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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 …
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
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Alexander Rehding’s interstellar reach
When I first arrived at Harvard Magazine , the other editors provided me with a packet of story ideas. They hoped to spare me from wandering confusedly around Harvard Yard begging freshmen and tourists for suggestions. Fortunately, the list was …
News in Brief
Provost Manning On August 15, less than two weeks after the Corporation removed “interim” from his title, President Alan M. Garber made the logical move, announcing that former Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning, who became interim provost in March, …
Issue: November-December 2024
Short and Sweet
W hen Lawrence S. Bacow was elected the University’s twenty-ninth president in February 2018 , the Corporation—on which he had served since 2011—and the Board of Overseers were confident that they had chosen the right person to keep the lights on: an …
Issue: July-August 2023
2022 HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received the Harvard Alumni Association’s HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University: Janet Nezhad Band ’83, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’90, of New York City, a three-time recipient of the Albert H. Gordon ’23 Award for her …
Issue: November-December 2022
Research on Hold
Hours after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in research funding at Harvard, scientists across the University received sudden stop-work orders—halting projects on radiation exposure, ALS diagnostics, and tuberculosis treatment. The notices came …
July-August 2024
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Honoris Causa
Seven men and three women received honorary degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, in the order below. Anthony S. Fauci. Director of the National Institute of Allergy …
Issue: July-August 2009
Black Ink—and Red
As the pandemic spread suffering around the globe, it perversely improved the University’s finances: the $406-million operating surplus realized in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, was the largest to date. That result, disclosed in the annual …
Issue: January-February 2023
Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt
… Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall ( Harvard, 2025 ), Loker professor of English Stephanie Burt gives … queer people fought back against government oppression. In 2025, when discrimination against queer and especially trans …
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 …
Football 2021: Harvard 49, Columbia 21
New York , New York, it’s a wonderful town. After two consecutive soul-crushing losses, to Princeton and Dartmouth respectively, the Harvard football team ventured to Manhattan on Saturday to face Columbia. The Crimson got a needed restorative, playing …
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. …
Football 2021: Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
Halloween weekend was an appropriate time for the Harvard football team to continue its two-season Danse Macabre of close and excruciating defeat. This time, at least, the result did not involve overtime or controversy. Thanks to a 25-yard field goal by …