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The Aloian Memorial Scholars
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has awarded Jorge Campos ’21, of Los Angeles, and Reeda Iqbal ’21, of Brentwood, New York, the 2020 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholarships for enriching the quality of life in their Houses. From Housing Day …
Issue: November-December 2020
Fresh Start
After a season of gluttony, the new year offers exciting possibilities for healthier habits and rituals. There are plenty of options in Cambridge and beyond to jumpstart a new fitness routine—or to simply refresh and renew. Close to home, pop into the New …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Home Front
In his installation address, President Lawrence S. Bacow said, “[W]e must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.” His context then was sustaining free speech on campus in the search for truth. When he invokes the phrase now, it seems …
Issue: May-June 2021
Harvard Announces Carrie Moore as New Women’s Basketball Coach
The last time the women’s basketball team took the court, the Crimson fell 72-67 to Princeton in the Ivy League tournament semifinals. When the team walked off the Lavietes Pavilion floor last month, junior guard McKenzie Forbes put her arm around Friends …
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 …
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
New Kennedy School Dean Announced
The University announced today that Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced that Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. ’03, a professor of international studies at Stanford University, will become Harvard Kennedy School dean on July 1. Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf …
Reasons to Rejoice
We’ve learned a lot about how to gather since last year, when so many of us were relegated to remote holiday soirees. This year, we’re ready to reunite—withprecautions, of course—and there are plenty of ways to honor the season in sensible style. Here are …
Issue: November-December 2021
Five Questions with Paris Olympian Graham Blanks ’25
runner graham blanks '25 spoke about his experience earning a New Balance sponsorship in the November-December feature " The End of the Ivy League? " Harvard Magazine asked the economics and philosophy concentrator from Athens, Georgia, who placed ninth …
The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
This is the tenth 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. What can you do these days with significant private …
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 Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases
Castle professor of medicine Dan Barouch , who runs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s (BIDMC) Center for Virology and Vaccine research, has been awarded $24.5 million during the next five years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help find …
Harvard Presidential Search Begins
Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation since July 1 , today advised the community that the search to select the successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow, who is stepping down next June 30 , is formally under way. In an email message …
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
With a deeply researched report released in April and a conference a few days later , Harvard joined the long list of universities that have conducted public investigations into their historic ties to slavery. In Harvard’s case, those ties—direct, …
Issue: July-August 2022
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 …