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Press Changes William P. Sisler Photograph by Stu Rosner William P. Sisler, director of Harvard University Press since 1990, will retire at the end of the academic year. His tenure saw the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas …
Issue: March-April 2017
Steve Jobs Biographer Is Harvard Overseer
The authorized biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, to be released October 24, is written by Walter Isaacson ’74, CEO of the Aspen Institute, the former managing editor of Time magazine, and a Harvard Overseer . After Jobs died October 5 of …
Fairfield Porter
In 1975, Fairfield Porter, A.B. 1928, accepted a commission for the Harvard Club of New York to paint former club president Alfred (Al) Gordon, A.B. 1923, M.B.A. ’25, whose portrait would join those of previous presidents lining the walls. Eschewing the …
Issue: September-October 2024
Jill Abramson ’76 Named Executive Editor of New York Times
Jill Abramson '76 has been named executive editor of the New York Times , the newspaper announced today—the first woman to hold the top editorial post. She has been managing editor since 2003—one of two executives responsible for overseeing the newsroom. …
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2018
During the Morning Exercises of the 367th Commencement, on May 24, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on a relatively small cohort, comprising three women and four men. They include four distinguished leaders in the arts, an area of particular …
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A WORK OF ART DECEIVES ITS AUDIENCE? The term “parafiction” refers to an artistic performance or presentation that depicts fiction as fact. This idea has particular relevance for our current post-truth moment, in which Americans find …
Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
On January 25, Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs Meghan O’Sullivan, director of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since last summer, spoke about the impact of the energy transition on …
Curiosities: A Fantasy Trip
During a fall jaunt through the Berkshires, follow a bread-crumb trail into the imagination at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge. “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration” (through October 31) features more than 130 flights into faraway …
Issue: September-October 2021
Time to Tax Carbon
Next year , representatives from nations around the world will meet in Paris to discuss a global climate-change agreement that would take effect in 2020. Central to those discussions will be setting a price on carbon and its equivalents—a figure that …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Magazine Scavenger Hunt Prize Rules
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A purchase will not improve chances of winning. OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHO ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AS OF THE DATE …
Sexual Violence in India’s Headlines
In recent years , news coverage of sexual violence in India has increased, but the Indian press’s coverage has serious flaws—including a tendency to ignore victims from underprivileged backgrounds and to print sensationalistic depictions of rape—according …
University People
Vice President’s Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will relinquish the position next April. Berman, who has lived in and worked from Italy during the summer months since her appointment in …
Issue: November-December 2005
Building Bridges in Allston
As ironworkers assembled the frame of the University’s science and engineering complex in the summer heat, bridge-building of an academic kind proceeded, too, as Harvard’s Business and Engineering and Applied Sciences schools (HBS and SEAS) anticipate …
Issue: September-October 2017
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Humanities Leaders Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt , acclaimed for his Shakespeare scholarship (see “ The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare ,” September-October 2004, page 54) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Lucretius’s De rerum natura (see …
Issue: May-June 2016
Harvard Reiterates Campus Rules
In another indication that University officials are anticipating campus tension and protest this fall and hoping to avoid a repeat of last spring’s pro-Palestine encampment in the Yard, executive vice president Meredith Weenick emailed a message to the …