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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 …
Antisemitism on Campus—And Beyond
Sunday afternoon , September 22, hundreds of Harvard community members donning miniature Israeli flags and hostage dog tags filed into Sanders Theatre for a summit about antisemitism and anti-Zionism on campus. The high-security gathering was organized by …
Alan Garber’s Opening Words
In a message to the Harvard community on Thursday morning, as students were returning for the start of classes next week, President Alan M. Garber offered a welcome—and an admonition. He asked those coming back to campus to seek “enlightenment, …
New Graduate School Dean
Allan M. Brandt has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). A professor of the history of science in FAS, Brandt holds a joint appointment as Kass professor of the history of …
Vote Now
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open through May 16. Degree …
Issue: May-June 2023
Football: Yale 23-Harvard 18
As so often happens, The Game this year ended with the quarterback of the trailing team trying one desperation pass that, if successful, would turn defeat into victory. On Saturday at the Yale Bowl it was Harvard’s sophomore Jaden Craig, in fourth-and-14 …
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
University People
Currier House Chiefs Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, and attorney Sylvia Barrett, A.L.B. ’95, have been appointed faculty deans of Currier House (the first leaders appointed to that post since the title was changed …
Issue: July-August 2016
Racial Bias and Redistricting
Since late last year, legislators and independent commissions across the United States have been busy redrawing the contours of American democracy. The redistricting process occurs once every decade and is used to create new voting district boundaries …
Issue: March-April 2022
Will Congress Fix the Testing Debacle?
As Congress raced to craft a coronavirus stimulus bill in the second week of December, the question foremost on epidemiologist Michael Mina’s mind was whether funding for accelerated production of rapid tests—$1 paper tests that can be used in the home to …
You’ve Got Game
It’s no secret that Harvard alums are an athletic bunch, from Olympians to coaches to legendary sportswriter Roger Angell ’42, who died last month at 101. Whether you’re a pro, a hobbyist, or finally ready to get moving after two-plus years in a pandemic, …
Issue: July-August 2022
Brevia
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
Freedom from Food
When Juna Gjata ’17 was growing up, everyone she knew seemed to be on a diet. Weight-conscious adults ordered salads with dressings on the side, requested coffee without milk or sugar, and ate unflavored rice cakes. Her high-school friends followed along. …
Issue: September-October 2022
University Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Harvard aims to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent in the next eight years, President Drew Faust announced today. The University has already committed to ambitious environmental goals for the new Allston campus, but this is the first …
“The Heart of Teaching”
Howard Gardner ’65, Ph.D. ’71, first walked through Radcliffe Yard, where he today addressed the Graduate School of Education’s class of 2024, as a College freshman in 1961. Since then, the Hobbs research professor of cognition and education reflected, …