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Regearing Ph.D. Education
The acronymically burdened final report of the GAGE working group (GSAS Admissions and Graduate Education), released early in the fall semester, is in fact a vigorous and urgent overview of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ intellectually central Ph.D. …
Issue: January-February 2024
Smooth Start
Leaders of this and other campuses wracked by turmoil during the 2023-2024 academic year following the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war naturally approached this fall term warily. Would pro-Palestinian protestors again set up encampments, or …
Issue: November-December 2024
Parenting Digital Kids
When U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ’98 got his first cell phone in 2001, the ability to make calls anytime, anywhere gave him a “feeling of freedom.” Then he bought a headset. When calling someone no longer required him to hold the phone up to his …
Snuggling Up in the Square
Twinkling lights, charming storefronts, and cozy restaurants ready with something succulent to warm you up. Whether you’re gathering with friends over dinner or shopping for everyone on your list, the neighborhood delivers with enchantment, comfort, and …
Issue: November-December 2023
President Garber’s Agenda
During a conversation in his Massachusetts Hall office on a remarkably balmy Halloween afternoon, President Alan M. Garber was expansive about his academic aspirations for the University he has led on an interim basis since last January , and as president …
Harvard and MIT Sue to Overturn Order Banning International Students from Online Learning in Residence
Harvard and MIT this morning filed suit to prevent the federal government from enforcing a policy announced on July 6 that would prohibit international students from studying in the United States if their institutions offer only online instruction as …
Harvard Square Meals—and Beyond
Making a seasonal visit to Cambridge—for Commencement Week, alumni reunions, or just to check out the old stomping grounds? Here’s a select list of cafés and restaurants favored by Harvard Magazine staffers offering a diversity of settings and flavors. …
Issue: May-June 2024
Developing Dads
Dads are everywhere in our society. They are fundamental to many families and make excellent fodder for humor—I love Dad jokes. But becoming a biological father and “fathering” are two distinct undertakings. Paternal investment, when fathers provide …
Issue: May-June 2024
“Out of the Ashes”
In the middle of Shin Sang-ok’s 1958 film The Flower in Hell , a Korean woman dances for a group of American soldiers on a U.S. Army base in Seoul. Behind her, a band plays a cheery mambo. The camera seems to adopt the gaze of the soldiers, panning down …
Endowment Exit
On June 10 , two days before its fortieth-anniversary celebration, Harvard Management Company (HMC)—which invests the University endowment and other assets—announced that Jane L. Mendillo, president and chief executive officer since July 2008, would …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Charters Sexual-Assault Task Force
In the wake of an anonymous undergraduate’s personal account of an unwanted sexual encounter, published earlier this week in The Harvard Crimson and alleging antiquated and insensitive treatment at the hands of administrators, President Drew Faust this …
The Week’s Words
“The Rule of Truth” In a year of harsh attacks on higher education, and worrisome erosions of academic freedom, Drew Gilpin Faust, president emerita, focused her May 21 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) oration on the values and worth of universities, and the threats …
Issue: July-August 2024
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvard’s endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.8 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Harvard’s Sober Annual Financial Report
Shaped as it is by the conventions of accounting, an institution’s annual financial report rarely reads like a novel. But the University’s financial report for fiscal year 2012 (ended last June 30), released today, manages to read like two novels—or at …
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s 373 rd Commencement exercises, scheduled for …