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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
Addressing Disability
The voices of disabled Harvard community members are finding new strength amidst a recent surge in student- and alumni-led accessibility initiatives. Last year, students across the University formed The Harvard Student Alliance for Disability Action, and …
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 …
Humanists All
Editor’s note: Harvard Magazine published “ The Market-Model University: Humanities in the Age of Money ,” by James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield, in the May-June 1998 issue. A quarter-century later, the trends identified then have only intensified. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Nicholas Stephanopoulos was a second-year law student at Yale when the Supreme Court ruled—unsatisfactorily, he believed—on the 2004 Pennsylvania gerrymandering case Vieth v. Jubelirer . Splitting 5-4, the justices upheld the state’s partisan …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard Announces Salary, Hiring Freezes and Other Spending Cuts
Breaking News: In a message headlined “Economic Impact of COVID-19,” President Lawrence S. Bacow—joined by Provost Alan M. Garber and Executive Vice President Katie Lapp—just notified the community that “we need to take some actions immediately to align …
“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 …
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
Muslim American Life after October 7
Describing the October 7 Hamas attacks as a “watershed moment,” Asim Ijaz Khwaja, the co-chair of Harvard’s task force on combating anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian bias , spoke on Monday evening with Aslı Ü. Bâli, a Yale scholar of …
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, …
The End of Shopping Week
During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted by a 3:2 margin to replace the “shopping” period—the beginning-of-term week in which students sample courses before making their selections—with …
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
New Kennedy School Dean Announced
The University announced today that Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced that Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. ’03, a professor of international studies at Stanford University, will become Harvard Kennedy School dean on July 1. Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf …
Governance Reform from Below?
The last item discussed at the May 7 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting may, in time, rank first in importance: a motion, introduced by Conant University Professor Danielle Allen , brought forth with seven colleagues, that the faculty elect …
Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart
As the holiday season approaches , deciding what to put on your plate takes on new significance—not only for your health, but for the health of the planet. Does your Thanksgiving dinner make any difference in the vast and complicated context of greenhouse …