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Brevia: Harvard News in Brief
… disciplines. He is also a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Class of 2025. Given the pandemic, Harvard and other colleges did not … year just ended. Complete details appear at harvardmag.com/2025 - admits - 21 . Matthew Ichihashi Potts Photograph by …
Issue: July-August 2021
Global Health Pioneer Ophelia Dahl to Receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
Ophelia Dahl , a human rights and social justice advocate who co-founded the international public health nonprofit Partners In Health, will receive the 2023 Radcliffe Medal on May 26, the highest honor of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In a …
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker
… Class Day speaker,” Uzma Issa ’25, first marshal of the 2025 Class Committee, said in a news announcement. “He’s a … “It’s a privilege to share this moment with the Class of 2025 and to celebrate all that lies ahead,” Abdul-Jabbar …
2021 HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received the HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. James E. Bowers James E. Bowers, J.D. ’70, of West Hartford, Connecticut, has served as chair of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Reunion Gift Committee, and as a HLS …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard Resists Government Demands
… condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of … the highest stakes for academic freedom. Updated April 14,2025, 9:20 p.m .: In retaliation, the Joint Task Force to … to overhaul its hiring and admissions policies by August 2025 and subject them to “a comprehensive audit by the …
Commencement 2005
Commencement 2005 Speeches June 7, 2005 Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "Iraq" by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT and former director of the CIA June 8, 2005 Class Day Speech by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press June 9, 2005 Latin Salutatory: …
Hail Fellows!
Harvard Magazine welcomes juniors Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead and Swathi Kella to its editorial staff as the 2021-2022 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next issue, …
Issue: September-October 2021
Remembering Tom Lehrer
The passing of Tom Lehrer ’47, A.M. ’47, G ’66 on July 26 at the age of 97 was noted this week in The Washington Post , The New York Times , and many other publications. A mathematician by occupation, Lehrer penned devastating send-ups of contemporary …
Overseer and HAA Elected Director Slates
… Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the … board and alumni association candidates … 88564 … Harvard 2025 Overseer and HAA Directed Slates … 1524 … Overseer and …
Issue: March-April 2025
Behind the Scenes: Observing Subjects in Their Environments
one of the best parts about being a journalist is that you get to watch interesting people in their element. Whether it’s (literally) riding along with the Harvard polo team as they train for a match or watching a world-champion palindromist craft …
Behind the Scenes: Keeping up with COVID-19
The challenge of writing about the continuing pandemic , as the virologist Dan Barouch succinctly observed in a recent conversation, is that any news more than two weeks old is old news (or worse, no longer true). So, when I began to write a feature …
Brevia
Associate Justice Jackson As this issue went to press, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, J.D. ’96, was awaiting the U.S. Senate vote on confirming her appointment to the Supreme Court, succeeding Stephen G. Breyer, LL. B. ’64 (profiled in “A Workable Democracy,” …
Issue: May-June 2022
Reinforcing Harvard’s Finances
Just after placing $434 million of tax-exempt bonds to pay for capital projects , Harvard is returning to the market to borrow $750 million of taxable debt, fueling speculation about its uses for the funds. That speculation is understandable, in light of …
Honoris Causa
Six guests received honorary degrees on May 23. Interim provost John F. Manning introduced the honorands in the following order, and interim president Alan M. Garber read the citations. Learn more about each at harvardmag.com/honorands-24 . Gustavo …
Issue: July-August 2024
Harvard President Responds to Secretary of Education
The strained conversation between Harvard and the Trump administration continued in public view on Monday with a letter from President Alan M. Garber to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon. Garber’s letter noted that the University had changed …