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Endowment Expectations
Following the near-record 33.6 percent investment return on endowment assets in fiscal year 2021 , and the inevitable adjustment in fiscal 2022—when financial markets took account of the pandemic stimulus and rising inflation, and the endowment yielded a …
Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge Named Hasty Pudding’s 2023 Man and Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals will soon hand the Pudding Pot to actors Jennifer Coolidge and Bob Odenkirk, their 2023 Woman and Man of the Year. Woman of the Year Coolidge is beloved for her iconic performances in Legally Blonde (set at Harvard Law …
Football 2022: Princeton 37-Harvard 10
This time, it was fair and square. Unlike last year, when Princeton was awarded a contested, five-overtime 18-16 victory over Harvard , last Friday night nearly 11,000 spectators at the Stadium as well as an ESPNU audience saw the Tigers pummel the …
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 …
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 …
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
Behind the Scenes: Writing A “Scholar’s Scholar”
Editor John Rosenberg shares his behind-the-scenes look at what it took to write his in-depth feature on President Claudine Gay. Dear Reader, We believe that at a moment like this—when Harvard research and education matter immensely to the world—the …
Financial Fitness
Harvard’s financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, released in October, depict University operations fully back to normal after the pandemic. With on-campus enrollment at a still-elevated level as students returned from leaves or …
Issue: January-February 2024
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 …
Arts and Sciences’ Post-Pandemic Prowess
A t the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 1, Dean Claudine Gay presented a new look on the 2021-2022 academic and financial year: an annual report in which she has seemingly edited her own presence to an absolute minimum. In place of …
Saluting the 2024 Centennial Medalists
The Griffin 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 studies. It is the …
Admissions Angst: The Next Level
Harvard College received about 35,000 applications for admission to the class of 2015 , according to data released today. This represents a nearly 15 percent increase over the 30,489 applications received last year (when the number of applicants expanded …
2015 Elected Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
THE NAMES of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced during the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. For Overseer (six-year term), voters …
How Will Harvard Change Post-Coronavirus?
By the time you read this column, students and faculty and staff members—all vaccinated—should be on campus, or en route, to resume an in-person Harvard academic year. Some precautions will remain, but protecting people from the pandemic no longer looms …
Issue: September-October 2021
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