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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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
Ledecky Fellowships
The Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellowship program, supported by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother,enables the magazine to appoint two undergraduates to the editorial staff each academic year. The fellows …
Arts and Sciences: Strong Finances, and an Aging Faculty
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year was the principal subject of the FAS meeting on November 7. Before presenting it, Hopi Hoekstra launched a meeting innovation—a faculty member’s “research minute” …
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 …
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. …
Behind the Scenes: Chance reunion between old chums
Writing my March-April feature profile “ Diagnosis by Fiction ,” on novelist Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was an enjoyable adventure that involved an unusual type of reunion. I have actually known Steve for about 40 years but hadn’t seen or spoken with …
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
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