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Research on Hold
Hours after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in research funding at Harvard, scientists across the University received sudden stop-work orders—halting projects on radiation exposure, ALS diagnostics, and tuberculosis treatment. The notices came …
Harvard Class of 2028 Demographics Disclosed
Joining other institutions , Harvard College today disclosed the demographic characteristics of the class of 2028—the first admitted since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2023 that outlawed consideration of race in admissions reviews. Of the 1,647 …
Harvard Forward Won’t Contest 2022 Overseers’ Election
Harvard Forward, which organized alumni to place petition candidates on the annual ballot for the Board of Overseers—and elected four younger Overseers, on a platform advocating divestment from fossil fuels, governance reform, and other changes, in 2020 …
Commencement and Alumni Annual Meeting Notice 2022
Commencement Exercises for the Class of 2022 Thursday, May 26, 2022 commencement.harvard.edu Since 1642, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed in the University. Degree candidates, …
Issue: March-April 2022
This is How Universities Die
… If American universities remain the envy of the world in 2025, the question must be: for how long? … 27509 … Higher …
Roche to Be Tenant in Allston
Roche, the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, announced this morning that it would create an innovation center at Harvard’s enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston. The firm, which employs 25,000 people in the United States and claims …
Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux
When the Harvard College class of 2027 gathered in Tercentenary Theatre on September 3 a year ago , they met a new lineup of leaders: Claudine Gay, the University’s thirtieth president; Hopi Hoekstra, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean , whom Gay had …
This Spring, Next Fall
… are expected on campus this fall, along with the class of 2025. Yale has already indicated that the atypically large …
Issue: May-June 2021
Understanding AI Vulnerabilities
… data become more important to mitigate these risks. As of 2025, businesses have embraced APIs more than ever, weaving …
Football: The 2022 Preview
Mercifully, the annual 42-week interlude between Harvard football games will end this Friday evening when the Crimson begins its 148th season by taking on Merrimack at Harvard Stadium. (Kickoff: 7 p.m. ) When we left you at the Yale Bowl last November 20, …
Harvard Slavery Descendants Program: What’s Next?
A month after the University laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program (HSRP), which for more than a year had been working to identify people enslaved by University affiliates and trace their descendants, Vice Provost for Special …
Photographs from Commencement Week 2023
On assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard Commencements for decades. During this 372nd Commencement—a return to near-normalcy, after the pandemic years—the large cohort of 2023 …
Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt
… Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall ( Harvard, 2025 ), Loker professor of English Stephanie Burt gives … queer people fought back against government oppression. In 2025, when discrimination against queer and especially trans …
Harvard Admits Record-Low 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2020
Harvard College announced today that 2,037 students have been offered admission to the class of 2020 ( including the 918 previously notified that they were granted early-action admission ). The College received 39,041 applications, up 4.6 percent from the …
Caroline Engelmayer’s 2020/2021 Address: Iter Perpetuum
Praeses Bacow, decani notissimi, professores doctissimi, familiae honoratissimae, hospites clarissimi, et tandem, vos, condiscipuli carissimi: salvete omnes. mihi magno honori est apud vos in hoc foro, quod Theatrum Tercentenarium appellamus, verba …