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A Dean’s Adieu
During a morning conversation on May 18, Claudine Gay reflected on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) priorities and progress during her service as dean since 2018: aims and accomplishments that can become somewhat overshadowed by the demands of …
Are Noncitizens’ Speech Rights Protected?
A Harvard professor who is in the U.S. on a green card testified in court this week that the Trump administration’s efforts to arrest and deport an international student pushed him to stop speaking out in support of Palestine because he fears reprisals. …
Philip Lovejoy to Step Down as Harvard Alumni Leader
Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since July 2014, today announced his retirement from the post at the end of this year, concluding a quarter-century of Harvard service. The news follows the most recent …
Great Expectations
Late in the evening of Friday, September 16, after nearly 53 minutes of indifferent play in its season opener against Merrimack , the Harvard football team—the school’s 148th—shucked off its rust, flexed its muscles, and showed why pundits in the Ivy …
Issue: November-December 2022
Behind the Scenes: Writing About COVID-19
Friday afternoon, February 21, 1:00 p.m. : a press release about the novel coronavirus arrives via email from the Medical School—embargoed for release Sunday at midnight, so I have 48 hours to put together a story before the news is released to the …
News Briefs
… (rising from $20/MTCDE in fiscal year 2023 to $50 in 2025) will be used to defray 10 percent of the investments …
Issue: January-February 2022
Closing the Gap
… for tutoring and after-school programs for the 2024-2025 school year. After the deadline, federal relief dollars …
Encouraging Harvard to Resist
This story, originally published on April 9, has been updated to include reactions to Harvard declining the federal government's demands. This spring , federal government actions have stoked fear on campuses nationwide. On March 7, U.S. President Donald …
The New Crew
Harvard Magazine welcomes Aden Barton ’24 and Isabella Cho ’24 to its editorial staff as the 2023-2024 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Starting in the November-December issue, they will alternate as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, …
Issue: September-October 2023
Recruiting for Economic Diversity
… to increase their enrollment of Pell Grant recipients. By 2025, the program aims “to attract, enroll, and graduate an …
Crimson Construction
… will be fully restored to its old-home-made-new by the fall 2025 term. “No one comes to Harvard to live in a … and bathroom. The renovation is scheduled to conclude in 2025. If it’s successful, passersby and returning …
Issue: September-October 2024
Paying a $1.4-Billion Repair Bill
… the renewal project’s projected conclusion in fiscal 2025. The loss of income of course continues thereafter, …
Issue: November-December 2016
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
… Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the … questions . The HAA nominating committee candidates for the 2025 ballot are the following, five to be elected Overseers …
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Cornell 28
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Playing on the road last weekend against an Ivy bottom-feeder, the Harvard football team bolted to a seemingly insurmountable lead, then frittered most of it away. In a result that hung in the balance until the …
2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’ s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers’ applications …
Issue: September-October 2005