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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
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 …
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
Widsom of the Aged
Given separate Commencement and reunions/Alumni Day celebrations, Primus could not devote full attention during the pomp-cum-protests that marked this year’s 373rd exercises. Returning to reflect, he notes that Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, …
Issue: September-October 2024
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
When Technology and Society Clash
… And it’s why her forthcoming book, to be released in 2025 and focused on how society can maintain the benefits of …
Issue: November-December 2024
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, …
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 . …
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 …
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 …
The Interim President’s Agenda
Alan M. Garber ’77, Ph.D. ’82, physician and economist, provost since September 2011 , unexpectedly became interim president January 2 , when President Claudine Gay resigned. The shift in physical offices was trivial: a right turn, rather than a left in …
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
“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 …