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The “Wild West” of Cancer Misinformation Online
… followers had embraced her (often dangerous) claims. In 2025, Netflix released a dramatized series about her life, … Center for Global Cancer Prevention, for World Cancer Week 2025—moderator Malika Marshall, a medical reporter for …
President Lawrence S. Bacow to Step Down in 2023
Lawrence S. Bacow, the University’s twenty-ninth president , announced today that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that began in 2018 , when he succeeded Drew Gilpin Faust. The Announcements In a …
Brevia
… for pandemic-affected applications to the classes of 2025 and 2026, will continue for the next four years (read …
Issue: March-April 2022
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
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: …
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 …
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
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
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
Poet Carl Phillips ’81 won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 , a collection that the prize committee called a “masterful” chronicle of American culture “as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of …
Reopening. . .Carefully
… for the class of 2024 last year, and then the class of 2025’s in the traditional way. The latter, still …
Issue: November-December 2021
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 …
Increasing Access
Harvard Magazine has long published commentaries from the president on matters that are timely and relevant to the life of the University. In an era of rapid news cycles, it can be challenging to craft copy that made sense given the long lead times for …
Allston Ambitions
At a public meeting on December 16, Harvard presented its 10-year institutional development plans for Allston, detailing anticipated construction and renovations through 2034. The University owns approximately 358 acres of land in Allston, but the …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
Harvard College Reinstitutes Mandatory Testing
… for applicants, beginning with students applying for fall 2025 admission (the class of 2029). Until today’s decision, …