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Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin
How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the birthplace of the world's most successful software company? Are we sure we're not talking about MIT? At the dedication …
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
As the committee consisting of members from the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers pursues the search for the successor to President Drew Faust , faculty and staff advisory committees were unveiled today. The members of the faculty advisory …
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
Masha Gessen seemed to become famous in the United States for the essay “ Autocracy: Rules for Survival ,” published two days after the 2016 presidential election in The New York Review of Books. The Russian-American journalist and author is best known …
Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20
We’re beginning to sense a pattern. On Saturday at the Stadium, in its final home game of the season, the Harvard football team experienced its fourth consecutive agonizing loss to an Ivy League rival. This time the tormentor was Penn, which scored on a …
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. …
Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
Imagine a business that creates a perfectly energy-efficient environment by adjusting ventilation rates in its workplace. On paper, the outcome would seem overwhelmingly positive: fewer greenhouse-gas emissions to the environment and lowered costs to the …
Issue: May-June 2017
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee Awards honor both individuals who provide exemplary service to those groups, and groups that have themselves organized exceptional programming. This year’s awards were presented to the following recipients at the HAA board …
Issue: March-April 2015
The Book on Houghton
I n connection with the inaugural exhibition celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Houghton Library , Heather G. Cole, assistant curator of modern books and manuscripts, and John H. Overholt, curator of the Hyde collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson and …
Issue: March-April 2017
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
Welcome Home Each March, on the Thursday before spring break, freshmen learn their upperclass housing assignments. To celebrate, most Houses initiate their newcomers with T-shirts, like these from last year's festivities. Washington-Bound Among the …
Issue: March-April 2009
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 …
For Santiago’s Poor, Housing with Dignity
Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in marker: Se venden helados —ice cream for sale. Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this …
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 …
Approaching the Arts Anew
Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force involving several Harvard schools will explore the role of …
Issue: January-February 2008
A Space “to Convene, to Learn, and to Celebrate”
Despite rainy weather and the mounting academic demands of the fall semester, students, staff, and faculty trekked across the river and the HBS campus for a symposium on the state of democracy at Harvard Business School (HBS). The event took place inside …