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Harvard Renovated
Fall has come to campus , but the trees are not the only scenery that has changed in recent months. Harvard Magazine took advantage of some sunny days and walked through campus to prepare this update on Harvard’s new construction in Cambridge and Boston. …
Students Sue Harvard Over Harassment
In January, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced sanctions against John Comaroff, professor of anthropology and of African and African Americans studies, following two separate investigations into allegations of sexual harassment. Comaroff is …
Issue: May-June 2022
Voices Raised about Harvard
Editor’s note : President Alan M. Garber’s April 14 response to the Trump administration’s letter demanding sweeping changes in University governance and academic affairs has attracted unprecedented attention nationwide. It has also sparked an outpouring …
Harvard Staff to Return August 2
The University announced today that if conditions permit, the majority of remote workers will be authorized to return to campus on Monday, August 2—almost 17 months after the community dispersed in mid March 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic first spread. …
Research Clusters Seek Climate Solutions
What can be done about climate change , and how can Harvard mobilize its research and educational capacities to address the broad range of unfolding impacts? With an announcement on February 13 of five climate research cluster grants—interdisciplinary, …
Balloting Begins
The annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) begins today, and concludes May 18. Alongside the eight candidates for Overseer put forth through the HAA nominating process, a slate …
Paying Student-Athletes?
During the last two weekends, madness descended on basketball courts around the country. But while teams battled for the college basketball national championship, even more madness is taking place behind the scenes. In 2021, a pair of NCAA rule changes …
Renewing the News
… budget of $12 million, with plans to cover 18 regions by 2025. “We always were looking from the very beginning to …
Issue: January-February 2020
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
Jeremy Lin to Speak at Harvard College Class Day
Remember Linsanity? It’s returning to campus: Jeremy Lin ’10 , the Harvard basketball stalwart (he was captain his senior year) who became a phenomenon in the National Basketball Association (NBA)—which has few Asian American players—has been named …
The Elephant in the Room
Thursday nights, clops of dress shoes and clicks of high heels echo through the narrow streets of Harvard’s campus. Adjusting their ties and fixing their hair, members of the John Adams Society (JAS) descend on a House common room to examine life’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Short List
… to continue to investigate Clinton at least until the year 2025. The prospect of having a legal shadow over the …
The State of Harvard’s Arts and Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues issued their annual financial and other reports during an Election Day faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon, while also broaching other matters—among them, the desirability of students …
The Coronavirus Campus
As Harvard leaders— and their higher-education peers nationwide—make early-summer decisions about the academic year to come, they confront extraordinary uncertainties, with little useful guidance. The Great Recession and after were financial crises, …
Issue: July-August 2020
Somethings Old, Somethings New
Beyond doubt, Harvard knows how to stage awesome graduations—not just the spectacle of the Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre, but the class days, House and school celebrations, and more. The 371 st Commencement, by the University tally, …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet