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On March 5, the University placed a new offering of $750 million of taxable bonds, maturing in 2035 and priced to yield 4.609 percent. The new debt (the Series 2024A bonds) is Harvard’s first bond sale since the twin Series 2022 A and B borrowings , …
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
No celebration for the Office for the Arts (OFA) could possibly capture the organization’s broad reach . Nearly 40 percent of Harvard’s 7,000 undergraduates participate in OFA programming every year. Through classes, apprenticeships, and funding …
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 …
Purchasing Renewable Energy
The University announced today that in partnership with MIT, Mass General Brigham hospital, and a group of public and nonprofit organizations in Eastern Massachusetts, it would purchase the power produced by two large renewable energy projects: a 200 …
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 …
Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era
“Who here had any democratic input into ChatGPT?” Catherine D’Ignazio asked the audience at the Radcliffe Institute’s Knafel Center. “Nobody’s raising their hand, that’s strange,” she joked, looking out at the predominantly female crowd gathered for a …
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 …
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 …
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
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
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. …
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, …
Climate-Solutions Investments Exceed 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has released its annual report on progress toward a 2050 target of “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with endowment investments and operations. As of June 30, 2023, the latest fiscal year for which data …
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 …
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