 2022 July-August 2022 May-June 2022 March-April 2022 January-February 2022 2021 November-December 2021 September-October 2021 July-August 2021 May-June 2021 Harvard2 …
Admissions Evolving
The College announced March 28 that 1,937 of 54,008 applicants (3.6 percent) were admitted to the class of 2028. The comparable figures a year earlier were 1,942 admission offers to 56,937 applicants (a 3.4 percent rate). The newest applicant cohort was …
Issue: May-June 2024
Commencement Celebrity: Tom Hanks to Address Graduates
A ctor-filmmaker Tom Hanks will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s Commencement this May 25, the University announced today. Known for comedic roles in Splash , Big , and A League of Their Own , he won Academy Awards for best actor for his …