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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
Nicole Maestas
During Nicole Maestas’s Napa Valley childhood, everything was grapes. Though her father worked in the wine finance business, the future MacArthur professor of economics and health care policy showed interest in neither farming nor money. At Wellesley …
Issue: July-August 2025
FAS: Faculty and Fisc
In presenting the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year to colleagues at their November meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra faced the unusual problem of accounting for developments for which she bore no responsibility: she …
Issue: January-February 2024
Football 2022: Holy Cross 30-Harvard 21
If you’re going to lose a football game, make it a non-league game against a superior team. That, at least, is the theory. But that does not necessarily lessen the sting of Harvard’s 30-21 defeat to Holy Cross of the Patriot League Saturday at the …
Behind the Scenes: Group Mentality
Staff writer Max Krupnick shares his insights into what led him to professor of psychology Mina Cikara’s research on group behavior. A few days after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, I sat in my friend’s living room. We talked about our …
About Harvard Magazine
… T. Bethell A.B. 19 54 1966-1995 John S. Rosenberg 1995-2025 Joanna Weiss A.B. 1994 2025-present … About Harvard Magazine … About Harvard …
Beyond the Crisis Du Jour
During a meeting on the morning of April 15—Good Friday, and before the first Passover seder he celebrates with family friends—President Lawrence S. Bacow said he was pursuing the “balance between managing the crisis du jour and what I call playing …
Words of Wisdom at an Outdoor Baccalaureate
On Wednesday, May 24, at the annual Baccalaureate ceremony, Lawrence S. Bacow addressed the senior class that arrived the same year he began his service as Harvard’s president. “I find it fitting that we are gathered here today in these billowing robes …
Making the Call
Michael Fabiano , A.L.M. ’16, was never happy sticking to one field. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and working in Bell Labs, he felt the tug of technology and switched his focus in …
Reparations as Public Health
“Health is wealth ,” said Julia Mejia, Boston City Councilor At-Large, during a conversation Monday afternoon with Harvard’s Mary T. Bassett about reparations for slavery as a public health measure. “All these things are really interconnected…and health …
Football 2023: Harvard 17-Dartmouth 9
Harvard’s game against Dartmouth on Saturday evening was in keeping with the throwback nature of this season’s celebration of 150 years of Crimson football. There was the big Harvard Stadium Homecoming crowd, reminiscent of Harvard-Dartmouth games of …
Ivy League Cancels Spring Competition
On Thursday, the eight Ivy League presidents announced that no inter-conference athletic competition will take place this coming spring. This will be the fourth straight season of canceled competition, and the second spring season stifled by the ongoing …
Arts and Sciences Dean Search Begins
J ust five days after she formally inaugurated the search for a successor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean, President-elect Claudine Gay and Provost Alan Garber formally launched the search for her successor as Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
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 …
Claudine Gay, President-Elect
Claudine Gay —dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2018—will become the thirtieth president of Harvard University on July 1. The announcement of her election by the Harvard Corporation, with the consent of the Board of Overseers, was made …
Issue: March-April 2023