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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 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, …
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
Seeing Methane from Space
Harvard scientists are tackling a major climate change challenge: targeting emissions of methane, a gas with a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but 80 times the warming potential. With a privately funded globe-spanning satellite …
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha, M.Arch. ’08, first started thinking about Walter the crocodile sometime in 2020. COVID-19 had shut down much of the world, and she was at home with her children, who were then two and four. “It was a very intense time,” she says. Work and …
Issue: May-June 2025
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Made in Germany
Disorienting and unexpected , a white room with a checkered carpet is turned sideways: tables are bound to the wall, and the wall lies at viewers’ feet. This room, collapsed and contorted, symbolizes the home within a collapsed East German state. The …
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 …
Vote Now
This spring , alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. The slates appear below, in ballot order as determined by lot. Read Overseer nominees’ thoughts on the Board’s role and challenges …
Issue: May-June 2021
Caring for Your Heart
Heart disease kills more Americans every year than all cancers combined. Yet a cancer diagnosis prompts immediate action and mobilizes families, said Ami Bhatt ’96, one of a panel of heart disease experts who spoke at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of …
A Right Way to Read?
Reading didn’t come naturally for Abigail, a seventh grader at a public middle school in Cambridge. “It was challenging when I started early on, when I was in kindergarten, learning the ABCs,” she remembers. English is her second language, Arabic her …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard Study: EPA’s Fine-Particle Pollution Standards May Be Too Loose
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s standards for particulate-matter pollution may not be strict enough to protect public health, according to a recent study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, led by …