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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 …
January-February 2021
January-February 2021 … issue …
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 …
Governing Games of Chance
Gambling goes back millennia, but today’s proliferation of mobile phones has transformed it into a nearly ubiquitous global commercial enterprise, with looming public health implications. “You’ve got your casino in your pocket 24-7,” observes Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
Arts and Engineering
Despite a recent media focus on campus protests and changes in institutional leadership, substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty growth in fields spanning both arts and sciences. …
Issue: March-April 2025
November-December 2020
November-December 2020 … issue …
Defending Civil Discourse on Campus
In early November 2015, an angry group of Yale students surrounded Nicholas Christakis M.D.'89, then master of Silliman residential college (and before then master of Pforzheimer House). Days earlier, his wife, Erika '86, a professor of childhood …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
September-October 2020
September-October 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 …
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 …