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Forrest Gander and Theda Skocpol at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
“It’s tremendously exciting to have this celebration back,” said Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt professor of physics, welcoming the audience at Sanders Theatre to the 230 th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises on Tuesday morning, after a three-year …
Harvard Forward Candidates Gain Place on Overseers’ Ballot
Harvard Forward has announced that its three petition candidates have collected enough signatures to qualify for the balloting for the Board of Overseers this spring—and that the nomiating signatures have been validated by the University. The deadline for …
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
Defeating the Darkness
Editor’s note: Brian Palmer ’86, Ph.D. ’00, a social anthropologist and scholar of religion at Uppsala University in Sweden, submitted this piece of his family’s history. In the 1950s, Ina (John) Bonnell was the librarian of Harvard’s burgeoning Russian …
Issue: March-April 2025
Lawsuit Alleges Harvard Mishandled Harassment Complaints
Hundreds of students joined a campus demonstration Monday afternoon in support of three graduate students who recently filed suit against the University, claiming Harvard downplayed or ignored their sexual-harassment complaints against John Comaroff, …
Rakesh Khurana To Step Down
Rakesh Khurana announced Thursday that he is stepping down next June, making the 2024-25 academic year his last as dean of Harvard College. In a letter addressed to the University community, Khurana revealed that he had initially intended to depart this …
At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway
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 previous selections, featuring articles about income inequality, racial justice, immigration, …
Harvard Football Goes Bowling
As the clock ticked to zero this past November 23, hundreds of Yale fans jumped over the wall separating Harvard Stadium’s bleachers from its field. Despite securing a share of the Ivy League championship, Crimson footballers were left with this bitter …
Harvard Commencement to Be Virtual Again
President Lawrence S. Bacow informed the community this morning that degree-conferring exercises for the class of 2021 will again be virtual, building upon the experience of the 369 th Commencement last spring, after the coronavirus pandemic emptied …
Border Crossing
The story came to him the night he became a father. Author Rudy Ruiz ’90, M.P.P. ’93, had known since college that he wanted to write a novel, but he felt like he needed more life experience first. “When the time is right,” he told himself, “the idea will …
Issue: January-February 2022
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
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 …
Arts and Sciences’ New Look
At its first faculty meeting of the year, on October 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) debuted its new look and new leader. As announced last March by President Lawrence S. Bacow, the University’s leader will no longer chair FAS meetings —a …
Their “Last Shot”
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Hanging from the rafters of Lavietes Pavilion are 11 banners that read “WOMEN,” each a permanent memento of an Ivy League Championship that head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith and her teams have …
Henry Rosovsky Memorial Service May 31
P resident Lawrence S. Bacow has invited the Harvard community to remember and celebrate Henry Rosovsky, who died last November. Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98, an exemplary Harvard citizen and a towering intellect, was Geyser University Professor …