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HBS Halts Hybrid Learning
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced that a rising number of coronavirus cases has forced it to pull back from hybrid (in-class and remote) learning for the rest of the semester. Although the Medical School has had its second- through fourth-year M.D. …
Asian-American Admissions Suit Proceeds to Discovery
A couple of hundred thousand applicants for admission to Harvard College are about to hear from the institution again—in an unexpected and possibly unwelcome way. Under court-directed discovery in the lawsuit filed in 2014 by the Project on Fair …
The Voter-Fraud Disinformation Campaign
How did mail-in voting, a practice that U.S. states have implemented for decades, become so polarized in a matter of months? A new report by a research team at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society argues that the myth that vote-by-mail …
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
When the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare health disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States, it appeared that a persistent public-health problem would finally get the increased attention it deserves. Population data from early in the …
Issue: May-June 2022
Brevia
Primate Denouement Harvard Medical School (HMS) plans to wind down operations of the New England Primate Research Center , in Southborough, Massachusetts. The school cited financial pressures; Carolyn Y. Johnson, of The Boston Globe (who earlier reported …
Issue: July-August 2013
Double Vision
Having experienced their own twenty-fifth reunion last year, twin brothers Mark and Steve O'Donnell ('76 and '76, respectively) offer these visions, transcribed while they murmured in a restless dream state on undersized beds expressly borrowed from a …
Issue: May-June 2002
Harvard Football’s 2019 Season Outlook
The 2019 Harvard football season—the school’s 146th—will begin in the same place the 1919 season ended: Southern California. (See Anniversaries , below.) One hundred years ago, Harvard was a postseason victor and was proclaimed national champion; this …
At Camp, a Community
As our car sped away from Logan Airport, into Boston and out along the Charles, my eyes widened as the cupolas of Harvard came into view. “Do I really go there?” I mused aloud. At that moment, I couldn’t have felt farther away from being a Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2011
Michael Pollan’s Crooked Writing Path
Whether he is writing a book on big farming and the way Americans think about food, or interviewing terminal cancer patients who have had life-altering experiences through hallucinogenic drugs, author Michael Pollan’s career as a writer has been anything …
Harvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Health
The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute announced the launch of a new LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence on June 4, in partnership with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Citing both the LGBTQ community’s growing size in the US and the …
“One Community, One Harvard”
Standing alone on a Nantucket beach during a spectacular sunrise, Harvard Alumni Association president John West, M.B.A. ’95, tilted his iPhone camera to share the stretch of golden sand and blue Atlantic Ocean with viewers of his Class Day speech to …
Issue: September-October 2020
Beyond the Budget
"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999. The annual Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, released …
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and chicken bones--mute castoffs--can say quite a lot about this aspect of a culture when interpreted by a …
Apply for a Fellowship
Harvard Magazine offers two fellowships to current undergraduates who are freshmen, sophomores, or juniors in Harvard College. LEDECKY FELLOWSHIPS THE BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, supported by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, …
Harvard Discloses Top Earners
The University’s annual tax filings covering the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, and the accompanying disclosures released today, include the earnings of the most highly compensated Harvard administrators and those at Harvard Management Company (HMC), …