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The Yard Libraries, Reimagined
Looking toward the University’s four-hundredth anniversary in 2036, the Harvard Library has conducted a feasibility study for the renovations of Widener, Lamont, Pusey, and Houghton libraries. The study, conducted during the 2022-2023 academic year, …
Issue: July-August 2024
Football: Harvard 28-New Hampshire 23
Harvard football fans might have been permitted a sinking feeling of déjà vu during the fourth quarter at the Stadium last Friday night. The opponent had just scored to cut the home team’s lead to 28-23 and now the Crimson offense was charged with running …
“Shopping Week” Extended
Harvard College students’ cherished “shopping week”—for sampling classes at the start of each term before registering formally—may not have nine lives, but it has attained at least a second or third—albeit with a possibly significant modification. …
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin ’89 always notices the hands: how they move when a person speaks, where they come to rest, whether they’re folded or open, fidgety or quiet, how they cradle the chin or fall into the lap or reach out across a table. For a portrait painter …
Issue: November-December 2021
Katie Lapp Steps Down as Executive Vice President
On the morning of May 12, Katie Lapp, Harvard’s executive vice president since 2009, announced that she will be stepping down from her position at the end of the summer. Moving into her position will be Meredith Weenick ’90, M.B.A. ’02, the current vice …
Virtual Graduation 2.0
Anyone who worked remotely during the past 16 months knows that doing business digitally is fast and productive . More evidence came during “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021,” on May 27: the second COVID-era virtual graduation program (minus 30,000 …
Issue: July-August 2021
Timely Recovery
Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a 7.3 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. The endowment’s value on that date was $41.9 billion: up $1.0 billion (2.4 percent) from $40.9 billion a year earlier . In a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
On Tuesday , former women’s hockey coach Katey Stone, who retired 13 months ago in the wake of fierce complaints from former players about emotional abuse, filed a lawsuit against Harvard in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleging gender …
Over the River Dept.
Branding. Even when at play, apparently, the M.B.A.s-to-be at Harvard Business School (HBS) are also at work. The lawn between the spiffy Klarman Hall (HBS’s terrific conference facility) and the Schwartz Pavilion (for covered outdoor lounging) is …
Issue: March-April 2023
An Academic Agenda
Over a coffee in Harvard Square on a damp August morning—the lull before what he feared might be another stormy academic year—a senior administrator outlined three priorities for restoring the University’s moorings. First came refocusing on the academic …
Issue: November-December 2024
Elena Rodriguez Steps Up
In early December, the Harvard women’s basketball team was leading Michigan by one point at the end of the first quarter, when the Crimson’s star point guard Harmoni Turner ’25 brought the ball across half court. Discarding a defender with a crossover …
New Dean for Public Health
Andrea Baccarelli , an environmental health sciences scholar, will become dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) on January 1, 2024. An expert in the molecular mechanisms that link environmental exposures to human disease, he …
The Student Commencement Speakers
The 372nd Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 25, will feature the three traditional student speakers. This year’s orators, selected in a University-wide competition, are Josiah Meadows ’23, Pallas Chou ’23, and Vic Hogg, M.P.P. ’23. Updated May 25, …
Faculty Senate Debate Continued
During an unusual special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on May 14, members continued the prior week’s lively, engaged discussion of whether to join efforts to explore a University-wide faculty senate . Opinion on the specific proposal …
Five Questions with Paris Olympian Graham Blanks ’25
runner graham blanks '25 spoke about his experience earning a New Balance sponsorship in the November-December feature " The End of the Ivy League? " Harvard Magazine asked the economics and philosophy concentrator from Athens, Georgia, who placed ninth …