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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 …
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to Speak at Harvard Alumni Day
T he University’s inaugural Harvard Alumni Day will feature two-term U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94, who last year joined Harvard as professor of English and of African and African American studies and the Wallach professor at the Harvard Radcliffe …
Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future
“I really like things that, if they work, really matter—even if they don’t have a super high chance of working,” Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, told a crowd of students who packed Memorial Church to hear him speak on May 1. He explained what …
Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the 2024 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during the Harvard Alumni Day festivities on May 31. Scott A. Abell ’72 has been an alumni leader for the University for more than 30 years. His …
Where to Gift Your Grad
It’s been an unusual year for students, and graduates deserve a little bit of extra love. Happily, there are plenty of options in and around the Square to help them celebrate in the style they deserve, from wardrobe consults for that all-important job …
Issue: May-June 2021
Larry Bacow’s Parting Push
During a regularly scheduled conversation at his Massachusetts Hall office last week—the last such occasion for this magazine during his five-year tenure—President Lawrence S. Bacow conveyed a flavor of the University leader’s daily multitasking, while …
Harvard's New-Normal Financial Results
The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 and detailed in the annual financial report released today, in many ways mirrors the outcome of the prior year : Harvard again operated modestly in the black, following a couple of years of modest …
The Overseers’ Higher Profile
If past is prologue, last summer’s pandemic-delayed election of members of the Board of Overseers represents a significant challenge to the norms of Harvard governance. • Harvard Forward put forth a slate of five petition candidates for places on the …
Issue: March-April 2021
Two Harvardians Win MacArthur Fellowships
Two Harvard alumnae are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows announced today. Dorothy Roberts, J.D. ’80, is a legal scholar and public policy researcher who studies racial inequality in health and social service systems. A faculty member at the University of …
Overseer Candidates’ Harvard Priorities
G iven the important role members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—play in assuring the institution’s academic quality and securing its future, Harvard Magazine asked each nominated candidate to answer these …
Harvard Forms Committee on Renaming Principles
President Lawrence S. Bacow today announced formation of a Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming that will, according to a news announcement, “help guide consideration of questions about renaming campus buildings, spaces, programs, …
A Right Way to Read?
Reading didn’t come naturally for Abigail, a seventh grader at a public middle school in Cambridge. “It was challenging when I started early on, when I was in kindergarten, learning the ABCs,” she remembers. English is her second language, Arabic her …
Issue: September-October 2024
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in her youth (“My Brief Career in Reality Television”) to tell the community something about herself, her academic trajectory, and her …
At Home with Harvard: Racial Justice
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, …
Why Aid Cuts Didn’t End Worker Shortages
When the COVID-19 pandemic triggered global economic turmoil, including the layoffs of millions of U.S. workers, legislators responded in unprecedented ways through the CARES Act of 2020, which dramatically expanded unemployment benefits. “At the …
Issue: July-August 2022