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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, …
When free isn't free...
During its first century, Harvard Magazine was, well, a magazine. But since 1996 we’ve tried to serve you by becoming, as well: a website a vigorous online news source (with timely articles reported and edited to our highest standards) an email …
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… funding course development; it plans universal coverage by 2025.…Brown University has announced BrownConnect, to make …
Issue: January-February 2015
Who’s News
Pfoho Leaders Stanton professor of the First Amendment Erica Chenoweth and lecturer in public policy Zoe Marks, both of the Harvard Kennedy School, have been appointed faculty deans of Pforzheimer House effective July 1, joined by their daughter Vera. The …
Issue: July-August 2023
The End of Shopping Week
During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 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 a …
Issue: July-August 2022
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 …
Club and Alumni Interest Group Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards recognize individual and shared-interest groups that have made exceptional contributions to their Harvard communities. Recipients of this year’s Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award are Alice Abarbanel ’66, Louis Edozien ’81, …
Issue: November-December 2023
In Defense of Academic Freedom
“These are complicated days,” said Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt professor of physics, on Tuesday morning, as he welcomed the audience in Sanders Theatre to the 231st Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, which marks the traditional start to Commencement …
Wheat and War in Ukraine
In 1933, Joseph Stalin engineered a genocide that led to the death by starvation of an estimated four million Ukrainians. Stalin set unreachable grain production quotas on farmers, and then, when the quotas were not met, confiscated all the grain to feed …
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Allston Developer Designated Harvard Allston Land Company announced in December that Tishman Speyer, led by president and CEO Rob Speyer ’91, has been chosen to develop the initial 14 acres of the 36-acre “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue, …
Issue: March-April 2020
Agree to Disagree
Last year, in the midst of all of the turmoil on campus in the aftermath of October 7, I sat down to dinner with a Muslim friend. With so many of our peers facing threats of doxxing, she told me how stressful it was to even walk to class from her dorm …
Issue: July-August 2025
Chan Zuckerberg Commits $500 Million to Harvard Neuroscience and AI Institute
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founders and co-CEOs Mark Zuckerberg ’06, L.L.D. ’17 and Priscilla Chan ’07, announced today a gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. The new institute, which …
Here Comes the Sun
The sun is shining, temps are rising, and normalcy seems almost on the horizon. It’s the perfect time to get out and explore—safely—at al fresco venues beyond the city limits . If you’re seeking thrills, head an hour north to Salisbury Beach State …
Issue: July-August 2021
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
Plans are underway to create “exciting, dynamic programming” for the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) newly reorganized annual meeting on June 3, according to executive director Philip Lovejoy. The decision to move the 152 nd meeting, traditionally held …
Issue: January-February 2022
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 …