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Football: Brown 31-Harvard 28
For all rookie coaches, there is a baptism by fire. Andrew Aurich, Harvard’s first-year coach , experienced his baptism last Saturday at Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium against lightly regarded Brown. There, in the Ivy opener for both teams, the …
Barer-Bones Budget
Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard's culture in much leaner University budgets for fiscal year 2005, beginning on July 1. Interviewed in her Massachusetts Hall office on the September day when the Boston Globe reported "MIT to cut …
Issue: November-December 2003
“Find Your Way to Heal This World”
At this year’s most unusual Freshman Convocation—broadcast on YouTube, with students living on campus instructed to “watch in your room/suite but…not gather in groups to watch”—dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana urged students to “commit to wearing a …
The Fish in Harvard Square
In the middle of Harvard Square, with pedestrians bustling by, there’s a fish sitting in a bathtub. He’s patient, watching everything unfold from behind a window. His name is Septimus, and he’s a sculptural character within Tired Clichés , a solo …
Antisemitism on Campuses
As Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and the ensuing war in the Middle East reverberated on college campuses, some academic departments felt the impacts more acutely than others. Professors of Jewish studies, antisemitism studies, and Israel studies …
Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence
I spent the first “post-pandemic” semester back on campus racked with homesickness. In retrospect, it was a familiar feeling: the same fog had descended upon me my first year at Harvard, in 2019. That was the first time I had been away from home for …
Issue: January-February 2023
Seeing Life
We live in an age of ecosystems —of life threatened on a planetary scale by climate change—and of genomes—of life analyzed at the molecular level, unveiling our own evolutionary history and the processes that underlie all of biology. Powerful though these …
Issue: March-April 2021
Cambridge 02138
Harvard Law I read with keen interest “ The Education of a Harvard Lawyer ” (January-February, page 38) by Nancy Boxley Tepper, my classmate. As I recall, she was one of five women in the class and I was one of three blacks. I noted with interest her …
Issue: March-April 2021
Reunions, Alumni Meeting to Be Virtual
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today notified members of reunion classes that their spring functions would be conducted virtually. In an email, Philip W. Lovejoy, HAA executive director, wrote: In consultation with University leadership and Harvard …
Brevia
Nobel Duo Harvard scholars received the highest accolades this October, when Farber professor of medicine William Kaelin was announced as co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals , looking ahead to Commencement 2005, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal Caleb Franklin, of Leverett House and Los Angeles; Sheria Smith, of Winthrop House and Gary, Indiana; Duncan Graham Wells, of Leverett House and Chevy …
Issue: May-June 2005
Change at the Top
Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since July 2014, will retire at the end of this year, concluding a quarter-century of Harvard service. The February announcement of his plans ensures a smooth introduction of …
Issue: May-June 2022
New Institutional Master Plan Unveiled
After 18 months of planning and community discussions, the University unveiled a new 10-year Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF) at the Harvard-Allston task force meeting on October 11, enumerating projects that administrators deemed to …
Will Spring Education Plans Slip?
As the coronavirus pandemic threatens public health and overwhelms hospitals around the country, University leaders sent a “sobering” note to the community today, noting that although “some of our Schools have announced that they intend to welcome back …
Crimson Red Ink
Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, published today, shows the initial, adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic as: revenue decreased by 3 percent, to $5.4 billion; and the University recorded a $10-million …