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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, …
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Issue: January-February 2025
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. …
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
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 …
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 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 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
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 …
Memorable Mentors
… at a hypothetical member of the Harvard College class of 2025. … 17876 … Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, …
Issue: November-December 2021
Saluting the 2023 Centennial Medalists
THE GRIFFIN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 …
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 …
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, …
Football 2021: Princeton 18, Harvard 16
Five overtimes were not enough. On Saturday at Princeton Stadium, the Harvard football team suffered its first defeat of the season, 18-16 to Princeton in the aforementioned five overtimes, a result that still was being litigated the next day but that we …
Brevia
… freshman survey , slightly more than half of the class of 2025 respondents said they had a LinkedIn account. …
Issue: November-December 2021