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Justice Ajogbor Holds Court
Last December, with just under four minutes remaining in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed fourth-ranked Kansas by just nine points when Jayhawks guard Bobby Pettiford exploded toward the hoop. Crimson forward Justice Ajogbor ’24 …
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 …
News Briefs
Enlarged Allston Ambitions Even as work proceeds toward construction of the first commercial buildings in Harvard’s 14-acre “enterprise research campus” (ERC) along Western Avenue in Allston, the University’s development partner, Tishman Speyer, has begun …
Issue: May-June 2021
American Ingenuity
To safeguard access to weaponry, in 1794 the new federal government expanded an arsenal into a national manufacturing base in Springfield, Massachusetts. Starting with hand-crafted flintlock muskets, the armory produced and stored military small …
Issue: November-December 2021
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the World
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, immigration, …
Proactive AI Policy
Artificial intelligence is developing faster than policymakers can keep up, and the gap in understanding between government and industry could pose challenges for effective regulation. But that doesn’t mean corporations should develop and deploy AI as …
"To Repair This Imperfect World"
“Worrying seems about as necessary as breathing these days,” President Lawrence J. Bacow remarked last Friday in his address at the tenth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference. “Global challenges abound, and efforts to …
“All Climate Change Is Local”
… with the Cape Ann Climate Coalition, TownGreen 2025, Water Alliance, the City of Gloucester, and the Town …
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 …
Election Results
Six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were voted in earlier this year; each will each serve three-year terms. They are: Santiago Creuheras, A.L.M. ’00, A.L.M. ’01, C.S.S. ’01, Mexico City. Senior consultant on sustainable …
Issue: November-December 2020
edX Exit
When Harvard and MIT unveiled a partnership in May 2012 to provide public online courses free worldwide, they chose a nonprofit model in part to stave off the for-profit enterprises launched by Stanford computer scientists: Udacity and Coursera. Now, edX …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: September-October 2021
“The Wise Person Learns from All People”
In an affecting May 23 baccalaureate address to College seniors, President Lawrence S. Bacow recalled that in the fall of 2019, he had told this class at their freshman convocation that “Anyone who is thinking of the next four years as a series of …
A Marathon Dream Deferred
The day of the 2018 Boston Marathon was blustery, rainy, and cold—conditions ideal for neither runners nor spectators. Still, despite the wind and downpour, “The race itself was inspirational,” said Stephen J. Bourguet G.S.A. ’24, a graduate student in …
Silent Study-Ins
Last December , approximately 100 pro-Palestine students filed into Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room, taped flyers to the back of their laptops, and read for an hour. This “study-in,” billed as “silent” and “non-disruptive” by the student organizers, …
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