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Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine
Harvard Medical School professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun , Ph.D. ’82, has been named co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester. The scientists were …
Unionizing Harvard Academic Workers
After a yearlong public campaign —and the three years of quiet organizing that preceded it—non-tenure-track faculty and other academic employees will vote on April 3 and 4 whether to form a union. Calling for higher wages, better job security, and …
Hearing the Faculty’s Voice
Although the campus is far calmer this fall than last , differences of opinion about Harvard’s direction and leadership continue to divide the governing boards and senior administrators from some significant portion of the faculties. Recent actions by the …
Arts and Sciences’ New Look
At its first faculty meeting of the year, on October 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) debuted its new look and new leader. As announced last March by President Lawrence S. Bacow, the University’s leader will no longer chair FAS meetings —a …
Yesterday’s News
1915 Commencement Day events include the formal presentation of Widener Memorial Library to the University—and an undergraduate oration by Edward Estlin (“e.e.”) Cummings ’15. 1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University …
Issue: May-June 2025
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
Fostering Civil Discourse
After a tumultuous fall 2023 semester , Harvard turned its attention toward difficult conversations. How can students feel comfortable discussing controversial events? Why are students reluctant to express disagreement in and out of the classroom? In …
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 …
When Technology and Society Clash
… And it’s why her forthcoming book, to be released in 2025 and focused on how society can maintain the benefits of …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Enterprise Research Campus, Part Two
Tishman Speyer, the development partner that is building an Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston on property leased from Harvard, took the first step toward construction of the second phase (phase B) of that project on April 16. With the submission …
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 29
FRIDAY MAY 29 is Radcliffe Day, and this year’s festivities will include the panel “A Decade of Decisions and Dissents: The Roberts Court, from 2005 to Today,” moderated by Margaret H. Marshall Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78 at 10:30 A.M. The Radcliffe Day …
Views from the Top
During a meeting on April 15—Good Friday, and before the first Passover seder he celebrates with family friends—President Lawrence S. Bacow said he was pursuing the “balance between managing the crisis du jour and what I call playing long ball”: advancing …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Forward Candidates Gain Place on Overseers’ Ballot
Harvard Forward has announced that its three petition candidates have collected enough signatures to qualify for the balloting for the Board of Overseers this spring—and that the nomiating signatures have been validated by the University. The deadline for …
2015 Harvard Overseer and HAA Director Nominees
This spring, alumni can vote for five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by April 1, must be received back in Cambridge by noon on May 22 to be counted. Election results will …
At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …