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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 Names Alan M. Garber President
Penny Pritzker , senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, announced today that physician and economist Alan M. Garber ’77, Ph.D. ’82, appointed interim president last January 2 following the resignation of Claudine Gay, has been made president and will …
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 …
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… requirement that applicants for admission to the class of 2025 submit standardized test scores . Although other …
Issue: September-October 2020
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
News in Brief
… applicants to submit standardized test scores, as of fall 2025. Newsmakers Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, a …
Issue: September-October 2024
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 …
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 …
The Morning Exercises, Virtual Again
Amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with continuing racial injustices, the Harvard community carried on through a unique academic year, closing with a week of online class days, degree conferrals, and more. Two of the musical interludes and all three …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Football: Yale 34-Harvard 29
… of the 2024 season will appear in the January-February 2025 issue of Harvard Magazine .) Andrew Aurich, in his … The Crimson will kick off its 151st season on September 20, 2025, against an opponent and at a venue to be announced. …
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, …