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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 …
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January-February 2024
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“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 …
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. …
Increasing Access
Harvard Magazine has long published commentaries from the president on matters that are timely and relevant to the life of the University. In an era of rapid news cycles, it can be challenging to craft copy that made sense given the long lead times for …
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 …
Harvard Haves and Have-Nots
Anthony Abraham Jack has written an important, passionate analysis of the conditions and challenges facing students from lower-income families and underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds at Harvard—and by extension, at other elite, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
News in Brief
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
Close Call
… , 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 …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
Climate-Solutions Investments Near 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosed today that endowment investments in “climate solutions”—such as carbon-capture and sequestration enterprises—are approaching 1 percent of total endowment assets, and growing rapidly. HMC, which oversees …