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Yesterday’s News
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Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard College Admits Class of 2028
Harvard College today offered regular admission to 1,245 applicants to the class of 2028; combined with the 692 early-action applicants granted admission in December , 1,937 of the 54,008 applicants to the class (3.6 percent) were granted admission. The …
Remembering John Corcoran ’84
On weekday afternoons , John Corcoran’s bike often disappeared from his Newton garage. For hours, he rode along the Charles River, heading from Newton into Boston as the little stream expanded into a broad basin. It was not until the sun began to set on …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2020-2021 Fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ’s 2020-2021 cohort, announced today, includes 42 fellows representing six countries. The acceptance rate for the incoming class was 2.8 percent, from a pool of nearly 1,400 applicants. Radcliffe is planning a …
Off the Shelf
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Issue: May-June 2025
College Admits 7.5 Percent of Early Applicants
Today , 722 of 9,553 early-action applicants were admitted to the College class of 2027. This 7.5 percent acceptance rate is slightly lower than last year’s 7.9 percent . Of the admitted cohort, 14 percent come from first-generation college backgrounds, …
Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux
When the Harvard College class of 2027 gathered in Tercentenary Theatre on September 3 a year ago , they met a new lineup of leaders: Claudine Gay, the University’s thirtieth president; Hopi Hoekstra, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean , whom Gay had …
Photographs from Commencement Week
On assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard Commencements for decades. In this most unusual of Commencement years, celebrating the class of 2022 with an in-person graduation, and …
Behind the Scenes: Caring for the Caregivers
Associate editor Lydialyle Gibson examines the role of the “Invisible Second Patient.” When I was in seventh grade, my best friend’s father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. He was in his late 50s. Her mother had trained as a nurse, and …
Harvard Forward Won’t Contest 2022 Overseers’ Election
Harvard Forward, which organized alumni to place petition candidates on the annual ballot for the Board of Overseers—and elected four younger Overseers, on a platform advocating divestment from fossil fuels, governance reform, and other changes, in 2020 …
News in Brief
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Issue: January-February 2025
Commencement and Alumni Annual Meeting Notice 2022
Commencement Exercises for the Class of 2022 Thursday, May 26, 2022 commencement.harvard.edu Since 1642, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed in the University. Degree candidates, …
Issue: March-April 2022
Cambridge Smorgasbord
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Issue: May-June 2025
How Measles Destroys Immune Memories
The measles outbreak in Texas, which has now spread to New Mexico, has infected mainly unvaccinated children. Of 159 cases, all but five were in unvaccinated individuals. One child has died. Cases have also been reported in six other states, including New …
This Spring, Next Fall
… are expected on campus this fall, along with the class of 2025. Yale has already indicated that the atypically large …
Issue: May-June 2021