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Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
For “persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post’ s David Fahrenthold ’00 has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting. Colson Whitehead ’91 was honored with …
The Purpose of Harvard Law School
This past year, Harvard Law School (HLS) experienced an intensely public moral crisis. After the portraits of African-American professors were found defaced in Wasserstein Hall, a racial justice movement calling itself Reclaim Harvard Law School formed in …
The “Scandalous Mansion”
Built between 1899 and 1902, the Ayer Mansion on Commonwealth Avenue is a rare surviving residence designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. It was an outlier, commissioned by outliers. The textile magnate and marketing savant Frederick Ayer was a self-made man …
Issue: January-February 2017
Update: Harvard versus Yale
A 10-0 defeat of Yale, meted out under arctic conditions at the Stadium on November 22, gave Harvard a 9-1 football season and an Ivy League co-championship. Harvard shares the Ivy laurels with Brown, which won a 24-22 squeaker in the teams' first league …
Gathering Strings
When she was six years old, a harp was the most beautiful thing Elisabeth Remy Johnson had ever encountered. That year, her mother took her to a solo concert near their home on Cape Cod, where young Remy Johnson sat in the front row, motionless and …
Issue: January-February 2025
Diabetes: A Looming Epidemic—and Solutions
In 1985 in the United States, there were only eight states where more than 10 percent of adults were obese. By 2001, not a single state had prevalence below 15 percent. The map below shows how obesity has increased in the United States from 1985 to 2007. …
Issue: November-December 2008
Making a Case against the Courts
How will Americans know that their Supreme Court is truly dedicated to interpreting the Constitution as the Founding Fathers would wish? Attorney, activist, and author Phyllis Schlafly, A.M. ’45, offered some guidelines while discussing “The Culture War …
Issue: January-February 2008
Philadelphia's Story
Philadelphia stands as the perfect prototype of the broken urban school system that federal regulators were trying to fix. For decades the school district, beset by powerful unions, rampant cronyism, and bureaucratic sclerosis, has shown little capacity …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Crimson Triumphant
The past quarter-century was an era of prosperity for Harvard athletics. Varsity teams won 184 Ivy League championships in 17 different sports, while 11 teams captured national titles in crew, fencing, hockey, lacrosse, sailing, and squash. More than 30 …
Issue: September-October 2011
Making Space
Just as I was sitting down to write this column before the Thanksgiving break, amidst grim reports of a rapidly spreading virus, welcome news about the work of a recent graduate crossed my desk. TIME had named Upsolve—a nonprofit co-founded by Rohan …
Issue: January-February 2021
Business School’s Guiding Light
Jay O. Light , an expert in finance and investment management, was named dean of Harvard Business School (HBS)—the ninth since its founding in 1908—by President Lawrence H. Summers on April 24. Light, D.B.A. ’70, had been acting dean since August 1, 2005, …
Issue: July-August 2006
The Senior Alumni
The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present at Commencement were 94-year-old Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, who was accompanied by her son, Clifford Richmond ’75, and 97-year-old Robert F. Rothschild ’39, of New York City, who …
Issue: July-August 2015
Shielding the Goal
“It’s such a crazy position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team since her freshman year. “All summer [of 2005] I worked with goalkeepers at a soccer camp, and they are the craziest collection of athletes you …
Issue: September-October 2005
Brevia
Press Person George Andreou ’87, who joined Alfred A. Knopf in 1990—rising to vice president and senior editor—has been appointed director of Harvard University Press, beginning in September. He succeeds William P. Sisler, who led the press from 1990 …
Issue: September-October 2017
Harvard Global Institute Grant Supports Climate-Change Research in China
The newly formed Harvard Global Institute (HGI) has announced that its first grant will go to China 2030/2050 (based at the Harvard Center Shanghai; see below)—$3.75 million for an interdisciplinary research project focused on climate change, …