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When Harvard and MIT unveiled a partnership in May 2012 to provide public online courses free worldwide, they chose a nonprofit model in part to stave off the for-profit enterprises launched by Stanford computer scientists: Udacity and Coursera. Now, edX …
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Issue: September-October 2021
A Marathon Dream Deferred
The day of the 2018 Boston Marathon was blustery, rainy, and cold—conditions ideal for neither runners nor spectators. Still, despite the wind and downpour, “The race itself was inspirational,” said Stephen J. Bourguet G.S.A. ’24, a graduate student in …
Club and Alumni Interest Group Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards recognize individual and shared-interest groups that have made exceptional contributions to their Harvard communities. Recipients of this year’s Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award are Alice Abarbanel ’66, Louis Edozien ’81, …
Issue: November-December 2023
Brevia
From Dean to Doctor Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School since 2007, announced in November—a year after launching the school’s $750-million capital campaign—that he would step down on July 31. He steered the school through the financial crisis …
Issue: January-February 2016
University People
Portraiture Project Harvard’s Portraiture Project , meant to include important members of the community, has now produced its likeness of the late S. Allen Counter, founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. The …
Issue: July-August 2018
The Omicron Semester
During the week after Thanksgiving break, when Harvard’s campus was fully populated with students, professors, and staff, the University logged 140 cases of coronavirus; but during an early-January week with far fewer people present, 970 new infections …
Harvard’s New Football Coach: A Real Tiger
On February 15 , Harvard introduced Andrew Aurich as the new Stephenson Family head coach of football. A product of St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of a high-school football coach and father of three young children, Aurich has a Sisyphean act to follow as he …
A Summery Ceremony
The sun (graduation planners’ favorite celestial object) began burning through the morning murk at 5:50 a.m. By 6:10, a doctoral candidate, already in cap and gown, leaned over a stroller to kiss her husband as she and he and their befuddled toddler …
References to “At Odds”
March 21 Update: The dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, announced that she will leave that post on June 30, after just three years of service, to return to teaching and research. March 16, 2005 At its regularly …
Harvard Polo Up Close
Watching a Harvard club polo match is a bit like finding out what you thought was mayonnaise was actually Miracle Whip all along—it’s similar, but just different enough to feel unrecognizable. As head coach Crocker Snow ’61, a lifelong polo player and …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard’s Commercial Campus Comes into Focus
During three meetings of the Harvard Allston Task Force in July, Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer shared a more detailed vision of its plans for the first phase of its Enterprise Research Campus (ERC). Those meetings preceded a July 28 public …
Who’s News
Pfoho Leaders Stanton professor of the First Amendment Erica Chenoweth and lecturer in public policy Zoe Marks, both of the Harvard Kennedy School, have been appointed faculty deans of Pforzheimer House effective July 1, joined by their daughter Vera. The …
Issue: July-August 2023
Appeals Court Rules in Harvard’s Favor in Admissions Lawsuit
The First Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld Harvard’s use of race in admissions, the latest ruling in a yearslong lawsuit alleging that the College’s admissions process discriminates against Asian-Americans. The case , first filed in 2014 by Students …
Advice for an Imperfect World
University president Lawrence S. Bacow arrived in Cambridge to begin his first year as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 years ago this fall. Now, as president of Harvard, he began his speech at this year’s Convocation …
Football: Harvard 26-Columbia 6
On Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team supplied precisely the right amount of drama for a team hoping to remain in first place: none. In cruising to a 26-6 win over Columbia, the Crimson—either No. 24 or No. 25 in the Football Championship …