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Stand-Up to Simmer Down
On a campus where student organizations vie for superlatives—from the nation’s “oldest continuously published student newspaper” to its “oldest collegiate social club”—the improvisational comedy troupe On Thin Ice claims a more idiosyncratic honor. It’s …
Issue: July-August 2025
Harvard College Reinstitutes Mandatory Testing
… for applicants, beginning with students applying for fall 2025 admission (the class of 2029). Until today’s decision, …
Harvard Admits 8.7 Percent of Undergraduate Early Applicants
Harvard College announced this evening that 692 of 7,921 early-action applicants were admitted to the class of 2028. This 8.7 percent acceptance rate compares to 7.5 percent in 2022 and 7.9 percent in 2021 . The number of early applicants is down …
Surgeon Atul Gawande Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
… PDF file ). Harvard’s Alumni Day will take place on June 6, 2025. The full University announcement can be found here . … …
Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
… deferred admission last fall join the full-sized class of 2025 enrolling on schedule . They will be joined by …
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
“We Salute You, and We Thank You”
Following Thursday’s in-person, new-look Commencement for the class of 2022 , the University this morning put on a unique, second “Commencement Celebration” for a huge crowd of 2020 and 2021 graduates (deprived of normal graduations during the COVID-19 …
John S. Rosenberg , Nancy Walecki , Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
Behind the Scenes: The art of the profile
We write a lot of profiles at Harvard Magazine . And with good reason, I think: so much of the story of a university like this one is expressed in the lives and work of its people—faculty, alumni, staff, and students who are scientists, scholars, …
New Fellows
This fall the magazine welcomes seniors Che Applewhaite and Meena Venkataramanan to its editorial staff as the 2020-2021 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next …
Issue: September-October 2020
Civil Rights Attorney Sherrilyn Ifill to Receive 2022 Radcliffe Medal
Sherrilyn Ifill , president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 27, 2022, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced on Friday. The lawyer and scholar will join Madeleine …
Behind the Scenes: Writing About Walter Johnson and St. Louis
In August 2014, a few months after I graduated from Harvard College , I came home to St. Louis to reports of mass protests erupting in Ferguson, the suburb just north of the city that would soon become world-famous. African-American teenager Michael …
News in Brief
Commencement—and Other Headliners— Actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s Commencement exercises on the morning of May 25, succeeding a series of government and other leaders in recent years; for details see …
Issue: May-June 2023
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
… Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the … questions . The HAA nominating committee candidates for the 2025 ballot are the following, five to be elected Overseers …
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 …
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 …