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Harvard at the Olympics
As most students wrap up summer internships, 26 of their fellow Harvardians are spending two weeks in Paris vying for the world’s most prestigious sporting titles. Crimson athletes competed in events ranging from fencing and field hockey to sailing and …
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
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 …
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 …
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Home Unaffordable Home
In 1995, a typical home in the Boston metropolitan area could be had for about $165,000. Today, the same home would cost more than $714,000. For someone taking out a conventional fixed-rate 30-year mortgage, the monthly carrying costs (assuming a 10 …
Issue: November-December 2024
Allston Home for A.R.T. Approved
A new University performing arts center and residential apartment building were approved by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board on November 16. Construction of the 70,000-square-foot David E. [’93] and Stacey L. Goel Center for …
“It’s Tournament Time”
Last Tuesday, with just over three minutes left in the game, the Harvard women’s basketball team was pummeling Dartmouth 71-43, but judging by the Crimson’s aggressive defense, one might have thought the Ivy title was at stake. Delaney-Smith coach Carrie …
Timely Recovery
Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a 7.3 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. The endowment’s value on that date was $41.9 billion: up $1.0 billion (2.4 percent) from $40.9 billion a year earlier . In a …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin ’89 always notices the hands: how they move when a person speaks, where they come to rest, whether they’re folded or open, fidgety or quiet, how they cradle the chin or fall into the lap or reach out across a table. For a portrait painter …
Issue: November-December 2021
Cousins in the Ancient World
Using a new technique developed at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute, scientists can identify close relatives among people who lived thousands of years ago. A study published today demonstrates how the ability to identify up to second and third cousins …
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 …
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 …
“A Game of Inches”
Last September , the members of the Harvard women’s basketball team stood in their locker room, anticipating a painful exercise. This wasn’t a drill or conditioning test; it was a ritual for the path ahead. Each player had to set an intention and then …
Virtual Graduation 2.0
Anyone who worked remotely during the past 16 months knows that doing business digitally is fast and productive . More evidence came during “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021,” on May 27: the second COVID-era virtual graduation program (minus 30,000 …
Issue: July-August 2021
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 …