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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
Admissions after Affirmative Action
Nationwide , members of the class of 2028 are now engaged in their coursework, like so many preceding cohorts. But unlike their past half-century of predecessors at colleges and universities with selective admissions, they gained their places at their new …
“Hard Truths” about Harvard’s Classroom “Compact”
… by FAS, a link will be provided here. Updated February 5, 2025, at 12:05 p.m. : A presentation of the committee’s …
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 …
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 …
2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners
The Harvard Alumni Association named Stephany Zhivotovsky ’23, of Cabot House, and Adam Aleksic ’23, of Kirkland House, as this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars—accompanied by a $2,000 unrestricted honorarium—for their thoughtful leadership …
Issue: November-December 2022
Saluting the 2020 Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is the …
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
Three Harvardians have been named MacArthur fellows . Known as the “genius” grant, the fellowship recognizes individuals across disciplines who have “shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for …
Off the Shelf
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Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
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
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
The Psychology of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) technology represents the convergence of several sets of major forces in modern postindustrial life: big tech, novelty consumer demand, and interactive digital spaces. VR headsets promise immersive experiences in gaming, work, …
“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 …
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 …