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… , has a fair idea of what lies ahead for him on May 29, 2025, having been on the receiving end (he is Ph.D. ’03). In …
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Postseason’s End
On Sunday , Harvard trailed Columbia with just over a minute remaining in the Great Eight round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), when guard McKenzie Forbes ’23 received the ball on the perimeter. The Crimson had been behind by 20 …
Engineering Dean Frank Doyle to Depart for Brown
F rank Doyle, dean of engineeering and applied sciences since July 2015, will step down next June to become provost at Brown University. With his departure, Harvard’s new president, when appointed, will have the opportunity to influence the selection of …
The Harvard Medalists of 2015
Five alumni —Charles J. “Charlie” Egan Jr. ’54, Michael E.A. Gellert ’53, Thomas W. Lentz Jr., Ph.D. ’85, Sandra Ohrn Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the University” on May 28, …
Football 2023: Harvard 34-Brown 31
On Friday night at Harvard Stadium, nearly 16,000 spectators witnessed a real rock-and-roller between Harvard and Brown. The game featured big plays, spectacular catches, a stirring goal-line stand and a cerebral move to clinch the outcome. When it was …
Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard
Since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, more and more Harvard students are considering the relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The topic frequently emerges in charged settings among like-minded students: on social media, at …
Civil Discourse and Institutional Neutrality Task Forces
Alan M. Garber , interim president since January 2 , and John F. Manning, interim provost since March 14 , today announced a pair of University-wide working groups. The “Institutional Voice Working Group” will consider when and if Harvard should take …
Two Momentous Faculty Retirements
On Tuesday afternoon , two stalwarts of the Harvard faculty gave the last lectures of their careers: medical anthropologist and psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman and computer scientist Harry Lewis. After teaching at the University for a combined 95 years, both …
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
CFO Thomas Hollister to Step Down
T homas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer since 2015, announced today that he would step down at the end of the academic year, next June 30. His decision, following the recent news that the deans of divinity …
And Having Written...
Deputy editor Craig Lambert tiptoed on to Harvard Magazine ’s masthead formally in the November-December 1988 issue, the ninetieth-anniversary edition, as a “copy editor.” (He had previously been listed among the contributing editors, having written about …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Education School Dean Appointed
The University has appointed Nonie K. Lesaux, Larsen professor of education and human development, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She has served as interim dean since July, succeeding Saris professor of education and economics …
The State of Harvard’s Arts and Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues issued their annual financial and other reports during an Election Day faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon, while also broaching other matters—among them, the desirability of students …
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, has been shadowed and shaped by the Holocaust. His mother, Ruth Wertheim, survived Auschwitz and, as he has related, arrived in the United States on the second Liberty Ship that brought …
Football 2022: Harvard 41-Howard 25
Last week in Washington, D.C. there emerged shocking video of a band of insurgents attacking one of the nation’s most venerable institutions. Eventually the established body reasserted control, but not before enduring a scare. We are talking in this case …