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An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions
“I think we are facing an existential crisis as a University,” said Ali Asani during a panel discussion on religious pluralism last Friday afternoon at the Harvard Divinity School, during which the campus divides over Israel-Palestine were at times front …
Fiction in Counterpoint
In 2005, while waiting to pay in the Bob Slate stationery store in Harvard Square, Thomas P. Wolf ’05 spotted a Moleskine composer’s notebook with gray-lined staves on the pages. “It was something I wanted to mess around with,” he says. He bought it. …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Faculty’s New Faces
Harvard’s faculty ranks have, gradually, become increasingly diverse. The intersection of lifetime tenured appointments; no mandatory retirement age; a decade of very constrained growth; and the long time it takes students to progress from studying a …
Issue: May-June 2019
Learning Curve
When the Harvard football team kicked off its 150th season at the Stadium on September 21, there was an unfamiliar face on the sideline. For the first time in 30 years the Crimson had a new Stephenson Family head coach for Harvard football: Andrew Aurich …
Issue: November-December 2024
A Look in the Mirror
On December 12, the Harvard Corporation declared its unanimous support for President Claudine Gay. The statement came a week after Gay and other presidents were berated for their testimony during a charged congressional hearing on free speech and alleged …
Issue: March-April 2024
King, Kirschner Named University Professors
Quantitative social scientist Gary King and systems biologist Marc Kirschner have been named University Professors. King becomes the Weatherhead University Professor, succeeding the late Samuel P. Huntington. Kirschner becomes the Enders University …
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A Note on Standards As an essential service to readers, Harvard Magazine publishes letters to the editor on its contents and on Harvard matters, broadly defined. Beyond printing a representative sample of letters received in each bimonthly magazine, …
Issue: March-April 2024
Brevia
Cash Conservation Crimson Style The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative aims both to attract applicants and to enroll more students from modest economic circumstances. But what happens when they land in pricey Cambridge? This funky Shoestring Strategies for …
Issue: March-April 2006
Sleep Deprivation in America
Sleepless in America , a television program on the current epidemic of sleep deprivation, will air on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, November 30, at 8 p.m. EST. A wide range of illnesses and accidents—crashes involving drowsy drivers are an …
Thomas J. Hollister Appointed Harvard’s CFO
Thomas J. Hollister, a former banking executive, has been appointed chief financial officer and vice president for finance, as of the middle of May. He will fill an important vacancy in the University’s senior administrative ranks, created when Dan Shore, …
Education School Announces Interim Dean
Thursday morning , the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced that Larsen professor of education and human development Nonie Lesaux will serve as interim dean when Dean Bridget Long steps down at the end of the academic year . Lesaux, who …
“Insider Luck”
The compensation of top American corporate executives has soared during the past 15 years. Measured in 2005 dollars, the average annual compensation of the CEOs of the large companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 almost tripled from 1992 to 2005, growing …
Issue: March-April 2007
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Judge Posner I have to praise Lincoln Caplan’s article on Judge Richard Posner (“ Rhetoric and Law, ” January-February, page 49) for largely avoiding the gushing worshipfulness of the typical Harvard Magazine piece. But I still must demur on some points. …
Issue: March-April 2016
Could Regenerative Biology Work in Humans?
Chop a three-banded panther worm in half, and the head and tail will swirl around as if nothing had happened. Even more astonishing, a few days later, the halves will grow to become two complete and almost indistinguishable worms. Loeb associate professor …
Issue: July-August 2021
Harvard Forward Unveils Second Overseer Slate
No sooner has one hard-fought, protracted election campaign ended than a new one begins. No, not Trump vs. Biden. Rather, Harvard Forward has unveiled its second slate of candidates who will petition for nomination to be elected to Harvard’s Board of …