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FAS Dean’s Academic Priorities—and Financial Constraints
In presenting her annual report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this afternoon, during the first faculty meeting of the academic year, Dean Claudine Gay outlined her priorities within the context of the FAS’s intellectual and financial …
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. …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Colton Chapple ’13
Had the coronavirus not scrambled the Harvard gridiron season along with so much else in our lives, we would be embarking on Ivy League football in earnest, with the final five games of the 2020 campaign against rivals from the Ancient Eight. The first of …
Black Students Speak
“Black students were always watching,” historian Jarvis Givens told listeners Tuesday evening during an online discussion of his newest book, School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness . A professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of …
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Computing and Humans Thank you for Harry R. Lewis’s “ Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity ” (July-August, page 38). I wish everyone who has or uses a computer would read it. We lost the game when we adopted the term “Artificial Intelligence.” …
Issue: September-October 2024
Fraught Fall
The scary thing was how normal everything had come to seem, in a little more than five months. First-year students and their families moved into an all-but-deserted Harvard Yard, with traffic officers routing lone cars and enforcing the 20-minute …
Issue: November-December 2020
A Presidency’s Early End
After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were pursued, the Harvard presidency of Lawrence H. Summers will end on June 30. Throughout his administration, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Football: Harvard 34, Georgetown 3
In gridiron lore, Notre Dame has the Four Horsemen. Fordham boasts the Seven Blocks of Granite. Now, Harvard has the Five Road Graders. From tackle to tackle on the offensive line, left to right they are: Adam Redmond ’16, Mic Mancinelli ’15, Nic Easton …
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Summer Touchups In addition to the previously reported sprucing-up of Massachusetts Hall’s systems ( “Building Unabated,” May-June, page 24), the Stadium’s concrete walls and steps underwent repairs, beginning this spring, that are scheduled to conclude …
Issue: July-August 2018
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Science Center Schematic Harvard planners have introduced the design for the science and engineering complex in Allston , encompassing 586,000 square feet of new construction and repurposed space at 114 Western Avenue. The new building will house much of …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard Great Performances: Andrew Fischer ’16
Saturday would have been the 137th edition of The Game. But for the first time since the wartime year of 1944, it will not be played. (Harvard trails, 60-68-8.) One fellow I know, from the Class of ’72, plans to show up at Soldiers Field anyway, simply to …
Staff Pick: Boston Book Festival
This year, instead of drawing 30,000 people for a wild weekend of in-person literary immersion, the annual Boston Book Festival will spread mostly online sessions over several weeks in October. Some 35 events are planned, including author readings and …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Uses of Discomfort
“As we sit here tonight, we are not just spectators, but active participants,” Roeshana Moore-Evans, executive director of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, told those gathered Tuesday evening at the Cambridge Public Library for the first in …
Mitigating Global Threats
Amid leadership crises across Europe and mounting economic and defense concerns, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, M.P.A. ’97, is on the front lines of diplomacy, working with allies to do “everything we can to promote a global security …
Issue: March-April 2025
“Theater Is Church”
In one scene of Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King, the characters sing all of “Never Too Much” by Luther Vandross—and each night at New York’s Signature Theatre, large segments of the audience joined in. “Luther Vandross is a musical icon for black people …
Issue: July-August 2020