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Lewis on Leadership; Faust’s Farewell
Before the two main speeches of the afternoon exercises—officially the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)—HAA president Susan Morris Novick ’85 told the newly minted members in the class of 2018: “It is my pleasure to welcome you home …
Networked
If a campaign volunteer shows up at your door, urging you to vote in an upcoming election, you are 10 percent more likely to go to the polls--and others in your household are 6 percent more likely to vote. When you try to recall an unfamiliar word, the …
Issue: May-June 2010
$10 Million for a More Inclusive Faculty
The Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, set up by President Drew Faust in 2016, released its final report this morning, with a broad, University-wide set of recommendations to ensure that Harvard “integrate[s] all members of the University into …
Reasoned Debate, Free Speech, and Service
President Lawrence S. Bacow, speaking at Morning Prayers in Memorial Church this morning at the start of the new academic year, expressed concern about the community’s commitment to civil discourse at a contentious time in the larger society. “I have …
Diagnosis by Fiction
In 1968 , Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was driving through the desert in Morocco on a dead-straight road. At one point, he noticed the sun going down directly in front of him while the moon was rising behind. “I had never seen anything like that on …
Issue: March-April 2024
Shopping Week R.I.P.?
At its monthly meeting on March 6, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) strongly indicated that it will discard the traditional undergraduate shopping week for course selection each semester in favor of some form of preregistration. In an anticlimactic …
Claudia Goldin: Why Do Women Still Make Less Than Men?
Why do women still make less than men ? Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee professor of economics, shares the reason why working mothers still earn less and advance less often in their careers than men: time. Even with antidiscrimination laws and unbiased …
“Disappointing” Endowment Returns-and a Protracted Restructuring
On September 19 , Harvard Management Company (HMC) CEO N.V. Narvekar reported an 8.1 percent investment return on endowment assets during fiscal year 2017, ended last June 30, observing bluntly, “Our performance is disappointing and not where it needs to …
Issue: November-December 2017
Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past
For Elena Palladino, Ed.M. ’13, the Quabbin Reservoir preserve in central Massachusetts is more than a wild place to explore. During the last six years, she has delved into the history of the region—and the lives of those forced to leave their communities …
Issue: September-October 2023
Brevia
Executive-ed Gateway In early June, Harvard Business School dedicated the Chao Center, its new gateway for the extensive executive-education facilities at the eastern end of its campus. The facility replaces Kresge Hall, and serves as a convening and …
Issue: September-October 2016
A New Green Revolution?
By 2050, somewhere between nine and 11 billion people will be living on the planet. What will everyone eat? More than half the calories consumed by humans come directly from plants, mainly from grains such as rice, wheat, and corn. But agricultural yields …
Issue: March-April 2018
This Thing We Did
Editor’s note: On the eve of Commencement, former Ledecky Fellow Noah Pisner ’14 recalls his last night at the College. We spend the evening after graduation in the Mac Quad: ill, inebriated, nerves webbing up our throats, incapacitated by a sense of …
The Undergraduate: Outsmarting Our Smartphones
One sketch from the pilot episode of Portlandia , Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s eclectic homage to the niche (read: hipster) culture of Portland, Oregon, has always resonated with me. Surrounded by an iPad, Macbook, and iPhone, Armisen becomes …
Issue: May-June 2015
Football: Harvard 32, Brown 22
If one measure of a good football team is being able to win tough conference games on the road, then the 2016 edition of the Harvard Crimson took a step toward being a good football team this past Saturday at sun-splashed Brown Stadium. Using a balanced …
Cherry Murray Steps Down as Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) since mid 2009 , announced today that she would relinquish the post at the end of 2014. She intends to return to regular service on the faculty, according to the news …