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Proactive AI Policy
Artificial intelligence is developing faster than policymakers can keep up, and the gap in understanding between government and industry could pose challenges for effective regulation. But that doesn’t mean corporations should develop and deploy AI as …
American Jewish Life After October 7
Monday marked a year since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which ignited a war in the Middle East and a wave of pro-Palestine protests on American college campuses. Several campus events marked the anniversary, including a pair of discussions at the …
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The Humanities… While I totally agree with James Engell’s conclusions in “ Humanists All ” (January-February, page 34), the institution that he is writing from is the only platform in the United States that can effect such change. He should be directing …
Issue: March-April 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
Business School Dean Jay O. Light to Step Down
Harvard Business School (HBS) dean Jay O. Light announced today that he would relinquish his position at the end of the academic year . He will also retire from the faculty at that time. Light, D.B.A. ’70, who is Baker professor of business …
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… our mentors and classmates. Thinking of Harvard’s class of 2025 and future classes, we worry about what may become of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard College Announces Admissions, Term Bill
Harvard College announced today that 2,023 students have been offered admission to the class of 2018 ( including the 992 previously notified that they were granted early-action admission ). The College received 34,295 applications, down marginally from …
Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association has recognized three individuals as the 2020 Harvard Medalists, honoring their extraordinary service to the University. (The actual medal presentation, typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on Commencement day, has been …
Issue: July-August 2020
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 …
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
By the Book
Harvard’s 364th was a mannerly , by-the-book Commencement. After a year of campus protests seeking divestment from fossil-fuel investments, advocates let signs and buttons carry their message. The graduates-to-be, normally somewhat spontaneous, barely …
Issue: July-August 2015
From the Basket to the Beach
In June , Christine Mansour ’15 stepped onto the sand for Team USA at the beach handball world championships in Greece and noticed Denmark was implementing a punishing full-court press. Recalling her time on the women’s basketball team, Mansour made a …
“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 …
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
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 …