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The Standoff: Harvard’s Future in the Balance
… M. Garber, statement to the University community, April 21, 2025 “Every time they fight, they lose another $250 … —Donald J. Trump, White House press conference, May 30, 2025 I never felt it necessary to provide support for an … eggs.” —Gerard Baker, The Wall Street Journal , June 2, 2025 Never have I been prouder! —Norton F. Tennille Jr., …
Issue: July-August 2025
Centralizing University Discipline
During the Israel-Palestine protests that occurred on the Harvard campus during the 2023-2024 academic year, a number of students broke University rules and were punished. But because the College and each of the graduate and professional schools maintain …
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
Poet Carl Phillips ’81 won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 , a collection that the prize committee called a “masterful” chronicle of American culture “as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of …
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 …
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
Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
… deferred admission last fall join the full-sized class of 2025 enrolling on schedule . They will be joined by …
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. …
Crypto—To Regulate or Not?
… This is exactly what has begun to happen has of February 2025. The administration under former President Joe Biden … U.S. the future “crypto capital of the world.” In January 2025, Trump signed an executive order entitled …
The Government Details Its Demands
Following the March 31 announcement that “a comprehensive review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University and its affiliates” would be undertaken to ensure “compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities,” …
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 …
The New Gender Gaps
Nick Cato has always liked working with his hands. Growing up in a small town just outside Hillsborough, North Carolina, he says, “I was always outside, messing around, building stuff, climbing trees.” He enjoyed reading, but he struggled in school, where …
Issue: May-June 2025
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
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 …
Harvard Sues Over Funding Freeze
On Monday, Harvard filed suit against the federal government, sending the battle between the University and the Trump administration to federal court. Harvard argued that the government’s funding freeze—threatening at least $2.2 billion in research grants …