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Climate-Change Changes
In late February, some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions associated with investments held in the endowment, Harvard Management Company (HMC) issued its first “Climate Report.” The document …
Issue: May-June 2021
Silvana Gómez’s Undergraduate English Address
Creating–Not Accepting–Our New Normal The morning of my first day of kindergarten, I woke up ready to take on the day. At five years old, this was the start of a new life, with new routines, new friends. A new me. After choosing the perfect first day of …
Increasingly Electronic Libraries
From 1998 through 2005, University library holdings increased by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number of "e-resources" grew tenfold, and now include more than 15,000 on-line journal titles. Researchers are …
Issue: January-February 2007
Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future
“I really like things that, if they work, really matter—even if they don’t have a super high chance of working,” Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, told a crowd of students who packed Memorial Church to hear him speak on May 1. He explained what …
“All Climate Change Is Local”
… with the Cape Ann Climate Coalition, TownGreen 2025, Water Alliance, the City of Gloucester, and the Town …
Harvard College Class of 2019 Admissions and Term Bill
Harvard College announced today that 1,990 students have been offered admission to the class of 2019 ( including the 977 previously notified that they were granted early-action admission ). The College received a record 37,307 applications , up nearly 9 …
The End of Murphy Time
On Thursday , during a Zoom media conference the day after announcing his retirement, Tim Murphy was informed by Harvard director of athletics Erin McDermott that no one could hear him because he had muted himself. In the oft-voluble Murphy’s 30 years at …
Strategy—and a Celebration
Broadly Speaking, the Harvard governance reforms unveiled in December 2010 had three purposes. Foremost was strengthening the Corporation’s fiduciary oversight of the University, in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial meltdown and prior missteps in …
Issue: September-October 2022
“Make Elections Boring Again”
“Secretary Raffensperger , you’ve had an interesting couple of years.” So began a conversation at the Institute of Politics (IOP) Tuesday evening with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who took the infamous phone call from Donald Trump after …
Robert Lue Named Bok Center Director
Given his present and past titles —including professor of the practice of molecular and cellular biology; director of HarvardX; dean of Harvard Summer School; tutor in biochemical sciences; director of life sciences education — the new assignment Robert …
The Context: Life on the Mesopotamian Marshes—and the Specter of Drought
This is the sixth 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. As the battle for Mosul in 2016 was raging in Iraq and …
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2020-21 academic year. Fernanda Baron, of Lowell House, a sociology concentrator with a secondary field in the studies of women, gender, and sexuality, will …
Issue: July-August 2020
Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine
Harvard Medical School professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun , Ph.D. ’82, has been named co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester. The scientists were …
Harvard Art Museums Now Admission-Free
T he Harvard Art Museums (HAM) announced this morning that all visitors will be admitted free of admission charges, effective immediately. Until this change, adults were charged $20 for access to the collections, and those over 65 years, $18. To be sure, …
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 …