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Harvard and MIT to Sell edX for $800 Million
Harvard, MIT, and edX announced today that edX, the two institutions’ 2012 joint venture into online education, would be sold to leading educational technology company 2U for $800 million. 2U, a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ, with revenues …
Theater and “Treehouse” in Allston
Harvard has unveiled its plans for two projects in Allston: a performing arts center at 175 North Harvard St. that will house the American Repertory Theater, currently operating in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-owned Loeb Drama Center at 60 Brattle St. …
Issue: March-April 2023
Nancy Coleman Appointed Dean of Continuing Education
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced that Nancy Coleman, currently associate provost and director of strategic growth initiatives at Wellesley College, will become dean of the Division of Continuing Education (DCE, the …
Brevia
Interim College Dean Gray professor of systematic botany Donald H. Pfister was appointed interim dean of Harvard College in early July, succeeding Evelynn M. Hammonds, whose service concluded at the end of June. Pfister has been dean of Harvard Summer …
Issue: September-October 2013
Ginsburg Discusses Justice and Advocacy at Radcliffe Day Celebration
When associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, enrolled at Harvard Law School in the mid 1950s, she was one of just nine women in her class. Only a handful of women had served as federal judges in the nation by …
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 …
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
Between Harvard and St. Louis
On the day of a summer 2019 car-wash fundraiser for the R.C. Striders, a junior track team based in St. Louis, almost everyone from the 20-person squad spent more than five hours in the sweltering sun. They’d qualified for the Junior Olympics and needed …
Issue: May-June 2021
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession
Matthew Cappucci ’19 has never exactly fit in, and at a bingo hall 40 minutes east of Washington, D.C., it is no different. He is so much younger than his adversaries that a nearby grandmother feels compelled before each game to tell him which bingo sheet …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard Launches Science and Engineering Startup Program
Harvard’s already impressive ability to transform breakthroughs made in University labs into commercial products that could benefit society, especially in the biomedical realm, took another step forward today with the announcement of a new initiative that …
Honoris Causa
Six men and four women received honorary degrees at Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew Faust read the citations, concluding with the recipient’s name and degree. For fuller …
Issue: July-August 2015
Job Offers
Job Offers Several College programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning and working opportunities, contact the offices listed below. The Radcliffe Externships program …
Issue: November-December 2004
Summer in the City
Make way for poults. Visitors to Harvard Yard—and these days, there are throngs of them—often wish to capture an iconic photo: Johnston Gate; the Widener steps; John Harvard’s gleaming toe (about which, see more below). But a surprising number, from other …
Issue: September-October 2019
Bioentrepreneurship
The University’s encouragement of entrepreneurial endeavors now is three-legged: on November 3, the student-focused Harvard Innovation Lab (2011) and alumni-oriented Harvard Launch Lab (2014) were joined along Western Avenue by the 15,000-square-foot …
Issue: January-February 2017
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
During her first week of teaching at Harvard, the flutist Claire Chase was arrested while blocking traffic on Massachusetts Avenue—part of a protest last September prompted by the Trump administration’s announcement that it would end the Deferred Action …
Issue: May-June 2018