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University People
Portraiture Project Harvard’s Portraiture Project , meant to include important members of the community, has now produced its likeness of the late S. Allen Counter, founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. The …
Issue: July-August 2018
Free Speech on Campus
On Tuesday evening , one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for President Claudine Gay’s dismissal and less than 12 hours after Harvard Corporation members released a statement confirming their support for her continued leadership, …
College Conversers
Sipping organic turmeric ginger tea and munching crumbly cookies, seven students gathered in the Leverett Senior Common Room to talk, as they do each week. Their group size and discussion topics vary, as do their invited faculty guests. Members of the …
Issue: January-February 2025
A Summery Ceremony
The sun (graduation planners’ favorite celestial object) began burning through the morning murk at 5:50 a.m. By 6:10, a doctoral candidate, already in cap and gown, leaned over a stroller to kiss her husband as she and he and their befuddled toddler …
The Omicron Semester
During the week after Thanksgiving break, when Harvard’s campus was fully populated with students, professors, and staff, the University logged 140 cases of coronavirus; but during an early-January week with far fewer people present, 970 new infections …
References to “At Odds”
March 21 Update: The dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, announced that she will leave that post on June 30, after just three years of service, to return to teaching and research. March 16, 2005 At its regularly …
Oscar Does a Plié to Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman ’03, star of the film Black Swan, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine, won the 2011 Academy Award for best actress. Portman played a driven, tortured ballerina in the tense psychological thriller, directed by Darren Aronofsky ’91, who …
Antisemitism on Campus—And Beyond
Sunday afternoon , September 22, hundreds of Harvard community members donning miniature Israeli flags and hostage dog tags filed into Sanders Theatre for a summit about antisemitism and anti-Zionism on campus. The high-security gathering was organized by …
Harvard’s Commercial Campus Comes into Focus
During three meetings of the Harvard Allston Task Force in July, Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer shared a more detailed vision of its plans for the first phase of its Enterprise Research Campus (ERC). Those meetings preceded a July 28 public …
Appeals Court Rules in Harvard’s Favor in Admissions Lawsuit
The First Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld Harvard’s use of race in admissions, the latest ruling in a yearslong lawsuit alleging that the College’s admissions process discriminates against Asian-Americans. The case , first filed in 2014 by Students …
Advice for an Imperfect World
University president Lawrence S. Bacow arrived in Cambridge to begin his first year as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 years ago this fall. Now, as president of Harvard, he began his speech at this year’s Convocation …
Harvard Polo Up Close
Watching a Harvard club polo match is a bit like finding out what you thought was mayonnaise was actually Miracle Whip all along—it’s similar, but just different enough to feel unrecognizable. As head coach Crocker Snow ’61, a lifelong polo player and …
Issue: March-April 2022
What to Expect
As the summer solstice approaches on June 20—the sun high, with shadows sharp and short—shadows of a different kind loom over the University and its community, as a fall semester unlike any other draws nearer. People across Harvard are working furiously …
Can Disinformation Be Stopped?
“Stop the Steal” was first trotted out during the 2016 Republican primaries. As the Republican National Convention approached, Donald Trump’s campaign consultant Roger Stone coined the phrase, urging people to resist the allegedly corrupt “establishment” …
Issue: July-August 2021
Alan Garber’s Opening Words
In a message to the Harvard community on Thursday morning, as students were returning for the start of classes next week, President Alan M. Garber offered a welcome—and an admonition. He asked those coming back to campus to seek “enlightenment, …