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Imaginary Peaks , by Katie Ives ’99 (Mountaineers Books, $26.95). Riffing on the infamous Riesenstein Hoax (about an unscaleable, indeed imaginary, set of peaks in British Columbia), and drawing on her concentration in literature and her M.F.A., the …
Issue: January-February 2022
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… a better individual to inspire the members of our class of 2025 as they contemplate their futures.” Read the University …
Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era
“Who here had any democratic input into ChatGPT?” Catherine D’Ignazio asked the audience at the Radcliffe Institute’s Knafel Center. “Nobody’s raising their hand, that’s strange,” she joked, looking out at the predominantly female crowd gathered for a …
September-October 2021
September-October 2021 … issue …
The Unfinished Recovery
… to improve K-12 schooling, forthcoming in the March-April 2025 issue (online February 14). … 21454 … Post-pandemic …
July-August 2021
July-August 2021 … issue …
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 …
At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds
This round-up is part of 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 the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …
November-December 2024
November-December 2024 … issue …
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
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, has been shadowed and shaped by the Holocaust. His mother, Ruth Wertheim, survived Auschwitz and, as he has related, arrived in the United States on the second Liberty Ship that brought …
May-June 2021
May-June 2021 … issue …
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 …
March-April 2021
March-April 2021 … issue …
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
During the 371 st Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate a small cohort of accomplished leaders, conferring honorary degrees in person on four women and two men: a prime minister, three distinguished scholars, a public-sector …