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Mark Zuckerberg to Speak at Harvard Commencement
The University announced today that Mark Zuckerberg ’06, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, will be the featured guest speaker at the afternoon exercises during Harvard’s 366 th Commencement, Thursday, May 25, in Tercentenary Theatre, following President …
Close to Par
Harvard’s endowment was valued at $36.4 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2014—$3.7 billion more (11.3 percent) than at the end of fiscal 2013 , and within a half-billion dollars of the peak value achieved in fiscal 2008, just before the …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Campaign Reaches $5 Billion
The University has announced that The Harvard Campaign had recorded $5 billion in gifts and pledges as of December 31: nearly 77 percent of the $6.5-billion goal announced in September 2013, when the public phase of fundraising began with $2.8 billion of …
Picturing Jazz
MASS MoCA ’s exhibition Black Stars: Writing in the Dark invites visitors to reflect on the experience of making—and listening to—music. The installation offers works by the pianist, composer, and visual artist Jason Moran, who also serves as artistic …
Issue: July-August 2024
Harvard Sundered
In a November Letter from Israel, chillingly titled “In the Cities of Killing” (adapted from Hayim Nahman Bailik’s 1904 poem about the Kishinev pogrom), New Yorker editor David Remnick, who has reported from the region for decades, quoted Sam Bahour, an …
Issue: January-February 2024
Jimmy Vesey Looks Back
More than anything else , he will miss his teammates, the guys he’s shared a rink and a bus and a bunk with for four years—and the coaches and trainers and everybody else behind the bench and on the ice (and piloting the Zamboni) at Bright-Landry Hockey …
Alumni Interviewers Honored
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard Corporation Elects Kenneth I. Chenault and Karen Gordon Mills
The University announced today that Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D. ’76, and Karen Gordon Mills ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, effective July 1. They succeed retiring members Robert D. …
The $2-Trillion War
War is messy, and putting a price tag on a war that stretches over years, with consequences lasting decades longer, is a staggering task. Yet in a democratic society whose citizens expect to know what they are paying for, someone has to do it. Linda …
Issue: May-June 2006
Off the Shelf
The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert J. Gordon ’62 (Princeton, $39.95). In a huge study of the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War, the Northwestern University economist, a leading scholar of productivity and growth, emerges with a very …
Issue: January-February 2016
Mike Schur on the Good Life
Mike Schur ’97 just loves philosophy. He favors Aristotle, but will also turn to utilitarianism, Kant, ubuntu, and existentialism. “I take a jambalaya approach,” he says. “I don’t know why anyone would decline any school of thought if it has something …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard Law and College Racial Concerns
Harvard Law School (HLS) affiliates entering Wasserstein Hall Thursday morning found a startling scene: portraits of every black professor in the school’s history defaced with black tape, an incident University police are investigating as a hate crime. …
Seven Harvardians Win MacArthur "Genius" Awards in 2018
Seven Harvard alumni have been named fellows by the MacArthur Foundation this year. The fellowship, commonly referred to as the “genius” award, recognizes recipients for their “ innovation and creativity and their potential to make important contributions …
Personal Excerpts: Alumni Write about Alzheimer’s
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (Paul Dry Books, 2011) by Rachel Hadas ’69 Rutgers University English professor Rachel Hadas recounts the medical interview during which her husband of more than 25 years, George Edwards, cannot …
Issue: September-October 2013
A Calming Presence
The moment was easy to miss. Halfway through the third period in an early January game that Harvard would soon put out of reach, Colgate defenseman Nicole Gass skated into the zone and, from the top of the right-hand faceoff circle, snapped a hard shot …
Issue: March-April 2016