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Overseer and Director Elected Candidates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from March 31 through May …
Issue: March-April 2023
The “Dangers and Duties that Lie Ahead”
“American higher education is endangered,” declared Porter University Professor and Harvard president emerita Drew Gilpin Faust during a forceful oration Tuesday morning at the 232nd Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre that was …
Guy Davenport
“Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker’s attention, it fails,” Guy Mattison Davenport Jr., Ph.D. ’61, once advised. “This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.” The author, artist, and …
Issue: November-December 2017
Documenting Climate Change Deception
Between 1977 and 2003, ExxonMobil scientists, and the executives to whom they reported, not only knew that climate change was real, they produced some of the best projections and models of global warming that existed at the time, even as their public …
Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer Relocates to University of Chicago
Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer ’85, Ph.D. ’92, who shared the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with two colleagues from MIT for their work on economic development and alleviating global …
Prize-Worthy Work, on Readers’ Behalf
Somewhat belatedly in this unusual academic year, we honor four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2020, and confer a $1,000 honorarium on each. Dick Friedman Photograph courtesy of Dick Friedman Our …
Harvard Projects $750-Million Revenue Shortfall in Next Academic Year
Harvard forecasts a net shortfall of $415 million in anticipated revenue for the fiscal year ending this June 30, reflecting the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and a further $750-million shortfall compared to budgeted expectations for the year …
Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Appeals
T he Supreme Court announced this morning that it will hear Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) appeal of its litigation opposing the consideration of race in Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process. In the formal language of the Court, it announced …
Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
On Tuesday , former women’s hockey coach Katey Stone, who retired 13 months ago in the wake of fierce complaints from former players about emotional abuse, filed a lawsuit against Harvard in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleging gender …
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Civil Rights, Reinterpreted Lincoln Caplan’s cover story about Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s re-assessment of the civil rights movement (“ Both Sides Now, ” January-February, page 29) gives us a wide-screen picture of the struggle over a far longer period, …
Issue: March-April 2022
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Higher Ed Obligations Julie Reuben’s important review of how brand-obsessed colleges are neglecting the needs and purpose of higher education lists several developments in higher ed (“ Ego U ,” March-April, page 24), but omits two that apply especially to …
Issue: May-June 2023
Can Multivitamins Reduce Cancer Risk and Slow Memory Loss?
Multivitamins have ballooned into a $40 billion industry in the United States. In a world captivated by quick fixes, there’s a seductive call in the idea that vitamin supplement might help to prevent age-related health decline. But does this promise hold …
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
With the extensive collection of children’s books donated by Peter J. Solomon ’60, M.B.A. ’63, the newly renovated Houghton Library could have opened an exhibit of the genre’s “greatest hits.” Among other treasures, Solomon’s collection includes first …
On Your Behalf
We are proud to recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine for their superb work on your behalf during 2023, and to confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative literature James Engell has …
Issue: January-February 2024
Business School Dean Transition Extended during Coronavirus Crisis
President Lawrence S. Bacow announced this afternoon that Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), who had announced his retirement effective at the end of this academic year , in June, will now remain the school’s leader through the end of …