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Issue: March-April 2025
“Hard Truths” about Harvard’s Classroom “Compact”
… by FAS, a link will be provided here. Updated February 5, 2025, at 12:05 p.m. : A presentation of the committee’s …
Smooth Start
Leaders of this and other campuses wracked by turmoil during the 2023-2024 academic year following the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war naturally approached this fall term warily. Would pro-Palestinian protestors again set up encampments, or …
Issue: November-December 2024
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 …
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
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, …
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 …
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
The Psychology of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) technology represents the convergence of several sets of major forces in modern postindustrial life: big tech, novelty consumer demand, and interactive digital spaces. VR headsets promise immersive experiences in gaming, work, …
Provocative Politician
In 2021 , when Lee Junseok ’07 was elected chairman of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP)—becoming, at 36, the youngest-ever leader of a major party in the country—some likened his ascent to that of another controversial figure on the …
Issue: November-December 2024
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 …
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 …
Cambridge Smorgasbord
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Issue: May-June 2025
Collateral Damage
Even beyond the campuses divided by the October 7 Hamas attack and ensuing Israel-Gaza war, scorching political assaults on universities, and promising presidencies cut short, the academic year, now mercifully past, wounded higher education and the wider …
Issue: July-August 2024