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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, …
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation
Harvard today released its 2022 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Brevia
Class Day Creativity On Wednesday afternoon, May 27, M.Arch. candidates from the Design School who were still in town arranged themselves on the (otherwise deserted) Widener steps for an impromptu class photo (above): the first with social-distancing …
Issue: July-August 2020
July-August 2020
July-August 2020 … issue …
Crimson’s Mr. Green
Rob Gogan, Harvard’s recycling and waste manager, retired in October, having long done more than anyone else to instill a culture of waste-reduction, reuse (of furniture, for example), recycling, and composting throughout the University. Helped by friends …
Issue: January-February 2021
May-June 2020
May-June 2020 … issue …
Rakesh Khurana To Step Down
Rakesh Khurana announced Thursday that he is stepping down next June, making the 2024-25 academic year his last as dean of Harvard College. In a letter addressed to the University community, Khurana revealed that he had initially intended to depart this …
March-April 2020
March-April 2020 … issue …
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
In the mid 1990s Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. ’84, was raising money for the Harvard libraries during a capital campaign as a member of the FAS development team. She recalls people saying, “‘But libraries are going to disappear. Nobody uses libraries anymore …
Issue: March-April 2025
Ruth Simmons to Join Harvard as Senior Adviser
T his morning, Harvard announced that Ruth Simmons, Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02,will join the University as senior adviser to the president on engagement with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Set to begin June 1, her role will focus on …
January-February 2020
January-February 2020 … issue …
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
College Admits 13.9 Percent of Early Applicants
The College has admitted 13.9 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2024, up slightly from 13.4 percent admitted from that pool last year. Of the 6,424 students who applied early to the 2024 class, 895 were admitted. The numbers were 935 and …
Claudine Gay Named Harvard’s Thirtieth President
C laudine Gay —dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2018—will become the thirtieth president of Harvard University on July 1. The announcement of her election by the Harvard Corporation, with the consent of the Board of Overseers earlier …
Defending Civil Discourse on Campus
In early November 2015, an angry group of Yale students surrounded Nicholas Christakis M.D.'89, then master of Silliman residential college (and before then master of Pforzheimer House). Days earlier, his wife, Erika '86, a professor of childhood …