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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 …
November-December 2024
November-December 2024 … issue …
Harvard Alumni Day Debuts
To the tune of bagpipes , crashing cymbals, and horns, University alumni paraded into Tercentenary Theatre for the first- stand-alone Alumni Day. The event honored the global Harvard community, particularly alumni attending reunions this year, from class …
Adams House Advances
During a forum with Adams House residents on February 19, Nathaniel Rogers ’05, a project architect from Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB), reviewed the plans drawn to date for the three-phase renewal of the 450-student residence, beginning this summer (when …
Harvard’s Endowment Outlook—Updated
UPDATED October 14, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. MIT reported an endowment investment return of 55.5 percent for fiscal 2021, and a 49.0 percent increase in the endowment’s year-end value, to $27.4 billion. Updated September 14, 2021, at 7:40 p.m. As an early …
Increasing Access
Harvard Magazine has long published commentaries from the president on matters that are timely and relevant to the life of the University. In an era of rapid news cycles, it can be challenging to craft copy that made sense given the long lead times for …
July-August 2020
July-August 2020 … issue …
Efficiency and Productivity in the Academy
Speaking at the February 1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting—two years to the day from the detection of the first Massachusetts case of COVID-19—Dr. Giang Nguyen, executive director of the University Health Services, disclosed an astonishing fact about …
Issue: May-June 2022
President Alan M. Garber Welcoming Remarks and Convocation Address
As delivered Welcome, members of the Harvard College Class of 2028. Welcome from every continent save Antarctica. Welcome from each state in the Union—and from DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Like me, fifty-seven of you hail from the Land of …
May-June 2020
May-June 2020 … issue …
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
D uring the 372nd Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate six distinguished leaders, conferring honorary degrees on four men and two women: • a pair of life-sciences leaders (including an alumna who is a Nobel laureate); • a two-time Pulitzer …
“Armenian creativity, culture, and survival”
In 1207 an elderly scribe in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia completed the Garabed Gospel. Although blinded by the 11-year undertaking, he completed the 250 inked, goat-skin pages, with decorative marginalia, at a monastery near what is now southern …
Issue: January-February 2022
March-April 2020
March-April 2020 … issue …
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
This is How Universities Die
… If American universities remain the envy of the world in 2025, the question must be: for how long? … 27509 … Higher …