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New Vice President for Harvard Library
Amid continuing leadership changes at the Harvard Library during a period of major reorganization, Provost Alan Garber announced on May 20 that Sarah Thomas, who currently directs the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, will be shifting her office …
A London Fellowship for Urban Design
This past Tuesday , a crowd gathered at Wimbledon House, the home that esteemed British architect Richard Rogers built for his parents in Wimbledon, London, to celebrate the inauguration of the Richard Rogers Fellowship in partnership with Harvard’s …
Kathleen McCartney Appointed Smith College President
Kathleen McCartney, who became acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) in 2005 and dean in 2006, has been named president of Smith College, effective July 1 . During her tenure, she led the creation of a new doctor of education …
Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28
Harvard will guarantee pay and benefits to staff members whose work has been idled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dining and custodial workers, beyond its previously set date of June 28, executive vice president Katie Lapp announced in an email …
Doug McMillon’s Business School address
Hello, everyone. I am deeply honored to be asked to speak with you today, the graduates of Harvard Business School. I'm really excited for you. Congratulations on what you've accomplished. You should be full of hope and aspirations. I'm personally very …
Poise, in Spite of Everything
“You have to get the eyes right,” says portrait artist Nina Skov Jensen ’25. “You can mess up a lot of other things and it won’t matter, but the eyes have to be right.” That was one of the first lessons Jensen absorbed when she began teaching herself to …
Issue: May-June 2024
Blindspot: A Novel
Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky, friends since graduate school, didn’t plan to write a book. Their project, set in 1760s Boston, was supposed to be a sketch, a playful spoof of two genres: the picaresque, with its rogue hero exposing the hypocrisy around …
Issue: November-December 2008
Bumps in the Road
For the fourth time in the 15-year reign of head coach Tim Murphy, the football team entered the Ivy League lists as defending champions. The 2007 squad—like those of 1997, 2001, and 2004—had gone unbeaten in Ivy play, finishing with a 37-6 demolition of …
Issue: November-December 2008
Alumni Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs [Shared Interest Groups] Committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club or SIG, and recognize clubs and SIGs that have organized exceptional programming. Awards were to be presented to the …
Issue: March-April 2012
Penny Pritzker Elected Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow
Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has been elected senior fellow, succeeding William F. Lee ’72, effective this July 1. She will be the first woman to serve in the role, leading the University’s fiduciary governing board. …
When Children Fall Ill
At first, Blyth Lord, Ed.M. ’94, took every opportunity to tell her own story. It felt right, and healing, to honor the life of her daughter Cameron, who had died of a rare genetic disease at two years old. In 2013, when Lord began developing a nonprofit …
Issue: January-February 2023
Ashton Carter Named Deputy Secretary of Defense
The White House has nominated Ashton B. Carter, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, as the next deputy secretary of defense, reports the Boston Globe . The Obama administration noted that Carter’s nomination indicates the importance the White House places …
“Cut Missal Up…”
W hen a colleague chanced upon a stray medieval manuscript page in the Harvard Theatre Collection in 2018, then-Houghton Library curator William P. Stoneman knew whom to call: Peter Kidd, a medieval-art expert. Kidd’s detective work identified the page as …
Issue: March-April 2020
Personal History
Adams University professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. ’53, LL.D. ’99, remains a giant among early-American historians, and among the ranks of Harvard University citizens. Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades (W.W. Norton, $28.95) …
Issue: March-April 2020
“A Step Up from the Usual Beautiful”
Cliff Amero has led tours of the Essex River estuary for almost 30 years. The unique coastline, just north of Gloucester, with its snaking Great Marsh inlets, sand bars, and wild islands “is always changing,” he says, “moving with the tides, the wind, and …
Issue: September-October 2020