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No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water
… Renaissance this summer … 88566 … Your Guide to Summer 2025 Along Boston Harbor … 1523 … 1505 … 8466 … 8472 … No …
Issue: July-August 2025
July-August 2024
The July-August 2024 issue of Harvard Magazine. … July-August 2024 … issue …
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
12,000 Harvard Alumni File Amicus Brief in Funding Freeze Lawsuit
A high-school English teacher in Utah. An apple grower in New Hampshire. A 96-year-old former Republican congressman from Ohio. Massachusetts governor Maura Healey ’92. Comedian Conan O’Brien ’85. These were among the 12,000 alumni who signed an amicus …
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 …
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
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
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
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. …
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
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: 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 …