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President Bacow Plans to Step Down
Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, announced on June 8 that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that began in 2018, when he succeeded Drew Gilpin Faust. In a characteristically plainspoken …
Issue: September-October 2022
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
“Anyone Can Be an Activist”
Across the political spectrum, Harvard alumni concerned about the state of U.S. democracy, their apprehensions later intensified by the events of January 6, are doing what they can to advocate, educate, and mobilize voters ahead of the next …
Hopi Hoekstra Appointed Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean
B iologist Hopi e.Hoekstra will become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) effective August 1. She will succeed Claudine Gay, president-elect, who is the first FAS dean chosen to lead the University. During July, Emma Dench, who continues to …
Kevin Young to Address Harvard Alumni Association
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), which previously disclosed that its annual meeting will take place virtually this year, on June 4 , today announced that Kevin Young ’92 will appear as a principal guest speaker. Young, director of the Smithsonian’s …
Honoris Causa
Four men and two women received honorary degrees on May 25. Provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Lawrence S. Bacow read the citations. Learn more about each at harvardmag.com/honorands-23 . Adm. Michael G. …
Issue: July-August 2023
Harvard Appoints Ritu Kalra as New CFO
R itu Kalra has been appointed Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, filling an important vacancy created by the planned retirement of Thomas J. Hollister on June 30. The announcement was made this afternoon by Meredith …
Allston Commercial Development Advances
… soon, with initial occupancy beginning in 2024 or early 2025. … 223 … Boston approves plan with more affordable …
Conferring Degrees, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic spread, Harvard announced on March 20 that it would postpone (but not permanently cancel) the in-person 369 th Commencement and alumni reunion activities (see harvardmag.com/comm-postponed-20 ). The annual weeklong celebration …
Issue: May-June 2020
Spring Remains Remote
Nearly one month into autumn, Harvard’s principal professional schools today began to announce that spring teaching and learning will for the most part continue online, following the model that has been in place during the current semester. Plans for the …
Harvard Art Museums Will Reopen This Fall
The Harvard Art Museums have announced plans to reopen to the public this fall. The first visitors to return will be students: the galleries and courtyard will be open to them on Class Day, September 1, before allowing in the wider public beginning …
Brevia
Ethnicity Appointments. Erika Lee has been appointed Bae Family professor of history, effective next July, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof has been appointed professor of history (but both will be on leave for a year from the date of their appointments)—the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard’s 2015 Honorary-degree Recipients
During the morning exercises of the 364th Commencement, on May 28, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on six men and four women. Among them are: a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine , and a preeminent art historian —the daughter of another …
Scoring Moves
In track, sprinters kick off their starting blocks with all their might, springing forward like an arrow from a bow. In basketball, an emphatic dunk is invariably preceded by an emphatic push off the floor. But athletes don’t have the advantage of a solid …
Issue: November-December 2022
Back to the Bond Market
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 , …