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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 …
Off the Shelf
Architects of an American Landscape , by Hugh Howard (Atlantic Monthly Press, $30). As Fredrick Law Olmsted, A.M. 1864, LL.D. ’93, was creating New York’s Central Park in the late 1850s, Henry Hobson Richardson, A.B. 1859, from New Orleans, was making his …
Issue: March-April 2022
Education School Dean Bridget Terry Long to Step Down
Bridget Terry Long announced today that she will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the end of this academic year. She has served in a leadership role at HGSE over the last decade, first as academic dean and then, …
Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
In the first half of the men’s basketball team’s November game against MIT, Noah Kirkwood ’22 leapt into the air and swatted a shot off the backboard. Then his defense turned to offense: sprinting down the center of the court, Kirkwood received an outlet …
Harvard’s Incredible Shrinking Executive-Education Programs
During the past decade of recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Harvard has enjoyed progressively robust growth in executive and continuing education—so much so that this “business” has come to play an important role in diversifying the …
New Fellows
This magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic year—selected from among nearly 30 applicants—will be Olivia Munk ’16 and Melanie Wang ’15. The fellows join the editorial staff and contribute to the magazine during …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Endowment Increases Modestly to $37.1 Billion During Early Stages of Overhaul
Performance highlights for fiscal 2017: •The endowment’s value stood at $37.1 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2017, an increase of $1.4 billion (3.9 percent) from $35.7 billion a year earlier . (The endowment had reached $37.6 billion at the …
Silent Study-Ins
Last December , approximately 100 pro-Palestine students filed into Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room, taped flyers to the back of their laptops, and read for an hour. This “study-in,” billed as “silent” and “non-disruptive” by the student organizers, …
New Fellows
The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2015-2016 academic year will be Jenny Gathright ’16 and Bailey Trela ’16. The fellows join the editorial staff and contribute to the magazine during the year, writing the “Undergraduate” …
Issue: September-October 2015
Community with Purpose
After graduating with an English literature degree, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, moved to Manhattan and joined Random House. Analytical and articulate, she enjoyed working with writers and promoting books. But it was the urban world outside the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Harvard Football Great Performances: Carroll Lowenstein ’52
Had the coronavirus not wiped out the Ivy League football season, coach Tim Murphy’s Harvard squad would be making the jaunt to Philadelphia to face Penn this Saturday in 2020’s penultimate game. In a series that began in 1881, the Crimson leads 49-39-2, …
An Enterprise Campus Emerges in Allston
Planning for Harvard’s expanded campus in Allston has been advancing this winter, as the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and University officials published two amendments to Harvard’s Institutional Master Plan for development, approved in 2013, as …
Artificial Intelligence in the Academy
How is artificial intelligence reshaping the notion of original scholarship? How are faculty using the technology in their research and teaching, and what are administrators doing with the tools to streamline their work? A May 1 symposium convened by …
At Home with Harvard: Health and Fitness
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the Movies
This is the second installment in Harvard Magazine ’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the first piece, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, here . Harvard may …