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Bodies in Motion
Grooving , diving, dancing, and flipping, the bodies caught in gravity-defying motion in New Formations feel breathtakingly alive. The show, at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park through March 13, reflects on the aesthetic nature of physicality …
Issue: January-February 2023
A Decade of Faculty Diversity
Every year , Harvard tracks the diversity of its faculties in terms of race and gender, with the goal of increasing its numbers of female and minority faculty members. Since a decade ago, when more than two-thirds of tenured professors and nearly one-half …
Thrice Titled
Three minutes and 36 seconds had elapsed in the 132nd Harvard-Yale game at the Yale Bowl, and the good work of the first eight weeks of the 2015 season was unraveling. The Crimson, which the previous week had lost to Penn (Harvard’s first defeat in 23 …
Issue: January-February 2016
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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
The Federal Fisc
… in 2017 will be allowed to expire as scheduled after 2025; if, instead, those tax cuts are made permanent, as …
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Issue: May-June 2020
Harvard in the Interim
Harvard ’s new normal began to take shape during the spring semester. New Corporation fellows were appointed (see “News in Brief,” this issue, page 23). Long-time provost Alan M. Garber, who had moved a few yards within Massachusetts Hall on January 2, …
Issue: May-June 2024
At Home with Harvard: Spring Blooms
A t a time when social distancing has changed everyone’s life, all of us working remotely from Harvard Magazine find it important to get outside for exercise and to clear our heads. Especially now, when the seasons are beginning to turn in eastern …
Tough Love
Harvard and other celebrated research universities “succeed, better than ever, as creators and repositories of knowledge,” declares Harry R. Lewis, dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, in Excellence without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot …
Issue: July-August 2006
Football: Harvard 26-Columbia 6
On Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team supplied precisely the right amount of drama for a team hoping to remain in first place: none. In cruising to a 26-6 win over Columbia, the Crimson—either No. 24 or No. 25 in the Football Championship …
History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits
Everyone has jitters in the moments before a mass-start cross-country ski race, and for good reason. When the gun goes off, dozens of competitors, with just a few feet of space between them, simultaneously accelerate—kicking and gliding forcefully as they …
Issue: March-April 2022
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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
News in Brief
Decanal Duo… A professor returning to Harvard and one in continuing service have been appointed to lead Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS). President …
Issue: November-December 2023
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
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 …
Sarah Ganz Blythe New Art Museums Director
Sarah Ganz Blythe , deputy director, exhibitions, education, and programs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD), has been appointed Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums effective August 12, interim provost John Manning announced today. …