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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
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 Poetics of Homelessness
After publication of the May-June feature “ The Homelessness Public Health Crisis ,” Harvard Magazine received an email from Jason Adam Sheets, M.T.S. ’21. A Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist, Sheets earned a B.F.A. from Goddard College in …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
New Dean for Public Health
Andrea Baccarelli , an environmental health sciences scholar, will become dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) on January 1, 2024. An expert in the molecular mechanisms that link environmental exposures to human disease, he …
How Planet Earth’s Trees Use Carbon
What is the carbon cycle, anyway? Most people are familiar with the basics: trees and other plants absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere and convert it back to oxygen. Since CO₂ is a molecule that traps the sun’s heat, trees and other carbon-sequestering …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Elena Rodriguez Steps Up
In early December, the Harvard women’s basketball team was leading Michigan by one point at the end of the first quarter, when the Crimson’s star point guard Harmoni Turner ’25 brought the ball across half court. Discarding a defender with a crossover …