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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 …
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 “Dangers and Duties that Lie Ahead”
“American higher education is endangered,” declared Porter University Professor and Harvard president emerita Drew Gilpin Faust during a forceful oration Tuesday morning at the 232nd Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre that was …
Harvard Coop’s Changing of the Guard
The Harvard Coop announced today that CEO Jerry Murphy ’73, M.B.A. ’77, will retire on September 1, concluding a Harvard Square career that began when he joined the historic retailer in 1991 after earlier experience at Neiman Marcus. He will be succeeded …
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 …
Allston, Beyond the Groundbreaking
The week after a groundbreaking ceremony on the site of the future enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston, Harvard Magazine spoke with Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC) CEO Carl Rodrigues—the University’s point person for the commercial development …
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
Beyond Sufferers and Dreamers
In Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s 2024 novel Catalina, the titular protagonist—a spirited Harvard senior juggling schoolwork, romance, and her and her grandparents’ undocumented immigration status—feels a certain affinity for former Secretary of State …
Issue: September-October 2025
Two Harvardians Win MacArthur Fellowships
Two Harvard alumnae are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows announced today. Dorothy Roberts, J.D. ’80, is a legal scholar and public policy researcher who studies racial inequality in health and social service systems. A faculty member at the University of …
“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 …
Made in Germany
Disorienting and unexpected , a white room with a checkered carpet is turned sideways: tables are bound to the wall, and the wall lies at viewers’ feet. This room, collapsed and contorted, symbolizes the home within a collapsed East German state. The …
HAA Clubs Committee Awards
The HAA Clubs Committee presents two annual awards for contributions to Harvard clubs. Recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Club Contribution Award are: William D. (“Dren”) Geer Jr. ’56, of Sarasota, Florida. Geer has been active on the Harvard Club of …
Issue: March-April 2006
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 …
An Afternoon of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
A Friends of Harvard Magazine event was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2005 at the Arnold Arboretum. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, former director of the collections and instructor at the Graduate School of Design presented a short program which …
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 …