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Angela Merkel Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
In a surprise early announcement, Harvard has named Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany since 2005, its speaker for the 368th Commencement ceremonies, taking place on May 30, 2019. “Angela Merkel is one of the most widely admired and broadly influential …
SFFA Asks Supreme Court to Review Harvard Admissions Lawsuit
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), which has pursued litigation against Harvard’s longstanding use of race as a factor in its holistic review of undergraduate applicants for admission to the College, today asked the Supreme Court to review its case. …
An Afternoon of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
A Friends of Harvard Magazine event was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2005 at the Arnold Arboretum. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, former director of the collections and instructor at the Graduate School of Design presented a short program which …
Carrying a “Heavy Pack”
… concentrated in government and East Asian studies, and in 2025 she will report to Goodfellow Air Force Base as an …
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President Garber, Provost Manning
Having shed the “interim” title on August 2, President Alan M. Garber —now expected to serve through June 30, 2027—today solidified his administration by ending the interim status of his designated successor as provost, former Harvard Law School dean John …
American Jewish Life After October 7
Monday marked a year since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which ignited a war in the Middle East and a wave of pro-Palestine protests on American college campuses. Several campus events marked the anniversary, including a pair of discussions at the …
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
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
The Overseers and Optics
The University has announced that Kenji Yoshino ’91, the Chief Justice Earl Warren professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law, has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for the academic year 2016-2017. Nicole …
President Bacow Reviews Harvard Climate Actions
In a letter to the Harvard community this afternoon addressing climate change, President Lawrence S. Bacow described what “Harvard has done and will do to ensure that our community is fully engaged in the critical work ahead.” The appearance of such a …
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) …
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
Linda Greenhouse ’68 covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times for 30 years (winning a Pulitzer Prize for her work). Now, continuing to observe the court from a post at Yale, she has crafted a quick history of the year of Amy Coney Barrett’s …
Issue: November-December 2021
Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Harvard Helps Local Small Businesses
Yesterday, Campus Services sent an internal email to staff with news of how the unit is helping students—and the community at large— during these challenging times . Students who test positive for COVID-19 are being housed in isolation at the Harvard …