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November-December 2023
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Mission Harvard Magazine is an independently edited and separately incorporated affiliate of Harvard University. The bimonthly magazine balances intellectual substance with human interest by educating and entertaining readers with insightful reporting …
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
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 …
The Legal Landscape for Climate Change
What is the U.S. legal landscape for addressing climate change? Cox professor of law Jody Freeman provided an overview of the dynamics among the three branches of federal government during a January 31 Zoom talk convened by the Office of the Vice Provost …
Brevia
Hailing from Harvard To fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, LL.B. ’60, President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, on March 16 nominated Merrick B. Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, District …
Issue: May-June 2016
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, …
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 …
Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary
Suzanne Glassburn, whom President Alan M. Garber described in a statement today as “a deeply experienced and widely respected senior university administrator,” has been appointed vice president and Secretary of the University. Glassburn formerly served in …
The End of the Harvard Square Pit
On a hot June afternoon, the Harvard Square Pit was quiet. In the submerged hangout spot beside the entrance to the MBTA’s Red Line station, pigeons outnumbered people even as commuters whizzed to and from work. Soon, these passersby will be staring at …
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“This Year Is Different…”
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay began her annual report for the 2020 academic and fiscal years, discussed today with colleagues at their regularly scheduled faculty meeting, by noting its conventional role as a reflection on the prior …
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
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 …
Striking Distance
Last May, when Eli Dershwitz ’18 (’19) turned in his finals and headed out of Cambridge for the summer, he was the top-ranked men’s saber fencer in the United States. When he returned to campus three months later, he was number one in the world. The time …
Issue: November-December 2018