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The Interim President’s Agenda
Alan M. Garber ’77, Ph.D. ’82, physician and economist, provost since September 2011 , unexpectedly became interim president January 2 , when President Claudine Gay resigned. The shift in physical offices was trivial: a right turn, rather than a left in …
Harvard Coop’s Changing of the Guard
The Harvard Coop announced today that CEO Jerry Murphy ’73, M.B.A. ’77, will retire on September 1, concluding a Harvard Square career that began when he joined the historic retailer in 1991 after earlier experience at Neiman Marcus. He will be succeeded …
How Many Undergraduates Are at Harvard Now?
With classes resumed on January 25, the College today reported preliminar y tallies for undergraduates enrolled and in residence for this pandemic-affected spring semester. •As of today, 5,227 undergraduates are enrolled (compared to a usual cohort of …
Wrapping Up Harvard’s Winter Sports
Basketball It was an unusual scene on March 13: a Yale-Princeton battle for the Ivy League basketball title—at Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson men had lost to the host of the Ivy League tournament in their last two appearances—and missed out this …
Issue: May-June 2022
Ivy League Cancels Winter Season
With COVID-19 cases rising across the country, the Ivy League has canceled its winter athletic season. The statement by the Ivy League Council of Presidents, released yesterday, also noted that fall sports will not be conducted during the upcoming spring …
The “Dangers and Duties that Lie Ahead”
“American higher education is endangered,” declared Porter University Professor and Harvard president emerita Drew Gilpin Faust during a forceful oration Tuesday morning at the 232nd Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre that was …
Post-COVID Learning Losses
In education, the post-COVID “return to normal” has been anything but straightforward. In fact, striving for a pre-pandemic status quo, Harvard and Stanford experts say, will perpetuate inequality and neglect the pressing educational gaps affecting …
At Home with Harvard: Pride Month
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 the climate crisis, racial justice, health and fitness, and …
Dementias Linked to Air Pollution
Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other dementias are linked to air pollution, new research finds, adding neurological degeneration to the growing list of effects attributable to fine particles . A study of 63 million adults older than 65 in the United …
Endowment Enigmas
During the past two decades , this magazine has covered Harvard scholars’ research on global warming and how to contend with climate change. For nearly a decade, it has reported on the advocacy by students, faculty members, and alumni for divestment of …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard College Invites Seniors, Most Juniors to Campus for Spring Term
After a fall term during which just 23 percent of undergraduates—primarily first-year students—were in residence, Harvard College will invite a maximum of 3,100 students (about half the total) to be in residence for the spring semester, beginning January …
Overseer Candidates State Their Views
In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards— Harvard Magazine asked each nominated candidate to answer these questions: • What are the most important …
College Conversers
Sipping organic turmeric ginger tea and munching crumbly cookies, seven students gathered in the Leverett Senior Common Room to talk, as they do each week. Their group size and discussion topics vary, as do their invited faculty guests. Members of the …
Issue: January-February 2025
Finishing Kick
Lawrence S. Bacow regularly ran marathons when he was Tufts president, and conducted an interview with a Crimson reporter while splashing along Memorial Drive on the wet Marathon Monday before he took office as Harvard’s leader in 2018. He no longer …
American Jewish Life After October 7
Monday marked a year since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which ignited a war in the Middle East and a wave of pro-Palestine protests on American college campuses. Several campus events marked the anniversary, including a pair of discussions at the …