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Finishing Kick
Lawrence S. Bacow regularly ran marathons when he was Tufts president, and conducted an interview with a Crimson reporter while splashing along Memorial Drive on the wet Marathon Monday before he took office as Harvard’s leader in 2018. He no longer …
New Dean for Public Health
Andrea Baccarelli , an environmental health sciences scholar, will become dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) on January 1, 2024. An expert in the molecular mechanisms that link environmental exposures to human disease, he …
Elena Rodriguez Steps Up
In early December, the Harvard women’s basketball team was leading Michigan by one point at the end of the first quarter, when the Crimson’s star point guard Harmoni Turner ’25 brought the ball across half court. Discarding a defender with a crossover …
Increasingly Electronic Libraries
From 1998 through 2005, University library holdings increased by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number of "e-resources" grew tenfold, and now include more than 15,000 on-line journal titles. Researchers are …
Issue: January-February 2007
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 …
Two Harvardians Win MacArthur Fellowships
Two Harvard alumnae are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows announced today. Dorothy Roberts, J.D. ’80, is a legal scholar and public policy researcher who studies racial inequality in health and social service systems. A faculty member at the University of …
A Ray of Light amid Middle East Devastation
“Open, sesame!” This phrase, familiar from childhood stories, comes from Antoine Galland’s translation of One Thousand and One Nights. In the story, it is spoken to open the mouth of a cave enclosing untold magical treasures. Like Ali Baba to the cave, …
Raising Young Voices
The music of the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC)—with themes of immigration, protest, and history—seems to especially resonate with its teenage singers. “The pieces are so powerful,” says soprano Rory Li, “and when you are feeling that in yourself and you …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Cost of Political Violence
After a shocking assassination attempt earlier this month against Donald Trump, rising political violence is once again in the news. On Thursday afternoon, the Harvard Kennedy School convened a panel of scholars to discuss how Americans’ attitudes have …
The Yard Libraries, Reimagined
Looking toward the University’s four-hundredth anniversary in 2036, the Harvard Library has conducted a feasibility study for the renovations of Widener, Lamont, Pusey, and Houghton libraries. The study, conducted during the 2022-2023 academic year, …
Issue: July-August 2024
The Day’s Events: Wednesday, May 27
EVENTS FOR Wednesday, May 27, include: ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, 11:30 A.M. in Tercentenary Theatre. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will celebrate Centennial Medalists at a luncheon. Harvard College Class Day will begin at 2 P.M. in …
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in her youth (“My Brief Career in Reality Television”) to tell the community something about herself, her academic trajectory, and her …
Five Questions with Professor Jia Liu
Assistant professor of bioengineering Jia Liu received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard in 2014 and then completed postdoctoral research at Stanford from 2015 to 2018. He joined the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in …
Muslim American Life after October 7
Describing the October 7 Hamas attacks as a “watershed moment,” Asim Ijaz Khwaja, the co-chair of Harvard’s task force on combating anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian bias , spoke on Monday evening with Aslı Ü. Bâli, a Yale scholar of …
Gary Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status
In a June 10 email to affiliates of the anthropology department, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Peabody Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced that she has stripped former Dumbarton Oaks professor of pre-Colombian studies Gary Urton of …