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January-February 2015
January-February 2015 … issue …
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 …
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 …
September-October 2024
September-October 2024 … issue …
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 …
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, …
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
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, famously dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to focus on building a new kind of software company. Fifty years later, this February 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation …
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
University Approves New Law School Shield
More than five years after the Harvard Corporation acceded to Harvard Law School’s decision to abandon its shield, associated with slavery , it has approved the school’s replacement. The new shield was developed by the HLS Shield Working Group, first …