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After Slavery Report, What Next?
The hard part has barely begun. That was the reality that kept surfacing last Friday during an all-day conference at the Radcliffe Institute exploring questions raised by the 130-page report Harvard released last week documenting the University’s …
University People
Danielle S. Allen Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Dani Rodrik Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC Honor Roll Conant University Professor Danielle S. Allen has been awarded the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The prize, announced …
Issue: September-October 2020
An Astronomer's Desert Photography
At twilight, the bulbous hoodoos and sculpted plateaus of the Sonoran Desert lose their depth, standing like cardboard cutouts against the dim blue sky. The illusion lasts only a few minutes, but that’s when photographer Stephen Strom ’62, Ph.D. ’64 is in …
Issue: July-August 2022
Ballots, Please
This spring, Harvard degree holders can vote for new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). For detailed coverage of the Overseer candidates’ views, read their responses to Harvard Magazine …
Issue: May-June 2022
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Ukraine Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy perpetuates the claim that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022 was “unprovoked” (“ The Return of History ,” September-October, page 33). But NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg himself refuted that in …
Issue: November-December 2023
Blockmate Backstories
This year will mark the second time Harvard hosts its annual Housing Day for first-year students online—last year, in the rush of campus closing, and this year, with more time to prepare. On Friday, the College will reveal each freshman’s assigned House …
Extracurriculars
The University and its environs offer a robust mix of activities this fall, ranging from watching boat races on the Charles River and feasting on bratwurst in the Square to viewing rare images by Ansel Adams and attending a reading by President Lawrence …
Issue: September-October 2005
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The Tardigrade Moment Regarding the cover of the January-February issue, that’s exactly how I felt on New Year’s Day. William D. Gould Jr., M.B.A. ’65 Baltimore Re: Harvard Magazine’ s January-February cover: How in the world did you manage to get such an …
Issue: March-April 2020
(More) March Madness
While winning five consecutive Ivy League championships from 2011-2015, the Harvard men’s basketball team twice participated in a one-game playoff to decide who would receive the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament: a heartbreaking 63-62 loss to …
Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance
Two sets of protestors briefly interrupted interim president Alan M. Garber’s remarks during the Alumni Day celebration on Friday, May 31, as he and other speakers acknowledged Harvard’s divisions and difficult year and emphasized the importance of …
Sidney Verba, and a Classy Class Reporter
A Mensch. In the Memorial Minute on the life of the late Sidney Verba, a prominent government scholar, presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in March, it was observed that as a youth, “He was unaware of Harvard until his public high school …
Issue: July-August 2021
At Home with Harvard: Medical Breakthroughs
This is the seventh installment in Harvard Magazine ’s 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, famous and …
The Green Star State
The cost of producing renewable energy from both wind and sun continues to fall, prompting a boom in sustainable electricity production. But this has also led to an auspicious problem: what to do with the excess energy produced from sustainable sources? …
Issue: March-April 2025
A Call to Service
Near the start of his address, journalist Jim Lehrer, who collects bus memorabilia, gave a splendid rendition of a Trailways boarding call, which can be heard with RealPlayer [ link to archived video of the afternoon exercises ]. Then he got serious. I …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard Football Great Performances: Charlie Brickley ’15
This Saturday the Harvard football team was supposed to be visiting Easton, Pennsylvania, to play Lafayette of the Patriot League. Instead, we will have to fill the void with another road trip to yesteryear. In early November of 2012, a back named …