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Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”
Sarah Karmon, the new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), is excited to continue building “an inclusive and interconnected alumni community and really celebrate the impact that Harvard alumni are making around the world.” She took …
Issue: March-April 2023
A Decisive Postseason Victory—and Now a Third (Updated)
Last April , shortly after she was hired , Carrie Moore, the Delaney-Smith head coach of women’s basketball, held her first workouts with the team. Defense, she emphasized, was paramount. Last night that message seemed to have gotten through. Harvard …
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Presidential Search As the search for the successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow proceeds, faculty and staff advisory committees were disclosed on August 25. Archon Fung, McCormack professor of citizenship and self-government and director of the Ash …
Issue: November-December 2022
Dename Winthrop?
In November 2023 , a group of students spoke at the Institute of Politics (IOP) about their campaign to dename Winthrop House. Earlier that year, in March, they had submitted an official denaming request to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that …
A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens
There’s something otherworldly about watching a plane land at Boston Logan Airport. The wheels graze the coast of Boston, mere inches from the cobalt Atlantic Ocean, threatening to touch the waves before brushing the tarmac. In daylight, the blood-orange …
The Harvard Context: Football Coach Tim Murphy as a Leader and Coach
This is the eleventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important (and fun!) subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. With a dominant victory last weekend …
On Firmer Footing
The good news is that “Harvard’s finances ended the year in a dramatically improved position” compared to expectations during the pandemic, resulting in an operating surplus of $283 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, according to the annual …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Boston Camerata Turns 70
… Tero Saarinen (slated to be performed in Europe in 2025-26). More recently, the ensemble has developed programs … will be performed at Boston’s Old West Church on April 27, 2025. Among Boston Camerata’s best-known sources is the …
Issue: November-December 2024
President-elect Claudine Gay Announces Interim Deans
When Harvard President -elect Claudine Gay was chosen in December to become the University’s next president, she inherited a search to fill four open deanships. Divinity School dean David Hempton , School of Public Health dean Michelle Williams , and …
President Bacow on Harvard in the Months Ahead
On an afternoon when he might have been expected to take a year-end victory lap on behalf of Harvard—students had a successful semester of in-person learning, faculty members conducted their research—President Lawrence S. Bacow found himself issuing the …
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Would-Be Honorands Before COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that its guest speaker, following the morning exercises, would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013—perhaps the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Behind the Scenes: Writing what only I can write
THERE’S A QUOTE MY FORMER WRITING PROFESSOR LOVES, from Isaac Bashevis Singer: “I only write what only I can write.” I keep that quote on a sticky note near my desk. Of course, as a journalist, I don’t always get to choose exactly which topics I write …
Academic Workers Rally for Union Recognition
A week after publicly announcing their intention to form a union, non-tenure-track faculty members held two rallies Tuesday afternoon in Harvard Yard and at the Longwood campus. More than 100 people turned out, and amid chants of “When we fight, we win!” …
Be Willing to Fail, Faust Tells Class of 2015
In a Freshman Convocation with a twist, the class of 2015 was welcomed by President Drew Faust, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and others, and then introduced to an innovation: the Freshman Pledge. Telling the first-years that their …
Caring for Your Heart
Heart disease kills more Americans every year than all cancers combined. Yet a cancer diagnosis prompts immediate action and mobilizes families, said Ami Bhatt ’96, one of a panel of heart disease experts who spoke at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of …