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Honoris Causa
Four women and three men received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 26 (including one in absentia, because he is engaged in humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine). Provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following …
Issue: July-August 2022
The End of the Ivy League?
With one minute left in Harvard’s last men’s basketball game of the 2023-2024 season, sophomore Chisom Okpara drove toward the basket, leaped, and released the ball. It clanked off the rim back into his hands. On the second attempt, he made the shot, his …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Law School Partners with Royall House and Slave Quarters
Harvard Law School (HLS) has committed $500,000 to support the Royall House and Slave Quarters, a public museum in Medford, Massachusetts. The gift, announced today, comes as part of a new partnership with the nonprofit meant to bolster collaboration on …
Dename Winthrop?
In November 2023 , a group of students spoke at the Institute of Politics (IOP) about their campaign to dename Winthrop House. Earlier that year, in March, they had submitted an official denaming request to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that …
Five Questions with Professor Peter Der Manuelian
Bell professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian has been teaching and researching at Harvard since 2010, when he became the University’s first full-time Egyptologist since 1942 (read more in our 2011 Portrait here ). He also serves as the director of the …
The Context: How the United States Can Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
This is the ninth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. Can the United States reduce its contribution to …
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Mum’s the Word
In october, when the University reported financial results for fiscal year 2022, it introduced a surprise. Alongside news of a huge budget surplus, Harvard Management Company (HMC) significantly reduced the information it provides about the composition of …
Issue: January-February 2023
Football 2023: Harvard 41-Cornell 23
Three if by land, and three if by…air. With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, that’s the capsule description of the performance of Harvard’s Charles DePrima on Friday night at Harvard Stadium. The Crimson’s dual-threat junior …
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
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
Making Schools Work
I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane rehearsed the pitch he’d memorized to persuade the world’s richest man to fund a radical new approach to education reform. Ordinarily, Kane’s speech is slow and deliberate, …
Issue: March-April 2025