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March-April 2023
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The Context: How the United States Can Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
This is the ninth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. Can the United States reduce its contribution to …
Mum’s the Word
In october, when the University reported financial results for fiscal year 2022, it introduced a surprise. Alongside news of a huge budget surplus, Harvard Management Company (HMC) significantly reduced the information it provides about the composition of …
Issue: January-February 2023
Football 2023: Harvard 41-Cornell 23
Three if by land, and three if by…air. With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, that’s the capsule description of the performance of Harvard’s Charles DePrima on Friday night at Harvard Stadium. The Crimson’s dual-threat junior …
News in Brief
Top Trio President Lawrence S. Bacow had the rare opportunity in late November to appoint three faculty members to University Professorships: Harvard’s highest distinction for scholars, recognizing distinguished research and teaching that extend across …
Issue: March-April 2023
New Traditions
A place 388 years young naturally has lots of traditions. Yet it keeps adding new ones. Among the latter is the first-year convocation, held for the sixteenth time this September 2. Among the former is Morning Prayers, dating from the founding in 1636 and …
Issue: November-December 2024
Rakesh Khurana To Step Down
Rakesh Khurana announced Thursday that he is stepping down next June, making the 2024-25 academic year his last as dean of Harvard College. In a letter addressed to the University community, Khurana revealed that he had initially intended to depart this …
Brevia
Corporation and Overseer Cohort Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected fellows of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. Barakett, a native of Canada who founded and led a large hedge fund for …
Issue: May-June 2019
Striking Distance
Last May, when Eli Dershwitz ’18 (’19) turned in his finals and headed out of Cambridge for the summer, he was the top-ranked men’s saber fencer in the United States. When he returned to campus three months later, he was number one in the world. The time …
Issue: November-December 2018
Harvard Renovated
Fall has come to campus , but the trees are not the only scenery that has changed in recent months. Harvard Magazine took advantage of some sunny days and walked through campus to prepare this update on Harvard’s new construction in Cambridge and Boston. …
Climate-Solutions Investments Near 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosed today that endowment investments in “climate solutions”—such as carbon-capture and sequestration enterprises—are approaching 1 percent of total endowment assets, and growing rapidly. HMC, which oversees …
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation
Harvard today released its 2022 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Installation Academics
The half-dozen academic symposiums convened this morning as an intellectual prelude to Claudine Gay’s installation as Harvard’s thirtieth president covered a broad spectrum of disciplines, knit together by a pair of common themes. In her remarks last …
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Hailing from Harvard To fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, LL.B. ’60, President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, on March 16 nominated Merrick B. Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, District …
Issue: May-June 2016
Harvard Staff to Return August 2
The University announced today that if conditions permit, the majority of remote workers will be authorized to return to campus on Monday, August 2—almost 17 months after the community dispersed in mid March 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic first spread. …