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Capitalizing
The University announced in mid September that The Harvard Campaign—launched publicly a year earlier, with $2.8 billion of gifts and pledges in hand—had realized an additional $1.5 billion of commitments through the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 2014, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Mystical Poet and American Novelist Launch Commencement Week
Speaking in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning, poet Donald Revell and orator Andrea Barrett opened the Commencement celebrations at the 224th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) exercises. Best known for his 1983 collection From Abandoned Cities , Revell draws …
Harvard Business School Launches HBX
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced HBX, its venture into online learning . It differs in two significant ways from edX, the Harvard-MIT online learning partnership through which HarvardX has offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) from …
Q&A with Theresa Betancourt
Assistant professor of child health and human rights Theresa Betancourt, the director of Harvard’s Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, is the subject of a profile in the November-December issue . Here are excerpts from an interview with …
Voter Suppression Returns
The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties, and their core constituents, believe that the stakes are exceptionally high; neither party has much trust in the …
Issue: July-August 2012
A Teach-in on Teaching
The first in a series of “Conversations@FAS” convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith drew a standing-room-only crowd on February 11 to a lecture theater in Maxwell-Dworkin, where professors, lecturers, tutors, and teaching fellows …
A Yukon Life
An Essay on Eric Eric Hegsted ’73 lived in Yukon Territory for four decades, until his death in a snowmobile accident in 2019. Though urged to write publishable essays on his experiences there, he wanted to avoid the temptation of tinkering with his life …
Issue: September-October 2021
Four in a Row
Iannuzzi’s runback. If you witnessed it, you know. If you didn’t, be advised that Marco Iannuzzi’s 84-yard kick return in the 2010 Harvard-Yale game will stand as another high moment in the fabled series, as memorable as Bob Cochran’s juggling catch in …
Issue: January-February 2011
A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide
Case by case , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, has chipped away at laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: first by arguing cases before the Supreme Court as an attorney for the American Civil …
Big D
Arctic conditions prevailed at Harvard Stadium on November 22, and so did the home team. With a titanic defensive performance, Harvard shut out Yale, 10-0, topping off a 9-1 season and securing a share of the Ivy League championship. Harvard won the Ivy …
Issue: January-February 2009
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2
On the afternoon of September 25, President Drew Faust hosted a discussion on "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts," before a full house in Sanders Theatre and a webcast audience. (An archive of the webcast is available …
Race in a Genetic World
“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. …
Issue: May-June 2008
“The Excitement of Science”
In the fall of 2003, Juliet Girard ’07 arrived at Harvard with first-rate scientific ambitions and a second-rate education. She had grown up in Jersey City and taken classes at a large public high school—it was “pretty bad,” she says—before …
Issue: July-August 2006
Art Museums Launch Renaissance
The rebirthing of the Harvard University Art Museums is announced. After months of strategic planning, and a wide-ranging search for real estate, the staff of the museums is bracing for work that will solve alarming infrastructure problems, daringly …
Issue: March-April 2006
Paradigm Shift
From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. Harvard earned league championships with an undefeated season in 2001 and another in 2004; Penn beat out the Crimson for …
Issue: January-February 2006