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Harvard Previews Future Building Plans in Allston
… institutional master plan (IMP) by late 2024 or early 2025. IMPs cover only institutional growth. In Allston, …
Black Ink—and Red
As the pandemic spread suffering around the globe, it perversely improved the University’s finances: the $406-million operating surplus realized in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, was the largest to date. That result, disclosed in the annual …
Issue: January-February 2023
Short and Sweet
W hen Lawrence S. Bacow was elected the University’s twenty-ninth president in February 2018 , the Corporation—on which he had served since 2011—and the Board of Overseers were confident that they had chosen the right person to keep the lights on: an …
Issue: July-August 2023
Ledecky Fellowship
… and former fellows and to access their articles. 2024-2025 Serena Jampel ’25 Yasmeen Khan ’26 2023-2024 Aden …
Kevin Young Named 2024 Harvard Arts Medalist
The Office for the Arts at Harvard today announced that Kevin Young ’92 will receive the Harvard Arts Medal on April 24, beginning the annual ARTS FIRST festival . Young will be celebrated in a 5:00 p.m. ceremony at Lowell Lecture Hall, with Alan Garber, …
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Alexander Rehding’s interstellar reach
When I first arrived at Harvard Magazine , the other editors provided me with a packet of story ideas. They hoped to spare me from wandering confusedly around Harvard Yard begging freshmen and tourists for suggestions. Fortunately, the list was …
Saluting the 2023 Centennial Medalists
THE GRIFFIN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is …
News in Brief
… applicants to submit standardized test scores, as of fall 2025. Newsmakers Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, a …
Issue: September-October 2024
Larry Wilmore Named College Class Day Speaker
The Harvard College class of 2023 has chosen Emmy Award-winner Larry Wilmore to address graduating seniors at its Class Day celebration on the afternoon of May 24, the day before University’s 372 nd Commencement. “From his early days acting to his work …
President Garber’s Agenda
During a conversation in his Massachusetts Hall office on a remarkably balmy Halloween afternoon, President Alan M. Garber was expansive about his academic aspirations for the University he has led on an interim basis since last January , and as president …
Football 2021: Princeton 18, Harvard 16
Five overtimes were not enough. On Saturday at Princeton Stadium, the Harvard football team suffered its first defeat of the season, 18-16 to Princeton in the aforementioned five overtimes, a result that still was being litigated the next day but that we …
Football 2021: Harvard 24, Cornell 10
It was not a thing of beauty. At times it was downright ugly. But at afternoon’s end on Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team had preserved its unblemished record with a nerve-racking 24-10 victory over pesky Cornell. The Crimson, which …
Football 2022: Harvard 37-Penn 14
In 1895 the University of Pennsylvania dedicated Franklin Field. (Just the grounds; the edifice came later.) That same year (coincidentally) H.G. Wells began cranking out his science-fiction tales. The forward pass was still 11 years from legalization. …
Harvard Names Alan M. Garber President
Penny Pritzker , senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, announced today that physician and economist Alan M. Garber ’77, Ph.D. ’82, appointed interim president last January 2 following the resignation of Claudine Gay, has been made president and will …
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Named Class Day Speaker
The Harvard College Class of 2022 has selected Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, the first female and first person of color elected to be Boston’s mayor, to speak at the Class Day celebration on May 25, the day before Harvard’s 371 st Commencement . Wu has …