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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 …
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
“Building Bridges” Across Disagreements
… to $5,000, and the deadline for submissions is January 6, 2025. “Our own community has the skills, creativity, and …
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
Behind the Scenes: The Language of Whales
Managing editor Jonathan Shaw reflects on how he first learned about the research into decoding the language of sperm whales and how he followed the developing story. I was chatting with a colleague on a cold Friday morning in late January some years …
Harvard to Keep Arthur Sackler’s Name on Museum and Building
The Harvard Corporation has accepted a recommendation not to dename the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and Building, the University announced today. The denaming request was originally submitted in October 2022 by a group of students who argued that Arthur …
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 …
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 …
Home Among Strangers
… I’d never met a member of the Class of 2024 or Class of 2025 in person, I lingered somewhere between the typical, …
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 …
Category Errors
It is a good thing that Harvard’s campus was not sundered this past fall semester (as it was in 2023) by bitter, despairing, and even hateful divisions over terrorism and the brutal war in the Middle East. But the protests that have occurred most often of …
Issue: January-February 2025
Purchasing Renewable Energy
The University announced today that in partnership with MIT, Mass General Brigham hospital, and a group of public and nonprofit organizations in Eastern Massachusetts, it would purchase the power produced by two large renewable energy projects: a 200 …
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 …
“People Were Making Bricks Out of Straw”
“We have to see our own power.” That was the core message from civil rights lawyer and 2022 Radcliffe Medal recipient Sherrilyn Ifill during a Radcliffe Day discussion on Friday. Her remarks were intended to inspire, but also to warn: “One of the …
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 …