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Faculty Room Facelift
The Faculty Room, the soaring second-floor space at the center of University Hall—designed by Charles Bulfinch, A.B. 1781 (who provided his services in exchange for tuition payments for son Thomas, class of 1814—an early legacy!) and completed in 1815—is …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Art of the Dean
When she assumed the office in August 2018, Claudine Gay was unusually well prepared to become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She knew the faculty as a student (Ph.D. ’98), professor (arriving in 2006, after six years at Stanford), and …
Issue: September-October 2021
Nicole Maestas
During Nicole Maestas’s Napa Valley childhood, everything was grapes. Though her father worked in the wine finance business, the future MacArthur professor of economics and health care policy showed interest in neither farming nor money. At Wellesley …
Issue: July-August 2025
Finding Harvard’s Next President
N ow that President Lawrence S. Bacow has announced his plan to step down at the end of the next academic year, by June 30, 2023, how will the University go about soliciting candidates to succeed him? Formally, the Harvard Corporation elects the …
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“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. …
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, …
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, …
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
Unionizing Harvard Academic Workers
After a yearlong public campaign —and the three years of quiet organizing that preceded it—non-tenure-track faculty and other academic employees will vote on April 3 and 4 whether to form a union. Calling for higher wages, better job security, and …