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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
Adam Falk and Natalie Diaz at Phi Beta Kappa
The orator and poet at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Adam Falk, Ph.D. ’91, and Natalie Diaz. They are scheduled to appear on Tuesday morning, May 23, …
Remembering John Corcoran ’84
On weekday afternoons , John Corcoran’s bike often disappeared from his Newton garage. For hours, he rode along the Charles River, heading from Newton into Boston as the little stream expanded into a broad basin. It was not until the sun began to set on …
Football 2022: Harvard 37-Penn 14
In 1895 the University of Pennsylvania dedicated Franklin Field. (Just the grounds; the edifice came later.) That same year (coincidentally) H.G. Wells began cranking out his science-fiction tales. The forward pass was still 11 years from legalization. …
Behind the Scenes: Caring for the Caregivers
When I was in seventh grade, my best friend’s father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. He was in his late 50s. Her mother had trained as a nurse, and although the two of them were divorced, they’d remained close, and when he got sick, she took …
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
Unbuttoned Up
… Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, until February 2, 2025, celebrates the artist—also known as Mr. Buttons, Count …
Issue: September-October 2024
The Changing of the (Financial) Guard
T he University announced today that Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93 , who founded and ran a large hedge fund, will succeed fellow Corporation member Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, a private-equity investor, as Harvard’s treasurer July 1. This …
Memorable Mentors
… at a hypothetical member of the Harvard College class of 2025. … 17876 … Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, …
Issue: November-December 2021
A Fitter FAS
With the pandemic’s worst effects in the past, Dean Claudine Gay painted an upbeat picture of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) prospects when she delivered her annual message on November 1. Her outlook was buttressed by reports on the …
Issue: January-February 2023
Larry Wilmore Named College Class Day Speaker
The Harvard College class of 2023 has chosen Emmy Award-winner Larry Wilmore to address graduating seniors at its Class Day celebration on the afternoon of May 24, the day before University’s 372 nd Commencement. “From his early days acting to his work …
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, …
A Nearly Normal First-Year Move-In
… housing. Given the influx in students in the Class of 2025 (after many members of the Class of 2024 deferred …
Faculty Honors, and a Farewell
During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 2, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) bid farewell: to President Lawrence S. Bacow; to FAS dean Claudine Gay, who will assume the University presidency upon Bacow’s retirement June 30; and …
Brevia
… freshman survey , slightly more than half of the class of 2025 respondents said they had a LinkedIn account. …
Issue: November-December 2021