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Getting His Reps in
During Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s first year in art school, he arrived at the sculpture lab one weekend to find it locked. This was a problem: he had a project due the following Tuesday. “So, I just worked in the hallway that entire weekend,” he says. “I …
Issue: September-October 2023
Harvard Campaign Totals $9.62 Billion
The value of Harvard’s brand name has now been established: $9.62 billion. That is the sum raised during The Harvard Campaign, the University announced this morning. From the $2.8 billion of gifts and pledges received as of September 21, 2013, when …
Faculty Tensions II: Battling over Benefits
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 4, a rare standing-room-only crowd of professors raised objections to two recent University actions they associated with the central administration. The first, concerning research that …
“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
On Monday morning, March 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as spring recess ended but classes resumed with their students dispersed around the globe, exiled from campus by the coronavirus pandemic . Before the …
Football: Harvard 28-Merrimack 21
I f you were a Harvard fan among the 10,946 attending the 2022 season opener Friday night, you would have been forgiven had you shuffled disconsolately out of the Stadium with seven or so minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and the lifeless Crimson …
“No Longer Eligible to Work at Harvard”
As of October 15, 97 percent of on-campus employees were vaccinated. By December 8, in compliance with the Biden administration’s executive order of September 9, directing that employees of federal contractors be fully vaccinated, Harvard is aiming for …
Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History
Before the Harvard football team opened its 2021 season—its 147th— on September 18 against Georgetown with a 44-9 victory, the Crimson’s most decorated returnee, Jon Sot ’22, manned a position not generally in the spotlight during this era of high-flying …
Issue: November-December 2021
Hats of Their Own
Years ago, “Happy Committee” member Nancy Sinsabaugh ’76, M.B.A. ’78, reported for Commencement Day duty at 6:15 a.m . While her male colleagues—in their top hats—entered Tercentenary Theatre “without even showing their tickets,” she recalls, the guards …
Issue: May-June 2013
Harvard Professor Carla Martin on the Cocoa Crisis
Why have chocolate prices surged since before Valentine's Day, hitting an all time high around Easter? Some analysts have predicted that cocoa may reach highs of $10,000 a ton in this historic period of inflation, growing in value at a rate faster than …
Facebook’s Failures
In 2019, when Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz began asking Facebook for information about the inner workings of its complex recommendation system, which pushes personalized content into users’ feeds—and is central to the platform’s immense …
Alice Hamilton
When Alice Hamilton arrived at Harvard in 1919, the University had never admitted a woman to the faculty. Not everyone was happy she was there. Her male colleagues congratulated her with gritted smiles and asked her to confirm that she would not use the …
Issue: May-June 2025
Hillary Clinton to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the Radcliffe Medal during the Radcliffe Day luncheon on May 25. Another former secretary of state—Madeleine Albright, the 2001 Radcliffe Medalist—will deliver a personal tribute, followed by a …
Engineering Bioengineering
As Harvard pursues a broad program of bioengineering research and teaching, one element—based on deciphering life forms and processes, and making novel uses of the discoveries—has made a major advance. On October 7, the University announced that Hansjörg …
Issue: January-February 2009
Advancing Leadership
During 2013, Michael J. Bush audited Professor Joseph P. Newhouse’s course on the economics of healthcare policy and worked with Richard Frank, Morris professor of healthcare policy , to better understand a specific social problem: how to cover the costs …
Issue: March-April 2014
Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
Katherine Bradford’s color-saturated works often feature bold, fluid forms: swimmers and superheroes, or human bodies lodged within an amorphous frame of time and space. One recent painting, Mother’s Lap, offers softened geometric figures; one is …
Issue: September-October 2021