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Where to Gift Your Grad
It’s been an unusual year for students, and graduates deserve a little bit of extra love. Happily, there are plenty of options in and around the Square to help them celebrate in the style they deserve, from wardrobe consults for that all-important job …
Issue: May-June 2021
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to Speak at Harvard Alumni Day
T he University’s inaugural Harvard Alumni Day will feature two-term U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94, who last year joined Harvard as professor of English and of African and African American studies and the Wallach professor at the Harvard Radcliffe …
Three Cheers
We’re proud to recognize three contributors to Harvard Magazine for outstanding work on readers’ behalf during 2022, and to confer a $1,000 honorarium on each. Lincoln Caplan Photograph by Susan L. Carney The McCord Writing Prize (honoring David T.W. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Voices Raised about Harvard
Editor’s note : President Alan M. Garber’s April 14 response to the Trump administration’s letter demanding sweeping changes in University governance and academic affairs has attracted unprecedented attention nationwide. It has also sparked an outpouring …
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, has been shadowed and shaped by the Holocaust. His mother, Ruth Wertheim, survived Auschwitz and, as he has related, arrived in the United States on the second Liberty Ship that brought …
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 …
Rakesh Khurana To Step Down
Rakesh Khurana announced Thursday that he is stepping down next June, making the 2024-25 academic year his last as dean of Harvard College. In a letter addressed to the University community, Khurana revealed that he had initially intended to depart this …
Katie Lapp Steps Down as Executive Vice President
On the morning of May 12, Katie Lapp, Harvard’s executive vice president since 2009, announced that she will be stepping down from her position at the end of the summer. Moving into her position will be Meredith Weenick ’90, M.B.A. ’02, the current vice …
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
Another Competitive Overseers’ Election Takes Shape
With the announcement today of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee’s candidates for the Board of Overseers, a second consecutive, competitive campaign for election to the governing board appears to be shaping up. Harvard Forward (HF) …
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
Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary
Suzanne Glassburn, whom President Alan M. Garber described in a statement today as “a deeply experienced and widely respected senior university administrator,” has been appointed vice president and Secretary of the University. Glassburn formerly served in …
The Unfinished Recovery
… to improve K-12 schooling, forthcoming in the March-April 2025 issue (online February 14). … 21454 … Post-pandemic …
Governing Games of Chance
Gambling goes back millennia, but today’s proliferation of mobile phones has transformed it into a nearly ubiquitous global commercial enterprise, with looming public health implications. “You’ve got your casino in your pocket 24-7,” observes Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2025
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