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Her Campus Pulls Off “Epic” Virtual Graduation
“The class of 2020 is the class of resilience, the class of changemakers,” said Her Campus founders Stephanie Kaplan Lewis ’10, Annie Wang ’10, and Windsor Hanger Western ’10 as they introduced their live virtual graduation last Friday for any young woman …
Why Aid Cuts Didn’t End Worker Shortages
When the COVID-19 pandemic triggered global economic turmoil, including the layoffs of millions of U.S. workers, legislators responded in unprecedented ways through the CARES Act of 2020, which dramatically expanded unemployment benefits. “At the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Is Harvard Antisemitic?
When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and destruction—and also inflamed American prejudice on ethnic and religious grounds. Within hours, allegations of such bias came to Harvard. A hasty October 7 student letter …
Faith through Film
Among a sea of black hats, Salvador Alexander Litvak ’87 sported a white fedora. His color palette was not the only thing setting him apart from the 92,000 revelers at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium who gathered in August 2012 to celebrate Jewish text …
Issue: May-June 2025
Unsound Sleep
The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 survey found that 75 percent of American adults experience symptoms of a sleep problem at least a few nights per week. Sleep clinics like Sleep Health Centers, a for-profit enterprise whose medical director, David P. …
Issue: July-August 2005
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 Fighting Pencil
Say it once and it sounds like a tongue-twister. Say it again and it sounds like an oxymoron: “Soviet state-sponsored anti-bureaucracy propaganda posters.” It’s still a tongue-twister, but on closer inspection, it’s less of an oxymoron than you might …
Issue: March-April 2022
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s 373 rd Commencement exercises, scheduled for …
“Stay in Your Cocoon!”
It was inevitable that the Harvard College “Celebration of the Class of 2020” would be unlike any other Class Day in Harvard’s history. Instead of spreading out in Harvard Yard, College graduates would spread out at home on couches and beds, watching …
Harvard’s Year That Was
… course offerings, changes in the student handbook for 2024-2025, and a revamping of the policies governing doctoral …
President Bacow and Kevin Young at Annual Alumni Meeting
F ollowing the second pandemic-induced virtual graduation exercises , on May 27, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) conducted its annual meeting this year, also virtually , on June 4, in keeping with its plan announced late last year. The event anchored …
Lydialyle Gibson , Juliet Isselbacher
Hearing the Faculty’s Voice
Although the campus is far calmer this fall than last , differences of opinion about Harvard’s direction and leadership continue to divide the governing boards and senior administrators from some significant portion of the faculties. Recent actions by the …
Harvard Management Company Undertakes Sweeping Change
The new president of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.P. Narvekar , who assumed responsibility for investing the endowment only last December 5, after overseeing Columbia University’s investment operations, today announced sweeping changes in the …
“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. …
Axim Online Education Venture Debuts
T wenty-one months after co-founders Harvard and MIT agreed to sell their edX online-learning venture to 2U , a for-profit course manager, the successor nonprofit organization has a new name, leader, and strategy to go with the $700 million or so in net …