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Harvard Presidential Search Begins
Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation since July 1 , today advised the community that the search to select the successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow, who is stepping down next June 30 , is formally under way. In an email message …
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
With a deeply researched report released in April and a conference a few days later , Harvard joined the long list of universities that have conducted public investigations into their historic ties to slavery. In Harvard’s case, those ties—direct, …
Issue: July-August 2022
The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
This is the tenth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. What can you do these days with significant private …
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Crimson Tiger Molecular biologist and geneticist Shirley M. Tilghman, LL.D. ’04, president emerita of Princeton, has been elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. She began serving as of January 1, filling the vacancy created by the sudden death of …
Issue: March-April 2016
Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases
Castle professor of medicine Dan Barouch , who runs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) Center for Virology and Vaccine research, has been awarded $24.5 million during the next five years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help find …
Returning to the Big Screen
During the lulls between pandemic surges last year, movie-lovers enthusiastically ventured to the West Newton Cinema for screened classics. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is always popular, says cinema co-owner David Bramante. People are also …
Issue: March-April 2021
SFFA Asks Supreme Court to Review Harvard Admissions Lawsuit
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), which has pursued litigation against Harvard’s longstanding use of race as a factor in its holistic review of undergraduate applicants for admission to the College, today asked the Supreme Court to review its case. …
Harvard Engineering School’s Move to Allston Deferred
Francis J. Doyle III , dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), informed his community this afternoon that the school’s plan to move much of its faculty, research, and teaching into its new quarters in …
Angela Merkel Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
In a surprise early announcement, Harvard has named Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany since 2005, its speaker for the 368th Commencement ceremonies, taking place on May 30, 2019. “Angela Merkel is one of the most widely admired and broadly influential …
Justice Ajogbor Holds Court
Last December, with just under four minutes remaining in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed fourth-ranked Kansas by just nine points when Jayhawks guard Bobby Pettiford exploded toward the hoop. Crimson forward Justice Ajogbor ’24 …
Post-Pandemic Pedagogy
It is too soon to tell how COVID-19 will alter life and work within the University community over time. But it is a good bet that discovering how to foster engagement when academic interactions are remote has changed the ways teachers and students …
Issue: May-June 2022
An Afternoon of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
A Friends of Harvard Magazine event was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2005 at the Arnold Arboretum. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, former director of the collections and instructor at the Graduate School of Design presented a short program which …
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News Briefs
In Prospect, for Spring As this issue went to press, Harvard Business School proposed to continue with limited residential and hybrid instruction—but perhaps chastened, after an uptick in COVID-19 cases in November forced it to turn to all-remote learning …
Issue: January-February 2021
President Bacow Reviews Harvard Climate Actions
In a letter to the Harvard community this afternoon addressing climate change, President Lawrence S. Bacow described what “Harvard has done and will do to ensure that our community is fully engaged in the critical work ahead.” The appearance of such a …