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2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners
The Harvard Alumni Association named Stephany Zhivotovsky ’23, of Cabot House, and Adam Aleksic ’23, of Kirkland House, as this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars—accompanied by a $2,000 unrestricted honorarium—for their thoughtful leadership …
Issue: November-December 2022
Making Schools Work
I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane rehearsed the pitch he’d memorized to persuade the world’s richest man to fund a radical new approach to education reform. Ordinarily, Kane’s speech is slow and deliberate, …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Art Museums Will Reopen This Fall
The Harvard Art Museums have announced plans to reopen to the public this fall. The first visitors to return will be students: the galleries and courtyard will be open to them on Class Day, September 1, before allowing in the wider public beginning …
Harvard’s 2015 Honorary-degree Recipients
During the morning exercises of the 364th Commencement, on May 28, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on six men and four women. Among them are: a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine , and a preeminent art historian —the daughter of another …
Endowment Expectations
Following the near-record 33.6 percent investment return on endowment assets in fiscal year 2021 , and the inevitable adjustment in fiscal 2022—when financial markets took account of the pandemic stimulus and rising inflation, and the endowment yielded a …
Behind the Scenes: Chance reunion between old chums
Former deputy editor Craig Lambert reflects on his history with Stephen Bergman and what it’s like to reunite after 39 years. Writing my March-April feature profile “ Diagnosis by Fiction ,” on novelist Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was an enjoyable …
Saluting the 2020 Centennial Medalists
The 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 the …
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
Three Harvardians have been named MacArthur fellows . Known as the “genius” grant, the fellowship recognizes individuals across disciplines who have “shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for …
Provocative Politician
In 2021 , when Lee Junseok ’07 was elected chairman of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP)—becoming, at 36, the youngest-ever leader of a major party in the country—some likened his ascent to that of another controversial figure on the …
Issue: November-December 2024
President Bacow Plans to Step Down
Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, announced on June 8 that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that began in 2018, when he succeeded Drew Gilpin Faust. In a characteristically plainspoken …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard Appoints Ritu Kalra as New CFO
R itu Kalra has been appointed Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, filling an important vacancy created by the planned retirement of Thomas J. Hollister on June 30. The announcement was made this afternoon by Meredith …
Spring Remains Remote
Nearly one month into autumn, Harvard’s principal professional schools today began to announce that spring teaching and learning will for the most part continue online, following the model that has been in place during the current semester. Plans for the …
Saluting the 2024 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 studies. It is the …
Financial Fitness
Harvard’s financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, released in October, depict University operations fully back to normal after the pandemic. With on-campus enrollment at a still-elevated level as students returned from leaves or …
Issue: January-February 2024
“Anyone Can Be an Activist”
Across the political spectrum, Harvard alumni concerned about the state of U.S. democracy, their apprehensions later intensified by the events of January 6, are doing what they can to advocate, educate, and mobilize voters ahead of the next …