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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 …
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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
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 …
John Manning Appointed Interim Provost
Alan M. Garber, Harvard’s interim president since January 2 , today announced that John F. Manning, dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2017 , will serve as interim provost beginning March 14. Carter professor of general jurisprudence John C.P. …
Alumnus Robert B. Wilson and Paul Milgrom Share 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics
Robert B. Wilson ’59, M.B.A. ’61, D.B.A. ’63, and his former Stanford doctoral student Paul R. Milgrom have been awarded the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of …
New Traditions
A place 388 years young naturally has lots of traditions. Yet it keeps adding new ones. Among the latter is the first-year convocation, held for the sixteenth time this September 2. Among the former is Morning Prayers, dating from the founding in 1636 and …
Issue: November-December 2024
Regearing Ph.D. Education
The acronymically burdened final report of the GAGE working group (GSAS Admissions and Graduate Education), released early in the fall semester, is in fact a vigorous and urgent overview of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ intellectually central Ph.D. …
Issue: January-February 2024
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
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 …
Parkes Named Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
David C. Parkes , Colony professor of computer science, will become dean of Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on October 15. An expert in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to design efficient …
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 …
The Boston Camerata Turns 70
… Tero Saarinen (slated to be performed in Europe in 2025-26). More recently, the ensemble has developed programs … will be performed at Boston’s Old West Church on April 27, 2025. Among Boston Camerata’s best-known sources is the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Fond Farewell
In 1966, John T. Bethell ’54 became the editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin —then a competent, if staid, small-circulation magazine published 17 times annually. In an efflorescence of editorial vision and talent, he and a small cohort of superb …
Issue: May-June 2025