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Economics Nobelist Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin, the first woman tenured in Harvard’s economics department, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in economic sciences on October 9—only the third woman so honored, and the first as the solo …
Issue: January-February 2024
Governing Games of Chance
Gambling goes back millennia, but today’s proliferation of mobile phones has transformed it into a nearly ubiquitous global commercial enterprise, with looming public health implications. “You’ve got your casino in your pocket 24-7,” observes Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2025
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
HAA Honors Three Alumni for Service
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has recognized three alumni as the 2021 Harvard Medalists, honoring their extraordinary service to the University. (The actual medal presentation is typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of …
Arts and Engineering
Despite a recent media focus on campus protests and changes in institutional leadership, substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty growth in fields spanning both arts and sciences. …
Issue: March-April 2025
Barry Keoghan and Annette Bening Named Hasty Pudding’s 2024 Man and Woman of the Year
Actors Barry Keoghan and Annette Bening will be the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2024 Man and Woman of the Year, the group announced, with Man of the Year festivities set to take place on February 2, followed by the Woman of the Year ceremony on February 6. …
Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”
Sarah Karmon, the new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), is excited to continue building “an inclusive and interconnected alumni community and really celebrate the impact that Harvard alumni are making around the world.” She took …
Issue: March-April 2023
Brevia
Presidential Search As the search for the successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow proceeds, faculty and staff advisory committees were disclosed on August 25. Archon Fung, McCormack professor of citizenship and self-government and director of the Ash …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Harvard Context: Football Coach Tim Murphy as a Leader and Coach
This is the eleventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important (and fun!) subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. With a dominant victory last weekend …
A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens
There’s something otherworldly about watching a plane land at Boston Logan Airport. The wheels graze the coast of Boston, mere inches from the cobalt Atlantic Ocean, threatening to touch the waves before brushing the tarmac. In daylight, the blood-orange …
A Decisive Postseason Victory—and Now a Third (Updated)
Last April , shortly after she was hired , Carrie Moore, the Delaney-Smith head coach of women’s basketball, held her first workouts with the team. Defense, she emphasized, was paramount. Last night that message seemed to have gotten through. Harvard …
On Firmer Footing
The good news is that “Harvard’s finances ended the year in a dramatically improved position” compared to expectations during the pandemic, resulting in an operating surplus of $283 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, according to the annual …
Issue: January-February 2022
Brevia
Would-Be Honorands Before COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that its guest speaker, following the morning exercises, would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013—perhaps the …
Issue: May-June 2020
“Study-Ins” and Studying
The bullhorn-led responsive chanting and shouted epithets that marked the fall semester a year ago—after the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war in Gaza and beyond—gave way to something quieter, and subtly different, this autumn: pro-Palestinian …
Max J. Krupnick , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2025
President Bacow on Harvard in the Months Ahead
On an afternoon when he might have been expected to take a year-end victory lap on behalf of Harvard—students had a successful semester of in-person learning, faculty members conducted their research—President Lawrence S. Bacow found himself issuing the …