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Behind the Scenes: As the Country Isolates, Are We All Alone?
A few days before lockdowns began in Boston last March, I was standing outside a South End restaurant with three friends. We had made reservations a week before, a special treat during the city’s “Restaurant Week,” and we looked forward to eating …
The Petitioners—Updated
Alongside candidates placed on the ballot for the Board of Overseers by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee ( see the slate announced January 12 ), interested alumni can seek nomination through a petition procedure. This year, at …
Addressing Climate Change
… the Paris Agreement requirement to set emission targets for 2025, 2030, and 2040, with reports at five-year intervals. …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: July-August 2020
Brevia
HR Head Manuel Cuevas-Trisán began his service as Harvard’s vice president for human resources on August 2. He succeeds Marilyn Hausammann—the first person appointed to the newly created position in 2004—who retired in May. Cuevas-Trisán had been vice …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Pay
HARVARD TODAY RELEASED its 2021 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2022 (July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Overseer and Elected Director 2023 Slates
T he Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from March 31 through …
Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—honoring Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, and retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective undergraduates. Glen Cheng ’93, of Hong …
Issue: November-December 2021
Purchasing Renewable Energy
The University announced today that in partnership with MIT, Mass General Brigham hospital, and a group of public and nonprofit organizations in Eastern Massachusetts, it would purchase the power produced by two large renewable energy projects: a 200 …
Harvard Kennedy School Dean Elmendorf to Step Down
Douglas W. Elmendorf , dean of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) since January 2016 , announced this morning that he would conclude his service at the end of this academic year, June 30, 2024. Claudine Gay, University president since July 1, has already …
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year 2005, show that grants (institutional, federal, and other) totaled $275 million in that year, and were …
Issue: March-April 2007
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 Fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s (RIAS) 2019-2020 cohort includes 55 fellows from 10 countries. The admission rate for the interdisciplinary research program was 3.7 percent, and the incoming class includes writers, artists, sociologists, …
The Unfinished Recovery
… to improve K-12 schooling, forthcoming in the March-April 2025 issue (online February 14). … 21454 … Post-pandemic …
Gifts and Endowments, 2005
The rich get richer, at least as measured by annual giving to Harvard’s schools, compared to their existing endowments, as shown in Managing Harvard’s Resources, published in March by the University’s alumni affairs and development office. Duringthe …
Issue: September-October 2006
A New Light on DNA Storage
… mutating on Earth for three and a half billion years. By 2025, accumulated global data is expected to reach 175 …
Issue: March-April 2021
A Medical School Gift for Translational Research
… project, expected to begin in 2023 and be completed in 2025, will join the wet- and dry-lab wings of the Life Lab. …