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Business School Dean Jay O. Light to Step Down
Harvard Business School (HBS) dean Jay O. Light announced today that he would relinquish his position at the end of the academic year . He will also retire from the faculty at that time. Light, D.B.A. ’70, who is Baker professor of business …
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 18
… universities announced an extension of the rivalry through 2025, taking off only ’15 and ’17. weekend roundup: All …
Artificial Intelligence in the Academy
How is artificial intelligence reshaping the notion of original scholarship? How are faculty using the technology in their research and teaching, and what are administrators doing with the tools to streamline their work? A May 1 symposium convened by …
Broadening the Faculty’s Ranks
Data on the faculty’s composition, embedded within Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay’s annual report, are largely consistent with prior-year trends. The ladder faculty (tenured and tenure-track) numbers 728, up from 724; that is down …
Issue: January-February 2021
Harvard College Announces Admissions, Term Bill
Harvard College announced today that 2,023 students have been offered admission to the class of 2018 ( including the 992 previously notified that they were granted early-action admission ). The College received 34,295 applications, down marginally from …
Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence
I spent the first “post-pandemic” semester back on campus racked with homesickness. In retrospect, it was a familiar feeling: the same fog had descended upon me my first year at Harvard, in 2019. That was the first time I had been away from home for …
Issue: January-February 2023
“Find Your Way to Heal This World”
At this year’s most unusual Freshman Convocation—broadcast on YouTube, with students living on campus instructed to “watch in your room/suite but…not gather in groups to watch”—dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana urged students to “commit to wearing a …
Barer-Bones Budget
Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard's culture in much leaner University budgets for fiscal year 2005, beginning on July 1. Interviewed in her Massachusetts Hall office on the September day when the Boston Globe reported "MIT to cut …
Issue: November-December 2003
Seeing Life
We live in an age of ecosystems —of life threatened on a planetary scale by climate change—and of genomes—of life analyzed at the molecular level, unveiling our own evolutionary history and the processes that underlie all of biology. Powerful though these …
Issue: March-April 2021
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Harvard Law I read with keen interest “ The Education of a Harvard Lawyer ” (January-February, page 38) by Nancy Boxley Tepper, my classmate. As I recall, she was one of five women in the class and I was one of three blacks. I noted with interest her …
Issue: March-April 2021
Change at the Top
Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since July 2014, will retire at the end of this year, concluding a quarter-century of Harvard service. The February announcement of his plans ensures a smooth introduction of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Education School Dean Bridget Terry Long to Step Down
Bridget Terry Long announced today that she will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the end of this academic year. She has served in a leadership role at HGSE over the last decade, first as academic dean and then, …
Reunions, Alumni Meeting to Be Virtual
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today notified members of reunion classes that their spring functions would be conducted virtually. In an email, Philip W. Lovejoy, HAA executive director, wrote: In consultation with University leadership and Harvard …
Football: Yale 23-Harvard 18
As so often happens, The Game this year ended with the quarterback of the trailing team trying one desperation pass that, if successful, would turn defeat into victory. On Saturday at the Yale Bowl it was Harvard’s sophomore Jaden Craig, in fourth-and-14 …
Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment
UPDATE: May 10, 12:15 P.M. This morning , Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) announced on Instagram that “Harvard has started sending out suspension notices” to students in the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard. Involuntary leave prevents …