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Commencement Confetti
Crimson 1–News Office 0 The Harvard Gazette went online long ago, but Harvard Public Affairs & Communications has continued publishing a souvenir edition to distribute each Commencement morning: a record of the year, and something for parents and guests …
Issue: July-August 2022
Alumni Interviewer Honors
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards —the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, as well—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective …
Issue: November-December 2020
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, has been shadowed and shaped by the Holocaust. His mother, Ruth Wertheim, survived Auschwitz and, as he has related, arrived in the United States on the second Liberty Ship that brought …
Centennial Medalists 2015 full citations
GSAS Centennial Medalist Citations Wade Davis, A.B. ’75, Ph.D. ’86, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology It is a rare holder of a Ph.D. who can claim that his dissertation was the subject of a major motion picture. Fewer still whose dissertation concerned …
Football 2022: Harvard 28-Dartmouth 13
Last Saturday in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Harvard football team achieved what classics concentrators might characterize as a Pyrrhic victory. In the 28-13 win over Dartmouth, senior Kym Wimberly, the Ivy League’s leading receiver, was carried off the …
Defeating the Darkness
Editor’s note: Brian Palmer ’86, Ph.D. ’00, a social anthropologist and scholar of religion at Uppsala University in Sweden, submitted this piece of his family’s history. In the 1950s, Ina (John) Bonnell was the librarian of Harvard’s burgeoning Russian …
Issue: March-April 2025
Continuity and Change
H ow do you know that the University’s 372 nd Commencement, conducted this morning, represented a complete return to post-pandemic normalcy? For one thing, conversation before the Big Day focused on whether the weather would be fair for the singing of …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
Fixing a “World on Fire”
… use 100 percent renewable energy in its U.S. operations by 2025. “When we set this goal,” said Siemen, “we didn’t quite …
Harvard’s Financial Outlook in an Unprecedented Semester
Just 10 weeks ago , Harvard deans learned that the Corporation would decrease distributions from the endowment, rather than increasing them , in light of the pandemic-induced recession and reduced investment values. The projected decline, 2 percent, was …
Behind the Scenes: Group Mentality
Staff writer Max Krupnick shares his insights into what led him to professor of psychology Mina Cikara’s research on group behavior. A few days after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, I sat in my friend’s living room. We talked about our …
Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association
S arah C. Karmon, who has been deputy executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since 2018, will become executive director and associate vice president of alumni affairs and development, effective in January. She succeeds Philip W. …
Five Questions with Professor Peter Der Manuelian
Bell professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian has been teaching and researching at Harvard since 2010, when he became the University’s first full-time Egyptologist since 1942 (read more in our 2011 Portrait here ). He also serves as the director of the …
Celebrating the Classes of ’20 and ’21
T he University today announced that members of the classes of 2020 and 2021 , who received their Harvard degrees off campus in virtual conferral ceremonies during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, will be invited back to campus on May 29, 2022, …
The 40 Percent Solution
Following an academic year in which campus was hurriedly emptied over spring recess in response to the coronavirus, an oddly reconfigured community will reassemble at Harvard for the fall 2020 term. The College announced on July 6 that only 40 percent of …
Issue: September-October 2020
Brevia
… 2,100 to 2,200 for the year 2024—is now 2,000 to 2,200 for 2025. There is no change in full-time equivalents, but the …
Issue: May-June 2021