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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 …
Harvard Offers to Pay More Than Half of West Station Cost
… MassDOT had initially planned to finish West Station by 2025, but announced last month that it would be 2040 before …
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 …
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 …
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… a better individual to inspire the members of our class of 2025 as they contemplate their futures.” Read the University …
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 …
January-February 2024
January-February 2024 … issue …
Ebbing Endowments? Updated
F or the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a 33.6 percent investment return on endowment assets , propelling an $11.3-billion gain in the endowment’s value, to a record $53.2 billion. Unsurprisingly, early reports …
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 …
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 …
Maria A. Ressa, LL.D. ’24, Harvard Commencement Address 2024
Maria Ressa Commencement Address Thank you, President Garber. And thank you former President Gay, who called me last year to extend this offer. It’s an incredible honor to address the distinguished Harvard faculty, the mysterious Harvard Corporation, and …
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 …
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
Arts and Sciences: Strong Finances, and an Aging Faculty
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year was the principal subject of the FAS meeting on November 7. Before presenting it, Hopi Hoekstra launched a meeting innovation—a faculty member’s “research minute” …