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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
Honoris Causa
Three women and eight men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Charles Hard Townes. His Nobel Prize-winning research in quantum electronics gave rise to the maser and the laser. An …
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Hating Harvard Congratulations to the editors for featuring “ Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard ” (March-April, page 26), and congratulations to Derek Bok for his contribution to a much-needed public discussion. His thoughts are well balanced and are …
Issue: May-June 2024
New Look for Lavietes
Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion , built in the 1920s as an indoor-track center and converted to basketball use in 1982, is being extensively renovated and modestly expanded. Construction began in May, and as the fall term began, workers had installed new …
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
As the data from the COVID-19 pandemic begin to accumulate, a familiar and disturbing trend has emerged: the disproportionate toll on poorer Americans and communities of color. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, black Americans …
Taking a Page from Knopf
Since becoming director of Harvard University Press (HUP) in September 2017, George Andreou has begun tackling the biggest challenges facing academic publishing—the rise of online scholarly publishing, changed economics in an eBook era, reduced purchasing …
Issue: November-December 2018
George Daley Appointed Harvard Medical Dean
Pioneering stem-cell scientist George Q. Daley has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), effective January 1, 2017. He succeeds Jeffrey S. Flier, who concluded nine years of service on July 31; Watts professor of health care policy and …
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Scientists who study the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets have for the first time detected the fingerprint of a melting ice sheet, as it creates distinctive patterns of change to global sea levels. Newly released satellite data allowed …
Break Every Chain
Most American schoolchildren learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white section to a white man. Her refusal and ensuing arrest sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus …
Issue: January-February 2024
Harvard Men Edge Yale and Brown
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report When Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker arrived in Cambridge in 2007, he professed his excitement about making “history” by leading Harvard to its first Ivy League championship in men’s …
Harvard Defends Race-Conscious Admissions at the Supreme Court
Editor’s note. The magazine asked lawyer and legal analyst and journalist Lincoln Caplan, a contributing editor, to report on the presentation of the Students for Fair Admissions litigation before the Supreme Court on October 31, including both the day’s …
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2019
DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 368th Commencement, on May 30, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on five men and four women—the first cohort of honorands to receive their degrees from the University’s new, twenty-ninth president, Lawrence …
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 …
Alumni Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard Club or Shared Interest Group, as well as to clubs and SIGs that have organized exceptional programming. Awards were presented to the following recipients …
Issue: March-April 2010
No Longer an “Ugly Step-Child”
On a bright Friday morning in September, a jackhammer bore down on the Mill Street pavement. All through the House, not a Winthrop student was stirring, insulated from the din by the 1,039 new double - paned windows. With their move into the renovated …