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Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, famously dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to focus on building a new kind of software company. Fifty years later, this February 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation …
The 2020 HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. J. Jacques Carter, M.P.H. ’83, of Brookline, Massachusetts, has served as a teacher, adviser, and mentor for students at the College, Harvard Medical School, and the …
Issue: November-December 2020
Faculty Room Facelift
The Faculty Room, the soaring second-floor space at the center of University Hall—designed by Charles Bulfinch, A.B. 1781 (who provided his services in exchange for tuition payments for son Thomas, class of 1814—an early legacy!) and completed in 1815—is …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
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 …
Brevia
Racial Justice in FAS Following the appointment of the University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer ( Brevia, September-October , page 21), Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced in August that despite hiring constraints, she would …
Issue: November-December 2020
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: July-August 2021
The Unfinished Recovery
… to improve K-12 schooling, forthcoming in the March-April 2025 issue (online February 14). … 21454 … Post-pandemic …
Financial Update
Harvard Magazine is a 501(c)3 affiliate of Harvard University with excellent access to University news and news sources—but as an editorially independent publication, the magazine is written, edited, and produced with readers’ interests foremost in mind. …
November-December 2023
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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 …
Collateral Damage
Even beyond the campuses divided by the October 7 Hamas attack and ensuing Israel-Gaza war, scorching political assaults on universities, and promising presidencies cut short, the academic year, now mercifully past, wounded higher education and the wider …
Issue: July-August 2024
Merrick Garland’s Commencement Address
Thank you, President Bacow for this extraordinary honor. And for your kind, but overly generous introduction. And thank you to my wife, Lynn, Harvard Class of 1982, for listening to President Bacow’s introduction without laughing out loud at the parts …