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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 …
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in her youth (“My Brief Career in Reality Television”) to tell the community something about herself, her academic trajectory, and her …
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 …
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
Linda Greenhouse ’68 covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times for 30 years (winning a Pulitzer Prize for her work). Now, continuing to observe the court from a post at Yale, she has crafted a quick history of the year of Amy Coney Barrett’s …
Issue: November-December 2021
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 …
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 …
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
Fraught Finances
Amid an historic expansion, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) must now come to terms with the costs of its growth. An anticipated deficit of $40 million-plus in the fiscal year ending this June 30 was disclosed at the January 10 faculty meeting; that …
Issue: March-April 2006
Hearing the Faculty’s Voice
Although the campus is far calmer this fall than last , differences of opinion about Harvard’s direction and leadership continue to divide the governing boards and senior administrators from some significant portion of the faculties. Recent actions by the …
The Context: Affirmative Action and Harvard
This is the seventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. “Can Affirmative Action Survive?” That’s the …
Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
On Tuesday , former women’s hockey coach Katey Stone, who retired 13 months ago in the wake of fierce complaints from former players about emotional abuse, filed a lawsuit against Harvard in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleging gender …
Sean Kelly Named Dean of Arts and Humanities
Sean Kelly, Martignetti professor of philosophy, has been appointed dean of the division of arts and humanities within Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. He succeeds Burden professor of photography Robin Kelsey, who has led the …
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
News Briefs
Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has been elected senior fellow, succeeding William F. Lee ’72, effective July 1. She will be the first woman leader of the University’s fiduciary governing board. Penny …
Issue: May-June 2022
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 …