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Football 2023: Harvard 38-Columbia 24
Guess who is in first place in the Ivy League, with its destiny in its hands? Harvard, that’s who. With a 38-24 defeat of Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson, which entered the game ranked No. 19 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), rose to 7-1 …
Harvard’s Endowment Outlook—Updated
UPDATED October 14, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. MIT reported an endowment investment return of 55.5 percent for fiscal 2021, and a 49.0 percent increase in the endowment’s year-end value, to $27.4 billion. Updated September 14, 2021, at 7:40 p.m. As an early …
Harvard Presidential Search Committees Named
As the search for a successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow gathers momentum, following the announcement on July 7 that it had formally begun , faculty and staff advisory committees were unveiled today; a third committee, of students drawn from across …
Trade Cards in the Age of Invention
In the United States, the late nineteenth century was an age of invention. Machines for sewing and laundering clothes heralded relief from domestic drudgery. Packaged foods, including tinned meats and breads, made their mass-market debut, and patent …
Issue: July-August 2021
A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech
Ordinarily , a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean might be expected to devote herself to learning about colleagues’ work, en route to formulating an agenda for investment in new academic priorities and planning how to secure the financial …
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Astronomy agenda. The next-generation, 24.5-meter (aperture) Giant Magellan Telescope—supported by a 13-member consortium of universities and science institutions, prominently including Harvard—has been recommended for federal support as part of the U.S. …
Issue: January-February 2022
Public Health with Empathy
W hen Ophelia Dahl was 18, she traveled from her home in the English countryside to poverty-stricken Haiti. In rural Haiti, she witnessed conditions that she described as “positively medieval”: little access to water, poor housing conditions, and rampant …
Commencement 372 7/8
During the baccalaureate in Tercentenary Theatre on Tuesday, May 21, interim president Alan M. Garber told the class of 2024, “On Thursday, we of divergent minds will process together into this space.” Come May 23 , perhaps with a sense of premonition, he …
Issue: July-August 2024
Write It!
Why not carve out time for a writing retreat through The Muse & The Marketplace? Organized by Boston’s nonprofit creative-writing center Grub Street, the annual conference is held online this year during two April sessions. During week one, April 21-25, …
Issue: March-April 2021
Seeing Methane from Space
Harvard scientists are tackling a major climate change challenge: targeting emissions of methane, a gas with a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but 80 times the warming potential. With a privately funded globe-spanning satellite …
News in Brief
Acting on the Slavery Report Two recent appointments advance actions recommended by the report on the University and the legacy of slavery (see “ Harvard’s Ties to Slavery ,” July-August 2022, page 22). Professor of public health policy Sara N. Bleich is …
Issue: January-February 2023
Alumni Day with Mary Louise Kelly
At the second annual Alumni Day, when reunion classes and other alumni return to Cambridge—10,000 strong, reportedly—there was music, oratory, and food aplenty. The mood was festive for this first fully post-pandemic 153 rd meeting of the Harvard Alumni …
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