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Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment
UPDATE: May 10, 12:15 P.M. This morning , Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) announced on Instagram that “Harvard has started sending out suspension notices” to students in the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard. Involuntary leave prevents …
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 …
Campus, Interrupted
A New Harvard Experience by Rebecca E.J. Cadenhead Like many first-years, I arrived at college ready to be molded. Correspondingly, it seemed as though the University was ready to subsume me; by catering to almost every need it ensured that I stayed …
Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard’s Lowered Voice
In late May , when Harvard adopted the recommendation of its Institutional Voice Working Group —that the University and its leaders should not make official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the core academic functions of …
Can Financial Crises Be Predicted?
In his memoir of the 2008 financial crisis, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner wrote that such crises are like “earthquakes”—they “cannot be reliably predicted, so they cannot be reliably prevented.” Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben …
Issue: January-February 2021
Brevia
Design Dean Sarah Whiting, a Yale alumna who earned her master of architecture degree from Princeton and her Ph.D. from MIT—and was a design critic and assistant and associate professor at the Graduate School of Design at the turn of the …
Issue: July-August 2019
A “Scholar’s Scholar”
Claudine Gay arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1992 as a first-year graduate student, lugging the things that seemed most essential to her success: a futon, a Mac Classic II, and a cast iron skillet for frying plantains. The futon, no doubt, was …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Fiscal Norm
The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 and detailed in the annual financial report released in late October, mirrors the outcome of the prior year: Harvard again operated in the black, following a couple of years of small deficits. In …
Issue: January-February 2016
At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America
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 the climate crisis, racial justice, Pride month, …
Boosting Teacher Training
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) —renowned for research spanning early-childhood learning and college accessibility, and for training education leaders and policymakers—is making major progress on its redesigned program to equip teachers for …
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Public History, Locally Kudos to Drew Faust for her reflections on Clint Smith’s excellent new book, How The Word Is Passed (“ Getting Close to the Past ,” November-December 2021, page 57). Smith illustrates so clearly the vital importance of public …
Issue: January-February 2022
Room for the Arts?
Photograph by Jim Harrison Facing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe Institute in 2005, Harvard College dean Benedict Gross has appointed a committee to explore accommodating the dance program within the Quadrangle Recreational Athletics …
Issue: November-December 2003
At Home with Harvard: The Art of the Profile
Profiles are one of Harvard Magazine ’s most often written genres—and certainly one of our most popular. In nearly every issue, we publish longform profiles of Harvard faculty and alumni, covering how they became who they are, their interests, what makes …
Overseers’ Overhaul
On August 21, the University announced the results of the pandemic-delayed 2020 voting for members of the Board of Overseers. Alumni elected Raphael William Bostic and Tracy K. Smith: two of the eight candidates put forward by the Harvard Alumni …
Issue: November-December 2020
Football: Harvard 45, Georgetown 0
The tiredest fellow at Harvard Stadium last Friday night may well have been Kenny Smart ’18. The Crimson placekicker had a full evening of work, having swung his right leg on the game’s opening kickoff, six successful point-after-touchdown conversions and …