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Disinformation In my opinion, much of the messaging by Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and, yes, President Trump, regarding the 2020 election was both shameful and a good example for the case against misinformation and the role of the internet in its …
Issue: September-October 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 …
Lester Named New Yorker Managing Editor
Amelia Lester ’05 has been named managing editor of the New Yorker , the New York Observer reported yesterday. As a Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , Lester, a native of Sydney, Australia, wrote her first column for the …
Harvard Medical School Dean Flier to Step Down
Jeffrey S. Flier , dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 2007 , today announced that he would step down on July 31. Flier, an endocrinologist who specialized in the causes of obesity and diabetes, wrote a brief note to his colleagues conveying his …
The Context: Universities Pushed to Reckon with Slavery
This is the third post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. In the past few years , universities across the country …
Five Questions with Javier Ortega-Hernández
Javier Ortega-Hernández is an associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and serves as the curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is also an affiliate of the Department of Earth and …
Systems Biological and Quantitative
Gary King , Florence professor of government, and Marc W. Kirschner, Walter professor of systems biology, have been named University Professors, Harvard’s most distinguished faculty position. King, founder and director of the Institute for Quantitative …
Issue: September-October 2009
Off the Shelf
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India , by Sylvia Houghteling ’06 (Princeton, $65). To wide public knowledge of Mughal masterpieces in painting and architecture, Houghteling now adds comprehensive appreciation of the textiles created and traded at the height …
Issue: July-August 2022
Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has found among its holdings the remains of 15 people of African descent who were likely alive when slavery was legal in the United States, University president Lawrence S. Bacow announced in an email today. …
A Quartet of Crises
In retrospect, Harvard’s crisis during and after the Great Recession of 2008-2010 was a piece of cake. Yes, the University lost $11 billion to $14 billion in endowment and other assets, and had to incur costly debt, and devote more resources to financial …
Issue: November-December 2020
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 …
Debating Diversity
… share of underrepresented minority faculty to 18 percent by 2025. Recent history suggests that such changes won’t come …
Issue: March-April 2016
A Gate of Whimsy
By Harvard standards, the gate outside Lamont Library wasn’t really a gate. “It was just an extension of the fencing,” says Nazneen Cooper, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ assistant dean of campus design and planning. Unlike the Yard’s other notable …
Issue: March-April 2021
Nitin Nohria to Conclude Business School Deanship
Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) since 2010, announced yesterday that he will step down at the end of the academic year, concluding a decade of service. His announcement comes one week after the memorial service for John McArthur , …
Benjamin Porteous, Latin Salutatory
In Honorem Iohannis Martini Annenbergensis Praeses Bacow, Decani, Professores doctissimi, Hospites ter-honorati, Alumni Alumnaeque eminentissimae, pro nobis permulta passae familiae, et praecipue vosmet, condiscipuli carissimi, salvete! …