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Football: Harvard 35-Holy Cross 34
We elderly Harvard football fans would like to give our most heartfelt thanks to Dan Curran. We mean heartfelt literally. With his team having just scored a touchdown on the final play of regulation to pull within a point, the Crusaders’ head coach …
Cartography Animated
Mapmaking, especially before the Enlightenment, had as much to do with imagination as with scientific fact. Renaissance cartographers depicted strange, quasi-mythological creatures in the far reaches of the ocean. Imposing megafauna trod across early …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises
Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises Thursday, May 25, 2023 commencement.harvard.edu Since 1642, when just nine students graduated, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still …
Issue: March-April 2023
Harvard Appoints New Endowment President and CEO
A day after Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported endowment returns for the fiscal year ended last June 30, the appointment of its new president and CEO, Stephen Blyth, Ph.D. ’92, was announced. Blyth is managing director and head of public markets …
Christopher Walsh Wins Welch Award in Chemistry
Christopher T. Walsh , Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, has been named co-winner of the Welch Award , one of the most prestigious honors for research in chemistry. He and MIT's JoAnne Stubbe were …
Study Finds “Cultural Gap” between Harvard Athletics and Academics
A study of the Harvard Department of Athletics, released today, highlighted a “cultural and structural gap” between athletics and academics at Harvard. Commissioned in the fall of 2019 by Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the …
Creative Vulnerability and Childish Joy
Every Thursday evening of my first semester of medical school last fall, I commuted from Longwood to Cambridge for one of my favorite classes at Harvard. “ Skills for Singing ”—a non-credit, non-graded course for introductory singers—brings together …
Lessons Learned
What has the University discovered about itself from its exposure to the coronavirus? It may seem premature to speculate just a few months after the campus community largely dispersed. Yet there are apparent contradictions, important to sort out, between …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard Capital Campaign Nearing $6.5-Billion Goal
Although the University has not issued a year-end 2015 update, it appears that The Harvard Campaign has become the largest-grossing higher-education fundraising effort on record. Indeed, individual schools’ results (see “The Schools’ Status,” below) …
Tracy K. Smith ’94 Named U.S. Poet Laureate
TRACY K. SMITH ’94 has been named the new U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress, succeeding Juan Felipe Herrera. While the role doesn’t carry many specific official duties, it has traditionally involved raising awareness of, and increasing access …
Heresy
The fall’s fiscal news— weak investment performance and leadership changes at Harvard Management Company ; the cautions in the University’s annual report —prompts a look at a heretical thought about Harvard’s business model. For some years, the treasurer …
Issue: January-February 2017
News Briefs
Putting the A(RT) in Allston On February 25 , the University announced that the $12.5-million ArtLab, an interdisciplinary art-making and performance space, was preparing to open, and that curator and arts professional Bree Edwards, formerly director of …
Issue: May-June 2019
Fishing for Answers
Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school officials in Dover, Pennsylvania, were locked in a courtroom debate over a school-board mandate that intelligent design be presented as an alternative to evolution in …
Issue: May-June 2008
Divestment Slate Achieves Place on Overseer Ballot
The Harvard Forward (HF)-backed slate of petition candidates for Overseer has been certified for the ballot, following a tally by the Office of the Governing Boards (OGB). To qualify, the five petitioners each had to submit 2,936 valid nominating …
Brevia
Commencement Voices The Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on Commencement afternoon, June 9, will be actor John A. Lithgow ’67 ( Third Rock from the Sun on television, M. Butterfly on Broadway), a former member of the Board of Overseers, a campus …
Issue: May-June 2005