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Former Crimson Star Spearheads New Soccer League
For a child raised in the United States, Charles Altchek ’07 had an unusually soccer-focused upbringing. The son of a French mother, he spent his summers playing soccer in France and attended French American school in Westchester County, New York, where …
Photographs from Commencement Week 2024
Jim Harrison, who has covered Commencement for decades, and Harvard Magazine staff members have captured images throughout this 373rd Commencement week. We share some of our favorite images here. Scroll down for images from the beginning of the …
The Living Harvard Force
The first in what is now a 90-year series of alumni directories came into the world in 1910. Then known as the Harvard University Directory, it had taken almost six years to compile and sold for $2 a copy. Its alphabetical section listed the names of …
Harvard Professor Carla Martin on the Cocoa Crisis
Why have chocolate prices surged since before Valentine's Day, hitting an all time high around Easter? Some analysts have predicted that cocoa may reach highs of $10,000 a ton in this historic period of inflation, growing in value at a rate faster than …
Harvard 25-Penn 23 (Triple Overtime)
Sunlight had transitioned to darkness on Saturday at Harvard Stadium when the Crimson football team lined up in the third overtime with a share of the Ivy League title in its hands. Harvard had tried to give the game against Penn away several times but …
Brevia
Medicine’s Man. Pioneering stem-cell scientist George Q. Daley ’82, M.D. ’91, has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School, effective January 1. He succeeds Jeffrey S. Flier, who concluded nine years of service on July 31. During an announcement-day …
Issue: November-December 2016
The Picture of Freedom
The two photographic albums at the center of the Boston Athenaeum’s current exhibit, “ Framing Freedom ,” are deceptively humble: small and squat, with worn leather covers and heavy metal clasps. But the albums, which belonged to nineteenth-century …
Harvard Sexual Assault Report Calls for Training, Culture Change
A University task force charged with making recommendations for the prevention of sexual assault at Harvard issued its final report today. It calls for changing the campus culture (including such fixtures as single-sex undergraduate final clubs) and for …
Regional Culinary Specialties—Caribbean & Latin America
An article by Cassandra Lucca, Let’s Go Editor-in-Chief and Danielle Eisenman, Let’s Go Associate Editor Though the burrito is a mainstay of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine well-known in the US, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean offers other equally …
Off the Shelf
The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture, by Douglass Shand-Tucci '72 (St. Martin's, $25.95). After characterizing the two dominant nineteenth-century gay archetypes — the warrior and the aesthete — …
Issue: May-June 2003
"At the Interface"
On a rainy September morning in 1999, hundreds of Native Americans gathered on the Mall near the U.S. Capitol to celebrate the groundbreaking for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, …
How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss
Ever lost a coin toss? In theory, the odds could have gone your way or the other. The stakes may or may not have been low for you, but millions of dollars are regularly waged on the outcome of the Super Bowl coin toss. But what if a coin lands on its …
Harvard Medalists
Avarita L. Hanson Avarita L. Hanson ’75 in 1975 founded what’s now known as the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and has served as treasurer of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975, president of the Harvard Club of Georgia, Harvard Alumni …
Issue: July-August 2022
Back to the Bond Market
On March 5, the University placed a new offering of $750 million of taxable bonds, maturing in 2035 and priced to yield 4.609 percent. The new debt (the Series 2024A bonds) is Harvard’s first bond sale since the twin Series 2022 A and B borrowings , …
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha, M.Arch. ’08, first started thinking about Walter the crocodile sometime in 2020. COVID-19 had shut down much of the world, and she was at home with her children, who were then two and four. “It was a very intense time,” she says. Work and …
Issue: May-June 2025