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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
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 …
Endowment Insights
Last February , three Republican members of Congress sent a questionnaire to the 56 private universities and colleges with endowments valued at $1 billion or more, seeking information about those endowments, investments, financial aid, and financial …
Issue: July-August 2016
Martha Tedeschi to Lead Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums has named Martha Tedeschi its new Cabot director, effective July 2016. She succeeds Thomas W. Lentz, Ph.D. ’85, who left last July. Tedeschi has spent her entire professional career at the Art Institute of Chicago, arriving as an …
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 …
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
Jane Rosenzweig
In 2022, Jane Rosenzweig published an op-ed in the Boston Globe, “What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing”—the first of several she’s produced about artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. The director of the Harvard College Writing Center and a …
Issue: January-February 2025
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
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
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 …
Controlling the Global Thermostat
Climate change may be the most inexorable catastrophe the human species has ever faced. What to do about the warming is dominated by uncertainties—and a pervasive inability to agree on who should do what in response. Can humanity agree to meet its energy …
Issue: November-December 2020
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
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 …
Five Questions with Paris Olympian Graham Blanks ’25
runner graham blanks '25 spoke about his experience earning a New Balance sponsorship in the November-December feature " The End of the Ivy League? " Harvard Magazine asked the economics and philosophy concentrator from Athens, Georgia, who placed ninth …
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