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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 …
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
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 …
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 …
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in her youth (“My Brief Career in Reality Television”) to tell the community something about herself, her academic trajectory, and her …
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 …
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 …
Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
On Tuesday , former women’s hockey coach Katey Stone, who retired 13 months ago in the wake of fierce complaints from former players about emotional abuse, filed a lawsuit against Harvard in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleging gender …
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 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 …
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 18
… universities announced an extension of the rivalry through 2025, taking off only ’15 and ’17. weekend roundup: All …
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 …
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 …
Seeing Methane from Space
Harvard scientists are tackling a major climate change challenge: targeting emissions of methane, a gas with a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but 80 times the warming potential. With a privately funded globe-spanning satellite …
Brevia
From Dean to Doctor Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School since 2007, announced in November—a year after launching the school’s $750-million capital campaign—that he would step down on July 31. He steered the school through the financial crisis …
Issue: January-February 2016