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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Envisions Its Future
E nlisting its members’ intellects and capabilities, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is pursuing an unprecedented effort to envision and realize its academic future. Dean Claudine Gay’s FAS Study Group (FSG), chartered in November 2020 to consider …
Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today announced the recipients of the 2022 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during the Harvard Alumni Day celebration on June 3. Avarita L. Hanson ’75 has been an energetic supporter of Harvard for more than …
Diversifying the Faculties
A decade ago , more than two-thirds of tenured professors and nearly one-half of tenure-track professors at Harvard were white men. Since then, the composition of the faculty has evolved considerably, most notably among tenured professors: 25.8 percent …
Issue: July-August 2017
Henry Rosovsky Memorial Service May 31
P resident Lawrence S. Bacow has invited the Harvard community to remember and celebrate Henry Rosovsky, who died last November. Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98, an exemplary Harvard citizen and a towering intellect, was Geyser University Professor …
“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 …
The Future of Teaching
During two and a half pandemic semesters, instruction throughout the University first pivoted online, and then, after the summer of 2020, evolved into more sophisticated, engaging forms of Zoom-based teaching and some hybrid classes at the Business School …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Evolutionary Case for Exercise
What role does exercise play in shaping the health of our brains and bodies? For Lerner professor of biological sciences Daniel Lieberman , the answer lies in our distant past. In his scholarship, Lieberman has explored how the arc of human natural …
Harvard Borrowing Goes Green
The University yesterday issued $500 million in new bonds: not an everyday occurrence, but completely within the normal bounds of financial management for an enterprise with annual revenues exceeding $5 billion, debt outstanding of $5.5 billion, and an …
At Home with Harvard: Crimson Sports Illustrated
This is the tenth 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 …
More “Cooperative” Than “Corporate”
“Nurture, non-selfishness , and the real importance of grassroots organizing”—that was how moderator Jacqueline Bhabha summed up a wide-ranging panel discussion Friday morning about the role of women as leaders in global health. The opening event of …
“It’s Tournament Time”
Last Tuesday, with just over three minutes left in the game, the Harvard women’s basketball team was pummeling Dartmouth 71-43, but judging by the Crimson’s aggressive defense, one might have thought the Ivy title was at stake. Delaney-Smith coach Carrie …
Five Questions with Professor Jia Liu
Assistant professor of bioengineering Jia Liu received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard in 2014 and then completed postdoctoral research at Stanford from 2015 to 2018. He joined the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in …