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An Expansive Vision for the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force (FTL), organized last year to assess what the University and its faculty members had learned from the pandemic pivot to remote instruction in the spring of 2020 and through the following academic …
Honoring Alumni Leaders
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) celebrates those who have made exceptional contributions to their local Harvard clubs and Shared Interest Groups (SIGs), and those organizations that have especially benefited their alumni communities. The 2021 …
Issue: March-April 2021
Will Harvard’s Campus Reopen for Fall?
As universities nationwide consider the options for reopening campuses this fall in light of the coronavirus pandemic, Alan M. Garber, the provost—who is a physician and medical scholar—disseminated a message this afternoon, outlining the considerations …
Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns
President Claudine Gay, who was named president in December 2022 , assumed office last July 1, and was formally installed in a Harvard Yard ceremony on September 29 , today announced her resignation. Provost Alan Garber will serve as interim president. …
Brevia
All Hands This was the roster on May 7 as the Harvard Kennedy School ceremonially broke ground on its campus renovation and expansion (shown above, left to right): Alan M. Garber, provost; David M. Rubenstein, chair of the school’s capital campaign and …
Issue: July-August 2015
Epstein-Barr Virus Implicated as Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
A team of researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) say they have discovered circumstantial evidence showing that multiple sclerosis is caused by infection with the Epstein-Barr virus. The research was published online today in …
"A Very Intimate and Painful Reckoning"
During her regular remarks at a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Tuesday, Dean Claudine Gay took a few moments to address a recent “difficult revelation” from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, about hundreds of hair clippings taken …
Harvard Files Brief in Affirmative Action Appeal
Harvard today filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case, Students for Fair Admisssions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The case centers on whether consideration of race and ethnicity should be allowed when admissions …
New Fellows
Joining the editorial staff this fall as the 2019-2020 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows are seniors Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass. They will contribute in print and online throughout the academic year, taking turns writing the …
Issue: September-October 2019
The State of the Libraries
Editor's note: Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton, the Harvard University Librarian since 2007, is retiring at the end of the academic year . This is the text of his remarks at a farewell celebration with members of the library community and …
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and actor John A. Lithgow ’67. For updated schedules, visit www.harvardmagazine.com or www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu . …
Issue: May-June 2005
Happy New (Academic) Year
The drought that fastened its grip on eastern Massachusetts during this hot summer may not be abating, but the calendar moves inevitably forward—toward the resumption of academic activity in a new school year. Members of the College class of 2020 are …
Courtney B. Vance Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
Actor , producer, and writer Courtney B. Vance ’82 will be the featured speaker at the third annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide celebration of alumni hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The event, which will take place on Friday, May …
At Home with Harvard: The Undergraduate
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 prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, and …
Poised for Partnerships
The new dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been in his post for barely a hundred days, but now, after listening to his faculty and meeting with leaders from across Harvard’s diverse schools and constituencies, …