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The President and Fellows of Harvard College --the seven-member Corporation, the University’s senior governing board--has begun a review of its operations. As reported ( “The Corporation Changes,” March-April, page 52), the matters under examination …
Issue: May-June 2010
A Treasure Way Up High
The ceiling of Sanders Theatre soars so high, it makes you look up, says Raymond Traietti, assistant director of Memorial Hall. That’s when the grandest antique chandelier in all of Boston—a 1,040-pound, glowing dewdrop of nineteenth-century iron and …
Issue: January-February 2016
Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
In this interview, Matthew Bunn , the Schlesinger professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the evolution of United States nuclear policy. Bunn has been a leader of the Project on …
Sven Beckert Wins Bancroft Prize in History
Bell professor of history Sven Beckert has won a 2015 Bancroft Prize in history for his book Empire of Cotton: A Global History , the trustees of Columbia University announced this afternoon. His fellow winner is Greg Grandin, a professor at New York …
Developing a Diverse Faculty
“Harvard is at the beginning of a very long journey,” writes senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds in the first annual report issued by her office (published June 13; see the new “Faculty Affairs” website, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Building a New Information Civilization
Most people can be intimately known, near instantly, in ways unimaginable just a few years ago—through the large-scale collection of data from wireless devices they keep close. “These are devices that we think of as extensions of our powers and …
Harvard Reports on Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein Gifts
President Lawrence S. Bacow reported to the community this afternoon that the gifts to Harvard from Jeffrey Epstein were in line with those he disclosed last September : $9.1 million between 1998 and 2008, with no gifts received following Epstein’s …
At Last, a Sweep
On Friday evening , an unusual sight greeted fans at Lavietes Pavilion: the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball national championship trophy was on display in the lobby, thanks to a promotion that is rotating the prize to one school in every conference in advance …
Football Star Justice Shelton-Mosley to Transfer
Call him Commodore Shelton-Mosley. Taking advantage of major college football’s so-called “graduate-transfer rule,” Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19, who in three-plus seasons at Harvard became one of the school’s greatest kick returners and wide receivers, …
Building Community
Behind every discussion in late October’s wide-ranging conference at Harvard on the future of research universities—design and architecture, digital infrastructure and online learning, student curricula and faculty collaborations, partnerships with …
The State of the Pandemic
For all the havoc and death caused by the coronavirus during the past 20 months, enough time has passed to reflect on a few significant issues. How will humanity cope with the rest of this pandemic—and prepare to respond better to the inevitable next one? …
Issue: September-October 2021
College Admits 13.4 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
The College has admitted 13.4 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2023, down slightly from 14.5 percent admitted from the early-action pool last year. Of the 6,958 students who applied through the program, 935 were admitted. ( Last year , …
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Harvard and the Middle East War Robert Soto and Robert Park ( Letters, May-June, pages 8 and 69) are both very concerned that Harvard doesn’t care about the Gazan victims of the war that Hamas began on October 7. Soto wants “equal condemnation” of what he …
Issue: July-August 2024
Beyond the SAT
Nicholas Lemann ’76, dean of the Columbia Journalism School from 2003 to 2013 ( “The Press Professor,” September-October 2005, page 78), has, among other works, written the definitive history of standardized testing, T he Big Test: The Secret History of …
Issue: September-October 2024
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(Coach) Murphy Time Harvard Magazine does a grave disservice glorifying football with a cover story on Tim Murphy ( “Murphy Time,” November-December 2015, page 35). With overwhelming medical evidence that football causes chronic brain damage, how can …
Issue: January-February 2016