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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
Class Day Speakers Announced
On Monday afternoon , First Class Marshall Fez Zafar ’24 announced in a group chat with Harvard seniors this year’s two Class Day speakers: dean of admissions and financial aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 and Currier House security guard Bill Oliverio. The …
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 …
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 …
Football 2021: Harvard 24, Cornell 10
It was not a thing of beauty. At times it was downright ugly. But at afternoon’s end on Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team had preserved its unblemished record with a nerve-racking 24-10 victory over pesky Cornell. The Crimson, which …
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 …
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Named Class Day Speaker
The Harvard College Class of 2022 has selected Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, the first female and first person of color elected to be Boston’s mayor, to speak at the Class Day celebration on May 25, the day before Harvard’s 371 st Commencement . Wu has …
Kevin Young Named 2024 Harvard Arts Medalist
The Office for the Arts at Harvard today announced that Kevin Young ’92 will receive the Harvard Arts Medal on April 24, beginning the annual ARTS FIRST festival . Young will be celebrated in a 5:00 p.m. ceremony at Lowell Lecture Hall, with Alan Garber, …
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: 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 …
Addressing Climate Change
… the Paris Agreement requirement to set emission targets for 2025, 2030, and 2040, with reports at five-year intervals. …
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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
News in Brief
… elected president of the Board of Overseers for the 2024-2025 academic year, and Tyler Jacks ’83, a cancer geneticist … scores for applicants, beginning in the fall 2024-spring 2025 admission season for entry into the class of 2029. The … of the Radcliffe Institute’s 52 fellows in the 2024-2025 academic year (its twenty-fifth anniversary class as an …
Issue: July-August 2024
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year 2005, show that grants (institutional, federal, and other) totaled $275 million in that year, and were …
Issue: March-April 2007
Ledecky Fellowship
… and former fellows and to access their articles. 2024-2025 Serena Jampel ’25 Yasmeen Khan ’26 2023-2024 Aden …