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Honoring Our Contributors
We take great pleasure in saluting four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2016, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Jane Kamensky Jane Kamensky joins scholarly prowess—professor of history and …
Issue: January-February 2017
Professorial Permutations
During the past quarter-century , Harvard’s faculty has become more diverse and has refocused its intellectual energies. The University’s professoriate includes more women and minorities, and is larger, more international, and stronger in science, …
Issue: September-October 2011
2019 HAA Award Recipients
Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards, for their outstanding service to the University, during the alumni association’s fall meeting. Salvo Arena, LL.M. ’00, of New York City, has served in various roles since 2004, including as president of the …
Issue: November-December 2019
Pins for Women
Tiny pins with their delicate metal fasteners still intact, some more than 100 years old, read “Votes for Women” and “I March for Full Suffrage” in faded letters. Some sit in miniature carrying cases, signifying, perhaps, that they once meant a great deal …
Issue: November-December 2016
Upending U.S. Politics
Among the many ways U.S. politics has been transformed in the past decade, the rise of nationwide citizens’ activist groups devoted to resisting a president—the Tea Party on the right, and Indivisible on the left—has been especially remarkable. These …
Issue: March-April 2020
HIID Denouement
The federal lawsuit concerning the conduct of the Harvard Institute for International Development’s advisory work on the privatization of Russia’s economy has been expensively settled, without any admissions of institutional or personal liability, as …
Issue: March-April 2006
Court Sparks
Brogan Berry The point guard —the #1 position—is the quarterback of a basketball team. She’s the floor leader, starting the attack and shouting defensive signals. Much of the team’s success or failure hinges on her performance—and luckily, the Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2011
Bringing Pride and Plans to Life
In Uganda , there is a hierarchy of houses. The poorest live in huts made of dung. Mud is a step up; brick with mud walls, one more. Next comes brick-and-mortar; stucco over the brick says someone has really made it. The roof makes a statement too: it can …
Yesterday's News
1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard degree. 1925 The College establishes a board of faculty advisers to counsel freshmen. 1930 Six hundred …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cast Your Ballot
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should arrive in the mail by April 15 and must be received back in Cambridge by noon on June 3 to be counted. …
Issue: March-April 2005
Steven Spielberg Named Harvard’s 2016 Commencement Speaker
Academy Award-winning director , screenwriter, and producer Steven Spielberg will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s 365th Commencement on Thursday, May 26, the University announced today. Calling Spielberg “a genre-defying filmmaker whose unparalleled …
The (New) Calendar Canon
The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an 18-1 vote, has found a way to coordinate all the schools' diverse academic schedules—almost. (The text is …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Language of Movement
I n the finale of the Netflix series Living with Yourself, Paul Rudd’s character gets into a fight with himself—or, rather, with a clone of himself. That new-and-improved version has spent the previous seven and a half episodes tormenting the original, a …
Issue: January-February 2020
Grade Deflation
Jawboning works. That's the import of a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from Benedict H. Gross, dean of undergraduate education. He reports that even before FAS-enacted changes in College grading and the awarding of academic honors take …
Issue: May-June 2003
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, has been named dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), effective July 1, 2019. She succeeds Mohsen Mostafavi, who has served as dean for the past 11 years, and will be the …