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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 …
Deval L. Patrick Named 2015 Commencement Speaker
Deval L. Patrick ’78, J.D. ’82, the seventy-first governor of Massachusetts, who completed his second term last month, will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 364th Commencement on Thursday, May 28, the University announced today. Calling Patrick “an …
Free Speech, the Bomb—and Donald Trump
Dr. James Muller , a young Harvard cardiologist in the 1970s, was standing in a parking lot outside Boston’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital when he first imagined Russian and American doctors joining forces to oppose nuclear weapons. It was an idea as …
Issue: September-October 2025
Zachary R. Mider ’01 Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize board today announced the 2015 winners and finalists in 21 categories in journalism and the arts. Zachary R. Mider ’01 received the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, for his series “Tax Runaways,” about corporate tax avoidance. …
We Were Students Once...
...And Young. That’s the starting point of The Nancy Poems (Cirque Press, 2024), by John Morgan ’65. First, the backstory. Morgan took Robert Lowell’s poetry seminar in both his junior and senior years, and then headed from Cambridge to the Iowa Writers’ …
Issue: May-June 2025
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
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Behind the Scenes: Writing A “Scholar’s Scholar”
Dear Reader, We believe that at a moment like this—when Harvard research and education matter immensely to the world—the University’s leadership matters, too. That’s why we use Harvard Magazine ’s special strengths to present as full a portrait as …
Five Questions with Jacob Roberts ’19
Jacob Roberts ’19, who co-produced and starred in the film Rent Free, was profiled in the January-February issue of Harvard Magazine . Here, Roberts shares more about his creative inspirations, his time at Harvard, and how he spends his time outside of …