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In 1995, a typical home in the Boston metropolitan area could be had for about $165,000. Today, the same home would cost more than $714,000. For someone taking out a conventional fixed-rate 30-year mortgage, the monthly carrying costs (assuming a 10 …
Issue: November-December 2024
Reconstructing the Berlin Wall
Growing up in Northampton, Massachusetts, novelist David Leo Rice ’10 sensed there was something lurking beneath the surface of things. Meandering through the aisles of his local video store, he was convinced the VHS tapes were portals to other worlds. At …
Issue: July-August 2025
Unionizing Harvard Academic Workers
After a yearlong public campaign —and the three years of quiet organizing that preceded it—non-tenure-track faculty and other academic employees will vote on April 3 and 4 whether to form a union. Calling for higher wages, better job security, and …
Public Health with Empathy
W hen Ophelia Dahl was 18, she traveled from her home in the English countryside to poverty-stricken Haiti. In rural Haiti, she witnessed conditions that she described as “positively medieval”: little access to water, poor housing conditions, and rampant …
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 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 …
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Columbia 24
Guess who is in first place in the Ivy League, with its destiny in its hands? Harvard, that’s who. With a 38-24 defeat of Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson, which entered the game ranked No. 19 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), rose to 7-1 …
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
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 …
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 …
Off the Shelf
… but don’t want to invest in a Harvard M.B.A. (2024-2025 estimated cost of attendance for a married student …
Issue: September-October 2024
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
September-October 2024
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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 …
“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 …