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Commencement 372 7/8
During the baccalaureate in Tercentenary Theatre on Tuesday, May 21, interim president Alan M. Garber told the class of 2024, “On Thursday, we of divergent minds will process together into this space.” Come May 23 , perhaps with a sense of premonition, he …
Issue: July-August 2024
A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech
Ordinarily , a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean might be expected to devote herself to learning about colleagues’ work, en route to formulating an agenda for investment in new academic priorities and planning how to secure the financial …
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
Harvard at the Olympics
As most students wrap up summer internships, 26 of their fellow Harvardians are spending two weeks in Paris vying for the world’s most prestigious sporting titles. Crimson athletes competed in events ranging from fencing and field hockey to sailing and …
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 …
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 …
Commencement Confetti
Affinities Affirmed There are now eight University-wide affinity group celebrations on the Monday and Tuesday preceding Commencement proper. Student groups honored graduates representing LGBTQ+; Black; Indigenous; Latinx; Arab; and Asian American, Pacific …
Issue: July-August 2023
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 …
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
On March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced that the annual voting for new Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), ordinarily running from April through mid May, would be postponed until early …
Issue: July-August 2020
Small-Town Roots
Small-town Professors. Faculty members at elite institutions like this one are commonly thought of as a sleek breed. But their origins sometimes are, or at least were, humble, and far from cutting-edge. Two memorial minutes presented to the Faculty of …
Issue: January-February 2022
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
On March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced that the annual voting for new Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), ordinarily running from April through mid May, would be postponed until early …
Issue: May-June 2020
Three Cheers
We’re proud to recognize three contributors to Harvard Magazine for outstanding work on readers’ behalf during 2022, and to confer a $1,000 honorarium on each. Lincoln Caplan Photograph by Susan L. Carney The McCord Writing Prize (honoring David T.W. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Jeremy Lin and Elizabeth Warren Highlight Class Days
Following yesterday’s Baccalaureate and separate graduations , the College today held its Class Day—as did other schools across the University—and recognized Harvard’s 2021 ROTC contingent. A year after (remotely) welcoming Conan O’Brien ’85 to speak …
Juliet Isselbacher , Jacob Sweet , Jean Martin
Football: Harvard 35-Stetson 0
For the Harvard football team, the kickoff to its 150th season and to the Andrew Aurich era couldn’t have gone better. But the 35-0 plastering of overmatched Stetson before a sparse assemblage at a dank and drippy Harvard Stadium on Saturday does not …
Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the highest honor …
Issue: July-August 2020