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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 College to Accommodate 40 Percent of Students Each Semester
About 40 percent of Harvard undergraduates—entering first-year students, and those who cannot learn successfully in their current home environment—will be permitted to be in residence for the fall semester, effecting a sharply de-densified experience …
Behind the Scenes: Writing what only I can write
THERE’S A QUOTE MY FORMER WRITING PROFESSOR LOVES, from Isaac Bashevis Singer: “I only write what only I can write.” I keep that quote on a sticky note near my desk. Of course, as a journalist, I don’t always get to choose exactly which topics I write …
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
Jeff Lichtman Appointed Dean of Science
Jeff Lichtman , a neuroscientist who is Knowles professor of molecular and cellular biology and Cajal professor of arts and sciences, has been appointed divisional dean of science within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. Hopi Hoekstra, …
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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
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, famously dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to focus on building a new kind of software company. Fifty years later, this February 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation …
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 …
At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
This is the ninth installment in 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 Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, famous and …
The End of the Ivy League?
With one minute left in Harvard’s last men’s basketball game of the 2023-2024 season, sophomore Chisom Okpara drove toward the basket, leaped, and released the ball. It clanked off the rim back into his hands. On the second attempt, he made the shot, his …
Issue: November-December 2024
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Datar for Dean Srikant M. Datar, Dickinson professor of business administration, has been named dean of Harvard Business School, effective January 1, succeeding Nitin Nohria, who had led the school since 2010. Since joining the faculty in 1996, Datar has …
Issue: January-February 2021
Brenda Tindal Named Inaugural Chief Campus Curator
After a national search, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has appointed Brenda Tindal the inaugural chief campus curator, beginning February 13. Tindal—who has been the executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) since May …
Installation Academics
The half-dozen academic symposiums convened this morning as an intellectual prelude to Claudine Gay’s installation as Harvard’s thirtieth president covered a broad spectrum of disciplines, knit together by a pair of common themes. In her remarks last …
College Yield Drops 3 Percent During COVID-19
The College’s yield for the class of 2024 , or the share of admitted students who indicated that they will attend Harvard, has dropped from 84 percent on May 1 to 81 percent, according to a University announcement made today. Some students have deferred …
“We Urgently Must Do More”
Harvard celebrated the launch of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability on Wednesday, October 26, with a symposium at the Radcliffe Institute that illustrated both the breadth of climate-change impacts, and the University’s educational and …