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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
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
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 …
Growing Pains
The film Rent Free, which premiered last June at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens with a shot of a sunlit apartment: white walls and hardwood floors, eclectic artwork, green plants curling up a staircase. White sans-serif text overlaying the scene reads: …
Issue: January-February 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 …
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 …
Pallas Chou ’23, Senior English Address
Enzymes Pallas Chou ’23 Senior English Address I love enzymes. Tiny molecular machines, too small to be seen by the naked eye, they’re in each of our cells, performing important life functions like helping us breathe and allowing us to eat and digest …
“Unlikely Writer” Gawande to Speak at HMS Class Day
Atul Gawande —associate professor in the department of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital—will be the Class Day speaker …
Other Financial Updates
Harvard’s friends remained supportive during the fiscal year ended last June 30. Vice president for alumni affairs and development Tamara Elliott Rogers announced in September that donors had given $596 million, just $6 million shy of the fiscal 2009 …
Issue: November-December 2010
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
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
Landmark Bio Breaks Ground
Construction began today on a state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility in a 40,000-square-foot leased space at the Watertown Arsenal, a few miles west of Harvard Square, culminating a several-year process of developing a Boston-area research …
Mahadevan, Huybers, and Others Named MacArthur Fellows
Applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and climate scientist Peter Huybers have been named MacArthur Fellows. Mahadevan, who is Lola England de Valpine professor of applied mathematics, is popularly known for precisely explaining phenomena such …
The SIGnboard
The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 Shared Interest Groups; a full list appears at http://post.harvard.edu/harvard/ clubs/html/SIGdir.shtml . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this …
Issue: September-October 2009
Forum: Is Harvard Complacent?
Consider this irony: Harvard and other elite American research universities, so crucial to innovation in almost every area of our lives, find it almost impossible to innovate within their own operations and embedded assumptions. They regularly transform …
Issue: September-October 2021