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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, …
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 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 …
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
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 …
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
President Garber’s Quiet Installation
Harvard presidential installation ceremonies typically take place in Tercentenary Theatre, attended by thousands. These are not typical times—but certain traditions must nevertheless be observed. In that spirit, a small, private celebration, which …
Five Questions with Professor Peter Der Manuelian
Bell professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian has been teaching and researching at Harvard since 2010, when he became the University’s first full-time Egyptologist since 1942 (read more in our 2011 Portrait here ). He also serves as the director of the …
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 …
Sister Acts and Cyanotypes
On a Zoom call from her basement studio in early May, New York-based painter Julia Rooney ’11 shows me a part of a project she’s finishing—a series of camera-less photographic prints called cyanotypes. Developed in the mid-1800s, the cyanotype process …
Issue: July-August 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
The Enterprise Research Campus, Part Two
Tishman Speyer, the development partner that is building an Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston on property leased from Harvard, took the first step toward construction of the second phase (phase B) of that project on April 16. With the submission …
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 …
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
Harvard Education School Dean Appointed
The University has appointed Nonie K. Lesaux, Larsen professor of education and human development, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She has served as interim dean since July, succeeding Saris professor of education and economics …