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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
Radcliffe Celebrates 25
When Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith became president of Radcliffe College in 1960, she sought to combat what she called “a national climate of unexpectation” surrounding women’s education. As part of that mission, she created the Radcliffe Institute for …
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 …
A New Contract for HUCTW
… percent in 2023, 3.8 percent in 2024, and 3.5 percent in 2025. Those percentages will vary a bit depending on salary, …
2021 Harvard Medalists
At its virtual annual meeting on June 4, the Harvard Alumni Association honored three alumni with Harvard Medals for their extraordinary service to the University. Walter K. Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, a committed leader and mentor, served on the …
Issue: July-August 2021
Football 2021: Harvard 44, Georgetown 9
It had been 665 days since Aidan Borguet scored a touchdown—four of them, in fact. But in the first quarter on Saturday at Georgetown’s Cooper Field, the Crimson’s sophomore running back picked up right where he had left off on November 23, 2019, during …
Faculty Voices, Round Two
On January 31, President Alan M. Garber announced the inaugural members of his University Faculty Advisory Council, a two-year experiment announced last November as a means of bringing faculty views to bear on Harvard-wide issues. The council will meet …
Behind the Scenes: The Power of Human Connection
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine—like me, a writer and reporter , and also like me a natural introvert—said something very true. People like us, he said, go into journalism for the writing , only to discover that it’s the reporting —the human …
Centennial Medalists 2015
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) 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 …
Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking
In a severely polarized country, Americans’ political mindset is increasingly shaped by “zero-sum” views of policy and society: the belief that gains achieved by one individual or group come at the expense of another. If the resources available are fixed …
News in Brief
Headliners The guest speaker during Harvard’s May 23 Commencement exercises will be Maria Ressa, who shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines. During the authoritarian administration of President …
Issue: May-June 2024
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
Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary
Suzanne Glassburn, whom President Alan M. Garber described in a statement today as “a deeply experienced and widely respected senior university administrator,” has been appointed vice president and Secretary of the University. Glassburn formerly served in …
Behind the Scenes: Ask a Harvard Professor Podcast
When I sat down to interview neuroscientists Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy for Harvard Magazine ’s podcast this fall, I was nervous . As a writer, I’ve been asking scholars about their research for a decade and a half now, and I knew …
Football 2022: Yale 19-Harvard 14
E arly in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Harvard’s Jonah Lipel booted the extra point following quarterback Charlie Dean’s touchdown pass to tight end Tyler Neville. For the first time—and unaccountably—the Crimson led, 14-13, over Yale in the 138th …