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What Harvard’s Senior Executives Earned Last Year
The University today released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2014 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015— Harvard’s fiscal year 2015 ). As is its practice, Harvard has simultaneously disseminated information …
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?
Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much? Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a political scientist and legal scholar whose research focuses on gerrymandering, explains its effect on American democracy and how it might be stopped. Topics include recent state laws …
Exceeding Expectations
This year marks the 150th anniversary of football at Harvard. (Because the 2020 Ivy League campaign was canceled due to COVID, this is the 149th season of play.) But entering the 2023 season, the outlook for the Crimson was murky. In the century and a …
Issue: November-December 2023
In Flight
In the fall of 2015, Maciek Nabrdalik , a Warsaw-based documentary photographer, turned to a contemporary humanitarian crisis: the plight of refugees fleeing ceaseless wars. Nabrdalik, a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard this year, is studying …
Issue: January-February 2017
At Home with Harvard: Nature Walks
This is the fifth installment in Harvard Magazine’ s new 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 Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and spring …
Sleep Deprivation in America
Sleepless in America , a television program on the current epidemic of sleep deprivation, will air on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, November 30, at 8 p.m. EST. A wide range of illnesses and accidents—crashes involving drowsy drivers are an …
Brevia
Another Nobelist Thomas C. Schelling University of Maryland Joining Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, and MIT chemist Richard R. Schrock, Ph.D. ’72, as Nobel honorands this year (see “ Premier Physicist ,” November-December …
Issue: January-February 2006
King, Kirschner Named University Professors
Quantitative social scientist Gary King and systems biologist Marc Kirschner have been named University Professors. King becomes the Weatherhead University Professor, succeeding the late Samuel P. Huntington. Kirschner becomes the Enders University …
Bringing Art to Life
In October 2021 , Cecilia Zhou ’23 sat in her bedroom and painted her face black and white. She meticulously striped the colors across her chin, cheeks, and forehead, checking the angles in her camera. Zhou was not mimicking a zebra or a penguin: she was …
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A genetic analysis of African Americans who labored at a Revolutionary War-era forge for the first time connects ancient DNA to living people who have shared their data in a genealogical database. Researchers used techniques originally developed for …
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
This past April, Bonnie Tsui ’99 broke two ribs in a surfing injury. She had stayed out too long on a wave at the beach near her house—riding it in, holding on to the motion and the water, trying to live in that moment for as long as she could. “And then …
Issue: July-August 2021
Protesters Surround Mass. Hall in “Heat Week” Action
Two dozen students from the activist group Divest Harvard blockaded the doors of Massachusetts Hall early on Sunday evening, kicking off a weeklong protest of the University endowment’s continued investment in fossil-fuel companies. Harvard Heat Week …
Lester Named New Yorker Managing Editor
Amelia Lester ’05 has been named managing editor of the New Yorker , the New York Observer reported yesterday. As a Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , Lester, a native of Sydney, Australia, wrote her first column for the …
Football: Harvard 31-Dartmouth 27
On a weekend during which we turned the clock back, the Dartmouth football team desperately attempted to turn it back exactly five years, to November 2, 2019. At Harvard Stadium on that benighted Saturday, the Big Green successfully employed a Hail Mary …
A “Romper Room” Diploma
Speaking at Memorial Church’s semester-opening Morning Prayers today for the first time as Harvard’s president , Claudine Gay continued to tell members of the University community about their new leader. In so doing, she added to the personal details in …