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Faculty Voices, Round Two
On January 31, President Alan M. Garber announced the inaugural members of his University Faculty Advisory Council, a two-year experiment announced last November as a means of bringing faculty views to bear on Harvard-wide issues. The council will meet …
The Endowment and the Environment: Year Three
Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s endowment, released its third annual climate report February 9. This series of reports began in 2021, a year after Harvard announced a “net-zero” target for carbon emissions in endowment …
Behind the Scenes: Medical robotics changing lives
Imagine yourself a successful young lawyer working in a Washington, D.C.-area firm. You are 33, with the bulk of your working years ahead of you, until one day you unexpectedly suffer a debilitating series of strokes. Years of rehabilitation and speech …
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
For her as-told-to biography of the late artist Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South , Erin D. Kelly , Ph.D. ’95, was honored with a Pulitzer Prize on Monday (Rembert, who died in 2021, was named posthumously …
Conferring and Confirming
Like the rest of the world, Harvard was ready to move past the pandemic this spring—but, Janus-like, kept peering back, too. The University planned a full-dress 371st Commencement extravaganza for the class of 2022 on May 26, and a similar “Commencement …
Issue: July-August 2022
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
COMMENCEMENT WEEK includes addresses by President Lawrence S. Bacow and actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks. For details and updates on event speakers, visit harvardmagazine.com/commencement . * * * Monday, May 22 Affinity Celebration honoring First …
Issue: May-June 2023
Crimson Campaigners
On the evening of November 5, as Harvard students gather to watch election results, some undergraduates will be more nervous than others. For them, the numbers will shape their communities’ and country’s political future—and will also determine whether …
Issue: September-October 2024
Brevia
Associate Justice Jackson As this issue went to press, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, J.D. ’96, was awaiting the U.S. Senate vote on confirming her appointment to the Supreme Court, succeeding Stephen G. Breyer, LL. B. ’64 (profiled in “A Workable Democracy,” …
Issue: May-June 2022
Behind the Scenes: Scholars' Differing Perspectives
Often, the hardest part about writing an article is knowing where to start . That difficulty emerges a few times in the process. First, who are the best interview subjects? When it’s time to write, how do you begin? Sometimes those answers are simple. …
Katori Hall Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Playwright Katori Hall , ART ’05, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama on Friday for The Hot Wing King , set in her hometown of Memphis. It follows a black gay couple and their extended family as they prepare recipes for competition in the city’s …
Harvard Admits 8.7 Percent of Undergraduate Early Applicants
Harvard College announced this evening that 692 of 7,921 early-action applicants were admitted to the class of 2028. This 8.7 percent acceptance rate compares to 7.5 percent in 2022 and 7.9 percent in 2021 . The number of early applicants is down …
Convocation 2023: The New Crew
This year’s Convocation, conducted on Monday, a summery, humid Labor Day afternoon, of course welcomed new students: the 1,650 or so members of the College class of 2027 (a return to a normal, pre-pandemic-sized first-year Crimson cohort). But they were …
News in Brief
… University conference center) are scheduled to open in late 2025 or early 2026. The photograph (taken from above …
Issue: September-October 2023
Taking Climate Action at Harvard
… how might the U.S. Congress pass a form of carbon tax in 2025? Those were among the high-priority, and admittedly … in the future. In the next session, “Carbon Pricing in 2025?” the discussion among U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse … during the Trump presidency are set to expire at the end of 2025, which could lead to a broad discussion of climate and …
Harvard, Ivies to Join Big Ten
… Big Ten announced that they would merge, effective in the 2025-26 academic year, and that the conference will … Fools Harvard Magazine … “Superconference” play begins in 2025-26 and will feature relegation. … Harvard, Ivies to …