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January-February 2025
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Behind the Scenes: The Article-Writing Process
Please consider supporting our work so we can continue to bring you the in-depth and quality reporting behind every article in Harvard Magazine . Thank you! Read Nancy’s referenced articles: “ The Happiness Revolutionary ” Arthur Brooks moved …
Convocation 2022: Grow in Wisdom
On Tuesday afternoon, at Freshman Convocation, Harvard College’s newest incoming class was welcomed with a mixture of good wishes and stiff warnings, drawn in part from the troubled national politics of today. It was the first back-to-normal Convocation …
Nicole Maestas
During Nicole Maestas’s Napa Valley childhood, everything was grapes. Though her father worked in the wine finance business, the future MacArthur professor of economics and health care policy showed interest in neither farming nor money. At Wellesley …
Issue: July-August 2025
Danielle Allen Debates Far-Right Blogger Curtis Yarvin
On Monday , controversial far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin came to Cambridge to debate Harvard political scientist Danielle Allen . It was an unlikely pairing. Allen is a scholar of and advocate for democracy. Yarvin wants to replace the U.S. government …
Harvard ROTC Graduates Told of Churchill, Constitution
In a time of “accelerating change and increasing challenges,” U.S. Army Lieutenant General Joseph “JP” McGee told Harvard’s 19 ROTC graduates on May 28, the armed services need “your skills and your leadership more critically than ever.” McGee would …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2020-2021 Fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ’s 2020-2021 cohort, announced today, includes 42 fellows representing six countries. The acceptance rate for the incoming class was 2.8 percent, from a pool of nearly 1,400 applicants. Radcliffe is planning a …
The Faculty’s Fears
The agenda for the April 1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting was routine: voting on letter-grading of some required undergraduate courses , a program name change, an in camera discussion of a committee report on student discipline . But under the …
College Admits 7.5 Percent of Early Applicants
Today , 722 of 9,553 early-action applicants were admitted to the College class of 2027. This 7.5 percent acceptance rate is slightly lower than last year’s 7.9 percent . Of the admitted cohort, 14 percent come from first-generation college backgrounds, …
Harvard College Admits Class of 2028
Harvard College today offered regular admission to 1,245 applicants to the class of 2028; combined with the 692 early-action applicants granted admission in December , 1,937 of the 54,008 applicants to the class (3.6 percent) were granted admission. The …
Cambridge 02138
… allow car culture to do so much harm.W hen the March-April 2025 issue of the magazine arrived, I eagerly turned to the … Baker ‘72 Branford, Conn. The article in the March-April 2025 issue, “Safe Streets: Working to Curb Road Deaths,” … pursuing that topic here, I will only note that in January 2025 Harvard officially adopted the IHRA (International …
Issue: May-June 2025
FAS Dean Outlines Preparations for Loss of Federal Funding
… At the last regular faculty meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year on Tuesday, Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
In the wake of the Israel-Palestine protests during the 2023-2024 academic year—especially the pro-Palestinian encampment in Harvard Yard during April and May—the University faced further challenges pertaining to its opaque and seemingly inconsistent …
Photographs from Commencement Week
On assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard Commencements for decades. In this most unusual of Commencement years, celebrating the class of 2022 with an in-person graduation, and …
Board of Overseers and HAA Candidates Finalized
… The University has announced the finalized 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers and the …