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“No Going Back to Normal”
During much of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced closures throughout the country, Ibrahim Barry felt stuck in his head. A 15-year-old freshman hoping to play college basketball someday, he found himself with no gyms available and no school to …
Issue: July-August 2022
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 Boston Camerata Turns 70
… Tero Saarinen (slated to be performed in Europe in 2025-26). More recently, the ensemble has developed programs … will be performed at Boston’s Old West Church on April 27, 2025. Among Boston Camerata’s best-known sources is the …
Issue: November-December 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 …
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 …
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 …
Harvard Reports Top Administrators’ and Investment Managers’ Pay
H arvard today released its 2019 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Repositioning Harvard House Life
On a Tuesday night in early March, the Pforzheimer House Committee convened on a Zoom call, the virtual analog to the Hastings Room where it once met on campus. The crew had a reputation to maintain, and did not take its present task lightly. Juniors …
Five Questions with Professor Peter Der Manuelian
Bell professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian has been teaching and researching at Harvard since 2010, when he became the University’s first full-time Egyptologist since 1942 (read more in our 2011 Portrait here ). He also serves as the director of the …
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
Staying Steady
Look up Crimson field hockey goalkeeper Ellie Shahbo ’22 [’23] and you’ll find a flurry of improbable athletic feats: a fully extended back-handed stick-save to clinch a win over Princeton, a diving stop to shut out the University of New Hampshire, three …
Issue: September-October 2022
At Home with Harvard: Health Care in America
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’ s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, alumni …
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
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s 373 rd Commencement exercises, scheduled for …
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 …