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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
Climate-Change Solutions
… levels 26 percent to 28 percent below the 2005 level by 2025. “That trajectory,” he said, “puts us…where we need to …
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, …
Congratulations Are in Order
Six alumni received the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards—for their outstanding service to alumni activities for the University—during the fall meeting of the HAA’s board of directors. Thomas E. “Ted” Blamey, M.B.A. ’70, of Sydney, Australia, is a …
Issue: November-December 2015
University News Briefs
… If Harvard has not committed to divestment by the end of 2025, the funds would be directed to tax-exempt …
Issue: May-June 2015
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. …
Football 2021: Harvard 49, Brown 17
Friday in Cambridge was grey, with rain ever-threatening. But at 6:30 p.m.—30 minutes before the scheduled kickoff of the Harvard football team’s home opener against Ivy League rival Brown—the sun glinted through the clouds. It was a perfect harbinger for …
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 …
The “Wild West” of Cancer Misinformation Online
… followers had embraced her (often dangerous) claims. In 2025, Netflix released a dramatized series about her life, … Center for Global Cancer Prevention, for World Cancer Week 2025—moderator Malika Marshall, a medical reporter for …
Freshman Convocation 2015: “Surprise Yourself”
Wearing blazers , bow ties, and summer dresses, members of the College class of 2019 walked into Tercentenary Theatre as a group for the first time, stopping to pose for photographers—and taking the occasional “selfie”—at the annual Freshman Convocation …
Harvard’s Allston Science and Engineering Complex Approved
… and discovery.” Eventually, Doyle said, the vision for 2025 and beyond includes: Harvard’s new Gateway building …
Football 2022: Columbia 21-Harvard 20
LAST WEEKEND we all fell back. The Harvard football team took this edict perhaps too much to heart. In a seismic Ivy League upset at the Stadium, the Crimson lost to last-place Columbia 21-20. The defeat drops Harvard to 5-3 overall and 3-2 in league …
Allston Ambitions
At a public meeting on December 16, Harvard presented its 10-year institutional development plans for Allston, detailing anticipated construction and renovations through 2034. The University owns approximately 358 acres of land in Allston, but the …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Nature of Archives
In her 2021 installation “Potomitans,” shown at Art Basel in Switzerland, the Franco-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga suspended 39 dainty silver chains from the ceiling, adorning them with handmade sculptures of leaves, berries, and flowers from Mimosa …
Issue: November-December 2022
Jacinda Ardern to Speak at Harvard Commencement
N ew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern , making a planned trip to the United States, will be the featured guest speaker at Harvard’s 2022 Commencement exercises on the morning of May 26. The news, officially released by the University today, …