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Harvard Adopts Quantitative Reasoning, Studies Preregistration
Facing an unusually full agenda during its last full meeting of the academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this afternoon: legislated a new committee to “improve the current system” of undergraduate course registration; adopted the …
Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program
Harvard will launch a Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering, one of the first in the world, the University announced today. The program has been designed to train the next generation of leaders and innovators in a domain of physics already …
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. …
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 was puzzled in January 1999 when she showed up on the first day of her creative-writing seminar, “Weaving an Autobiography.” “It was all women in their 60s, 70s, 80s—and the teacher was 95,” she remembers. McKetta, a …
Issue: November-December 2021
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
Endowment Exposure to Fossil-Fuel Production Less than Two Percent of Assets
Some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for greenhouse-gas emissions associated with investments held in the endowment —timed for the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day last April—Harvard Management Company (HMC) this …
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 …
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 18
… universities announced an extension of the rivalry through 2025, taking off only ’15 and ’17. weekend roundup: All …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
In the mid 1990s Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. ’84, was raising money for the Harvard libraries during a capital campaign as a member of the FAS development team. She recalls people saying, “‘But libraries are going to disappear. Nobody uses libraries anymore …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
The Context: Arthur C. Brooks on “Revenge Bedtime Procrastination”
This is the fourth 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. Sleep is good , but a lot of people don’t get enough …