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Arnold Arboretum Turns 150
“It smells like cake,” says the Arnold Arboretum’s keeper of the living collections, Michael Dosmann, standing beneath a nearly 150-year-old Japanese katsura tree. Its dark, curvy limbs are surrounded by a halo of delicate red leaves worthy of a …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Day’s Events: Thursday, May 28
EVENTS FOR Thursday, May 28, include: Gates to Harvard Yard open at 6:45 A.M., and there will be a morning prayer service for graduating seniors at 8 A.M. in Memorial Church. Morning Exercises begin at 9:45 A.M. and include: honorary degree candidates …
Words to Live By
Had this been a typical year, College seniors would have walked back to their Houses to receive their diplomas following Thursday morning’s Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre, while newly minted doctor’s and master’s degree-holders would have …
Football: Harvard 35-Stetson 0
For the Harvard football team, the kickoff to its 150th season and to the Andrew Aurich era couldn’t have gone better. But the 35-0 plastering of overmatched Stetson before a sparse assemblage at a dank and drippy Harvard Stadium on Saturday does not …
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Holy Cross 28
Football consists of three components: offense, defense, and special teams. On Saturday at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harvard excelled in all three. The upshot was a major upset, with the Crimson taking down Holy Cross 38-28. The Crusaders, …
Brevia
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 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 …
Chinese Trade Dragons
China’s economy has grown more than five-fold during the last 20 years, adjusted for inflation—making it the second-largest economy globally, behind only the United States. Based on purchasing power parity (not per capita output), many believe China’s …
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
Is Harvard Antisemitic?
When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and destruction—and also inflamed American prejudice on ethnic and religious grounds. Within hours, allegations of such bias came to Harvard. A hasty October 7 student letter …
Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering issue reports
Harvard's task forces on women faculty and on women in science and engineering, created in February, issued their reports on Monday, May 16. The reports are available in PDF format below; for a link to the official University news release, click here . …
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
Fewer Grad Students, No Spring Recess
Harvard will admit fewer graduate students for the 2021-2022 academic year (and will begin a comprehensive review of Ph.D. education), and undergraduates who are permitted to return to campus for this coming spring semester (a cohort yet to be determined) …
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’s Year That Was
… course offerings, changes in the student handbook for 2024-2025, and a revamping of the policies governing doctoral …