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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 …
“Building Bridges” Across Disagreements
… to $5,000, and the deadline for submissions is January 6, 2025. “Our own community has the skills, creativity, and …
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 …
Admissions after Affirmative Action
Nationwide , members of the class of 2028 are now engaged in their coursework, like so many preceding cohorts. But unlike their past half-century of predecessors at colleges and universities with selective admissions, they gained their places at their new …
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 …
Back to the Gridiron
When last we glimpsed the Harvard football team and its supporters, it was November 23, 2019, and they were wandering stunned and spent around the floor of the Yale Bowl following the Crimson’s ghastly double-overtime, 50-43 defeat to the arch-rival …
Issue: September-October 2021
Category Errors
It is a good thing that Harvard’s campus was not sundered this past fall semester (as it was in 2023) by bitter, despairing, and even hateful divisions over terrorism and the brutal war in the Middle East. But the protests that have occurred most often of …
Issue: January-February 2025
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
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
Breaking Even in a Bleak Year?
Despite a second consecutive year of reduced revenues—as the pandemic closed many executive-education programs, for example, and reduced degree-student enrollment (and associated tuition, room, and board income)—and increased expenses for coronavirus …
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Issue: July-August 2021
Overseer Candidates’ 2024 Harvard Priorities
Each year , Harvard Magazine asks candidates for Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—to answer the questions listed below. This compilation of their responses is published to help eligible voters understand the …
Football 2023: Harvard 48-Howard 7
In football parlance, a “chunk play” is one in which the offense gains a chunk of yardage—at least 15 yards rushing or 20 passing. On Saturday at the Stadium Harvard was exceedingly chunky in a stress-free 48-7 rout of Howard. The victory moved the …
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EVP Exits Katherine (“Katie”) N. Lapp, executive vice president since 2009, announced in May that she would step down this summer. Lapp has largely been a behind-the-scenes administrator, responsible for campus services, finance, human resources, …
Issue: July-August 2022
The Best Diets for Healthy Aging
How can we eat to age well ? New research published January 9, 2023, in JAMA Internal Medicine links four major healthy eating patterns to a lower risk of premature death and of cancer, diseases of the cardiovascular system, and respiratory illness. The …
Harvard Endowment Increases $11.3 Billion to $53.2 Billion, and University Operations Yield $283-Million Surplus Despite Pandemic
H arvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, published today, shows much more favorable results than might have been expected when the University was forced to send students home in March 2020, beginning more than a year of …