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Truer than Reality
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum of knobbly noses, splayed teeth, dewlaps, wattles, and vast foreheads. He’s produced some 10,000 cartoons for the …
Issue: September-October 2022
November-December 2023
November-December 2023 … issue …
Radcliffe Fellows for 2014-2015 Announced
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this spring, has announced its fellows for 2014-2015. The 50 men and women include creative artists, humanists, scientists, and social scientists; 11 are Harvard …
The End of the Ivy League?
With one minute left in Harvard’s last men’s basketball game of the 2023-2024 season, sophomore Chisom Okpara drove toward the basket, leaped, and released the ball. It clanked off the rim back into his hands. On the second attempt, he made the shot, his …
Issue: November-December 2024
Overseer Candidates’ 2024 Harvard Priorities
Each year , Harvard Magazine asks candidates for Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—to answer the questions listed below. This compilation of their responses is published to help eligible voters understand the …
The Best Diets for Healthy Aging
How can we eat to age well ? New research published January 9, 2023, in JAMA Internal Medicine links four major healthy eating patterns to a lower risk of premature death and of cancer, diseases of the cardiovascular system, and respiratory illness. The …
The 2020 HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. J. Jacques Carter, M.P.H. ’83, of Brookline, Massachusetts, has served as a teacher, adviser, and mentor for students at the College, Harvard Medical School, and the …
Issue: November-December 2020
Harvard Endowment Increases $11.3 Billion to $53.2 Billion, and University Operations Yield $283-Million Surplus Despite Pandemic
H arvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, published today, shows much more favorable results than might have been expected when the University was forced to send students home in March 2020, beginning more than a year of …
Football 2023: Harvard 48-Howard 7
In football parlance, a “chunk play” is one in which the offense gains a chunk of yardage—at least 15 yards rushing or 20 passing. On Saturday at the Stadium Harvard was exceedingly chunky in a stress-free 48-7 rout of Howard. The victory moved the …
Several Harvard Professional Schools Move Online for Fall
SIX of Harvard’s professional schools announced today that they will offer online-only instruction this fall, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to curtail safe education in residence. Separately, the University has determined that distributions from …
Brevia
Racial Justice in FAS Following the appointment of the University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer ( Brevia, September-October , page 21), Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced in August that despite hiring constraints, she would …
Issue: November-December 2020
Breaking Even in a Bleak Year?
Despite a second consecutive year of reduced revenues—as the pandemic closed many executive-education programs, for example, and reduced degree-student enrollment (and associated tuition, room, and board income)—and increased expenses for coronavirus …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: July-August 2021
News in Brief
Economics Nobelist Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin, the first woman tenured in Harvard’s economics department, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in economic sciences on October 9—only the third woman so honored, and the first as the solo …
Issue: January-February 2024
Financial Update
Harvard Magazine is a 501(c)3 affiliate of Harvard University with excellent access to University news and news sources—but as an editorially independent publication, the magazine is written, edited, and produced with readers’ interests foremost in mind. …
Postseason’s End
On Sunday , Harvard trailed Columbia with just over a minute remaining in the Great Eight round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), when guard McKenzie Forbes ’23 received the ball on the perimeter. The Crimson had been behind by 20 …