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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
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 …
Harvard, Ivies to Join Big Ten
… Big Ten announced that they would merge, effective in the 2025-26 academic year, and that the conference will … Fools Harvard Magazine … “Superconference” play begins in 2025-26 and will feature relegation. … Harvard, Ivies to …
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 …
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
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
News Briefs
… second phase would be built, subject to approval, between 2025 and 2028. Despite the pandemic-related emptying-out of …
Issue: March-April 2021
Taking Climate Action at Harvard
… how might the U.S. Congress pass a form of carbon tax in 2025? Those were among the high-priority, and admittedly … in the future. In the next session, “Carbon Pricing in 2025?” the discussion among U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse … during the Trump presidency are set to expire at the end of 2025, which could lead to a broad discussion of climate and …
The Talk, 2023
“Get Out of Your Own Way” Imparting life lessons to the seniors in his final baccalaureate address, on May 23, President Lawrence S. Bacow drew upon his own experiences in academia. I learned that a career is only knowable in retrospect.…I came here …
Issue: July-August 2023
We Were Students Once...
...And Young. That’s the starting point of The Nancy Poems (Cirque Press, 2024), by John Morgan ’65. First, the backstory. Morgan took Robert Lowell’s poetry seminar in both his junior and senior years, and then headed from Cambridge to the Iowa Writers’ …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard Fencers at the 2024 Paris Olympics
To a young mind, lightsabers are mesmerizing. They buzz in the hands of Jedi masters, glowing in fluorescent colors. As a child, Mitchell Saron ’24 says he “was just obsessed with swords,” constantly begging his sister and parents to duel him with plastic …
Issue: July-August 2024
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 …
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 …
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 …
The 2021 Honorands
Four women and three men (including last year’s guest speaker, Martin Baron) received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 27. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands as video highlights of their careers streamed, and …
Issue: July-August 2021