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Marc Goodheart Relinquishes Governing Boards Role
Marc Goodheart ’81, J.D. ’85, Secretary of the University since 1998—and thus the chief administrative officer of the two governing boards, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers—will relinquish that post following the Commencement ceremonies …
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
Overseer and Elected Director 2024 Slates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2024 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 14, …
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Pay
H arvard today released its 2020 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2021 (July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Harvard Previews Future Building Plans in Allston
… institutional master plan (IMP) by late 2024 or early 2025. IMPs cover only institutional growth. In Allston, …
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 …
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
Harvard’s Development Chief Departs
Brian K. Lee , vice president for alumni affairs and development since 2018—in effect, the University’s chief fundraising officer—will retire at the end of 2024, the University announced today. He had previously filled similar roles at Tufts (working with …
Harvard Magazine March-April 2024 Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to the March-April 2024 issue scavenger hunt! All clues can be solved with a copy of Harvard Magazine (and a cup of coffee or tea). For those without a print magazine who wish to partake, the online version of our latest issue can be used to solve …
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
Natalie Portman ’03 Named Class Day Speaker
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman ’03 will be the principal guest speaker for seniors celebrating Class Day in Tercentenary Theatre on May 27, Harvard College officials have announced. She was chosen after a subcommittee of eight class marshals …
A Smaller Surplus—and Endowment Returns Turn Positive
Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, published today, suggests that a post-pandemic new normal is largely in place. Operating revenues rose, but less than in the prior year, when students who had deferred admission or …
Abdul-Jabbar Praises Harvard’s Stand Against the Trump Administration
… of seeing it for the first time.” Correction (May 30, 2025) : A previous version of this article misquoted Kareem …
Behind the Scenes: Reporting the latest discoveries
People often ask me how we choose our subjects. In the case of Sharad Ramanathan, a quantitative biologist , I hoped to answer a question: How does someone trained in math and physics approach questions in biology, and how does that advance scientific …
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 …