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Reengineering Arts and Sciences
… living expenses would be raised substantially for the 2024-2025 academic year. The calculations are complex, but as a …
Issue: March-April 2024
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 …
New Traditions
A place 388 years young naturally has lots of traditions. Yet it keeps adding new ones. Among the latter is the first-year convocation, held for the sixteenth time this September 2. Among the former is Morning Prayers, dating from the founding in 1636 and …
Issue: November-December 2024
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 …
Harvard Business School’s Bold Agenda
Srikant M. Datar became eleventh dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) on January 1, 2021 , under two unusual circumstances. First, he assumed his new responsibilities in the middle of the academic year, rather than at its outset, the traditional …
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… a better individual to inspire the members of our class of 2025 as they contemplate their futures.” Read the University …
Harvard Football Goes Bowling
As the clock ticked to zero this past November 23, hundreds of Yale fans jumped over the wall separating Harvard Stadium’s bleachers from its field. Despite securing a share of the Ivy League championship, Crimson footballers were left with this bitter …
“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 …
News Briefs
Exploring Natural and Artificial Intelligence Chan Zuckerberg Initiative founders Mark Zuckerberg ’06, L.L.D. ’17, and Priscilla Chan ’07 announced in December a $500-million gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial …
Issue: March-April 2022
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 …
Defeating the Darkness
Editor’s note: Brian Palmer ’86, Ph.D. ’00, a social anthropologist and scholar of religion at Uppsala University in Sweden, submitted this piece of his family’s history. In the 1950s, Ina (John) Bonnell was the librarian of Harvard’s burgeoning Russian …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced
The second annual Harvard Alumni Day, which takes place on Friday, June 2, 2023, will feature guest speaker Mary Louise Kelly ’93, co-host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Kelly’s address will anchor the event, which honors alumni …
Newell and Weld Boat Houses Scheduled for Major Renovation
The historic Newell and Weld boat houses, homes to the storied Harvard and Radcliffe rowing teams, are about to undergo the most comprehensive renovation and updating since they were constructed in 1900 and 1907, respectively. Although some hints about …
China's Newest Revolution: Health for All?
… from 8 percent now (about 100 million) to 14 percent in 2025 (approaching 200 million)—posing large challenges of …
Issue: May-June 2010
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