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Issue: September-October 2021
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
“A Game of Inches”
Last September , the members of the Harvard women’s basketball team stood in their locker room, anticipating a painful exercise. This wasn’t a drill or conditioning test; it was a ritual for the path ahead. Each player had to set an intention and then …
Harvard Endowment Decreases by $1.9 Billion on Negative Investment Returns
Performance highlights for fiscal 2016: •The endowment’s value stood at $35.7 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, a decrease of $1.9 billion (5.1 percent) from $37.6 billion a year earlier —a total that had finally exceeded the nominal …
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 …
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
Harvard Medalists
THE HARVARD Alumni Association (HAA) awarded five Harvard Medals, reading out citations for each, during the Harvard Alumni Day festivities on June 2. For a fuller account, see harvardmag.com/harv-medalist-23 . Lawrence S. Bacow Photograph by Jim Harrison …
Issue: July-August 2023
Tracy Palandjian Elected to Harvard Corporation
Tracy Pun Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s 13-member fiduciary governing board, effective July 1. Harvard announced the election today, following a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing …
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 …
At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience
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 income inequality, racial justice, Pride month, …
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 …
Harvard Education School Dean Appointed
The University has appointed Nonie K. Lesaux, Larsen professor of education and human development, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She has served as interim dean since July, succeeding Saris professor of education and economics …
Harvard Business School Expands Financial Aid
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced Tuesday that, effective immediately, it would begin providing scholarships that cover the total cost of tuition and course fees ($75,990) to MBA students “with the greatest financial need”—a group that includes …
News Briefs
In Prospect, for Spring As this issue went to press, Harvard Business School proposed to continue with limited residential and hybrid instruction—but perhaps chastened, after an uptick in COVID-19 cases in November forced it to turn to all-remote learning …
Issue: January-February 2021
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 …