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The Uses of Discomfort
“As we sit here tonight, we are not just spectators, but active participants,” Roeshana Moore-Evans, executive director of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, told those gathered Tuesday evening at the Cambridge Public Library for the first in …
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
This is the third 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 two pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and Harvardians …
Jeffrey Epstein’s Extensive Harvard Reach
The Harvard General Counsel’s office, charged last September by President Lawrence S. Bacow to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s gifts to and relationship with the University, found that his financial support did not extend past his conviction on sex charges …
Issue: July-August 2020
Social Media Use and Adult Depression
Parenting teenagers in 2022 generally entails worrying about their use of platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok; multiple studies point to links between social-media use and anxiety and depression among children and adolescents. Yet a new …
Issue: March-April 2022
Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute
T he University announced this morning that Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, has made a $350-million gift to support the research of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering—his fourth: a start-up gift of $125 million in 2008 (then the largest …
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Heading home James E. Ryan , who left the University of Virginia’s law school to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in September 2013, will return to Charlottesville as president of UVA, effective October 1. Ryan has had signal …
Issue: November-December 2017
The College’s Strong Admissions Yield
harvard College announced today that nearly 77 percent of students offered admission to the class of 2015 accepted—up from 75.5 percent last year. Harvard reported in March that 2,158 applicants (out of 34,950) had been offered admission—a record-low rate …
Immigrant Workers— America’s Engine?
Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues of the 2024 presidential election campaign—but not a new point of contention in America politics. From the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, waves of immigrants, mainly from Europe, …
“Something Is Very Broken”
Telling the broccoli story, even now, makes Usha Thakrar burn. It was nearly dark, she recalls, when a 53-foot tractor trailer packed with the fresh produce rolled into Stonefield Farm, headquarters of the Boston Area Gleaners, in exurban Acton. As …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Professor James Hanken on the Amphibian Extinction Crisis
The Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology is one of the oldest museums in the United States–but part of its immense collection remains tucked away, constantly in use but never displayed to the public. Hidden below those towering floors of …
Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise will Retire in June
Nichols Family director of athletics Robert L. Scalise will retire at the end of this academic year, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Claudine Gay wrote in a message to the FAS community today. The announcement comes during a comprehensive …
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Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. ’76, J.D. ’79, won’t find much in his College class reports. The summa cum laude …
Issue: September-October 2005
Painful Questions from Indigenous Leaders
At a Radcliffe Institute conference intended to launch the process of making amends for Harvard’s long history of injustice against indigenous communities—detailed in a 2022 University report —the biggest agenda item wasn’t listed in the official program: …
At Home with Harvard: Election Day
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 previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, alumni …
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Arts and Sciences Leader Claudine Gay (above) became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on August 15, succeeding Michael D. Smith , who had completed 11 years of service. Gay, Cowett professor of government and of African and African American …
Issue: September-October 2018