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Liberia’s President to Speak at Harvard Commencement
The University announced toda y that Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, will be the principal speaker during the afternoon exercises at Harvard's 360th Commencement, on May 26. “Over the course of her nearly 40 years in public service, …
An Amazon Artist
Collectors have long been smitten with artists’ better-than-photographic renderings of charismatic fauna (Audubon’s birds, for instance) and flora. Among them, happily, was Mildred Bliss, who with her husband, Robert, A.B. 1900, created what is now …
Issue: May-June 2020
Off the Shelf
Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq, by Bartle Bull ’93 (Atlantic Monthly Press, $35). It’s a safe bet that most Americans’ knowledge of Iraq doesn’t extend beyond Saddam Hussein. Bull, who has reported from and invested in the region, …
Issue: January-February 2025
"Justice"—On Air, in Books, Online
One of Harvard's most popular and celebrated courses, "Justice" (Moral Reasoning 22), taught by Bass professor of government Michael J. Sandel, takes its tutelage outside the University’s walls this autumn with a three-pronged media package: a public …
Football: Harvard 42, Princeton 7
With three minutes left to play in the first half last Saturday on a cool, dingy day at Harvard Stadium, Crimson fans were experiencing an unaccustomed emotion: anxiety. For the first time in the 2015 season, Harvard was in a battle, tied 7-7 with …
Professor Holdren to Be Nominated as White House Science Adviser
John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to be nominated as the White House science adviser by President-elect Barack Obama, according to several news reports. Holdren's website (which lists his current …
When Having Babies Beats Marriage
In February The New York Times ran a story under the provocative headline, “For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage.” The article suggested childbearing outside of marriage was the “new normal”—that recently released data signaled a …
Issue: July-August 2012
Winter Sports
The icewomen (30-3-1 overall, 15-0-1 ECAC) skated one of their best teams ever, and were ranked first in the nation for most of the year. They won the Ivy and regular-season ECAC titles, plus the Beanpot tournament. Two losses stung. In the ECAC …
Issue: May-June 2003
Touting Teaching
In a year of heightened University focus on learning and teaching , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is premiering “Harvard’s Great Teachers” (for which it has the address http://greatteachers.harvard.edu) a series of online videos featuring …
University Names Goldman Sachs Executive to New VP Post
The University this morning announced the creation of a new position, executive vice president, and the name of the person appointed to the job: Edward C. Forst ’82, currently global head of the investment management division for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and …
Advancing Leadership
During 2013, Michael J. Bush audited Professor Joseph P. Newhouse’s course on the economics of healthcare policy and worked with Richard Frank, Morris professor of healthcare policy , to better understand a specific social problem: how to cover the costs …
Issue: March-April 2014
Harvard’s 2017 Honorary-Degree Recipients, from A to Z
DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 366th Commencement, on May 25, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on six men and four women. Among them are: a physician and human-rights activist who has sheltered tens of thousands of refugees in war-torn …
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
Origin Stories
Primus is often captivated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ memorial minutes on the scholarly passions and personal crotchets of distinguished deceased professors. Those delivered on May 2 were intellectually mind-blowing: Pellegrino University …
Issue: July-August 2023
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