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President-elect Claudine Gay Announces Interim Deans
When Harvard President -elect Claudine Gay was chosen in December to become the University’s next president, she inherited a search to fill four open deanships. Divinity School dean David Hempton , School of Public Health dean Michelle Williams , and …
Defeating the Darkness
Editor’s note: Brian Palmer ’86, Ph.D. ’00, a social anthropologist and scholar of religion at Uppsala University in Sweden, submitted this piece of his family’s history. In the 1950s, Ina (John) Bonnell was the librarian of Harvard’s burgeoning Russian …
Issue: March-April 2025
Be Willing to Fail, Faust Tells Class of 2015
In a Freshman Convocation with a twist, the class of 2015 was welcomed by President Drew Faust, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and others, and then introduced to an innovation: the Freshman Pledge. Telling the first-years that their …
Academic Workers Rally for Union Recognition
A week after publicly announcing their intention to form a union, non-tenure-track faculty members held two rallies Tuesday afternoon in Harvard Yard and at the Longwood campus. More than 100 people turned out, and amid chants of “When we fight, we win!” …
Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to Join Harvard Corporation
Kenneth C. Frazier J.D. ’78 and Joseph Y. Bae ’94 will become fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, the University announced today in a message to the community. Frazier will begin his service on February 7, 2024, filling the …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
“The Spirit of Commitment and Sacrifice”
At the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony on Wednesday, May 27, three College seniors joined the U.S. Army and a fourth joined the U.S. Navy. The new second lieutenants are: Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, of New Haven, Connecticut, who …
Brevia
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 Financial Fallout…So Far
Harvard’s adjustment to the coronavirus pandemic, from declining executive-education enrollment last winter to the depopulating of campus and shift to online instruction in mid March, began to show up in the University and Faculty of Arts Sciences (FAS) …
Issue: January-February 2021
Meeting of the Faculty
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on February 15, 2005, the formal agenda proposed two principal business items: a discussion by Dean William C. Kirby of his Annual Letter to the faculty; and a discussion by Kirby and Benedict H. Gross, …
Paying Student-Athletes?
During the last two weekends, madness descended on basketball courts around the country. But while teams battled for the college basketball national championship, even more madness is taking place behind the scenes. In 2021, a pair of NCAA rule changes …
Small Talk, From Afar
As Leo Koerner ’26 trudged upstairs with Declan Deady ’27, a three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood veneer and plastered with Soviet-era maps, he had just a few moments to …
Issue: May-June 2025
A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court
Men’s basketball senior guard/forward Chris Ledlum, a former high-school football player, sometimes jokes with teammates that even on the basketball court, he’s “an NFL-level wide receiver.” Against Cornell in January, he demonstrated why: in the second …
Behind the Scenes
Support from readers like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. We wanted to share what goes on behind the scenes—so we asked our editors to describe something about what goes into reporting and …
A Return to the Beloved Community
“I’m going to tell you three stories,” said Reginald Dwayne Betts to listeners at the Cambridge Public Library Tuesday evening, at the start of remarks honoring Martin Luther King Jr. A Harvard visiting lecturer in English, Betts is a poet, practicing …
Balloting Begins
The annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) begins today, and concludes May 18. Alongside the eight candidates for Overseer put forth through the HAA nominating process, a slate …