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Slow and Steady
Scott Kline , J.D. ’88, thought he might run fast in the Hartford Marathon. Not fast fast, but fast for a 60-year-old retired lawyer. The early November weather in Connecticut was supposed to be mild, and he was feeling well-rested despite having run two …
New Rules for Campus Use
Though students are on summer recess, Harvard administrators have continued to grapple with the past academic year’s campus chaos . On August 1, executive vice president Meredith Weenick shared an updated slate of rules governing shared campus spaces. …
Michael Mina: Why do we still need rapid tests?
Why do we still need rapid tests? Epidemiologist and immunologist Michael Mina discusses the use of rapid tests as public health tools. Topics include using rapid tests to protect gatherings of friends and family; the differences between rapid tests …
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 , …
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 …
Championship Complications
On a Sunday morning in late January 2009, the Harvard men’s basketball team gathered at Lavietes Pavilion, anxious about what awaited them. After toppling Boston College earlier that month—the program’s first victory over a ranked opponent—the Crimson had …
Issue: March-April 2015
Harvard Responds to Violence in Israel
Saturday morning , militants from the terrorist group Hamas stormed into Israel by foot, air, and sea. During the surprise attack launched from Gaza, Hamas killed more than 900 Israeli citizens, wounded 2,600, and captured more than 100, according to …
Coronavirus Closes Classes
The third shoe has dropped, as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread. The University’s site for information on countermeasures is updated continuously. Highlights appear here. Updated March 12, 2020, 2:45 p.m.: Ivy League athletic practices and …
A Victory—and a Campaign
Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days later—declares victory and outlines a future campaign. The retrospective victory …
Issue: November-December 2012
Changemaker in Admissions
The fourth of seven children, David L. Evans grew up in Arkansas in one of the nation’s poorest counties. His grandmother was born into slavery, and his parents, who died before Evans graduated from high school, were sharecroppers with little formal …
Issue: September-October 2020
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
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 Gift of Munch Artworks
A bequest from Philip A. Straus ’37 and his wife Lynn G. Straus of 62 prints and two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has made the Harvard Art Museums’ collection of that artist’s work “one of the largest and most significant” in the …
Exceeding Expectations
This year marks the 150th anniversary of football at Harvard. (Because the 2020 Ivy League campaign was canceled due to COVID, this is the 149th season of play.) But entering the 2023 season, the outlook for the Crimson was murky. In the century and a …
Issue: November-December 2023
Harvard Health Benefits: The Administration Responds
In light of strong Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) opposition to the changes in Harvard health benefits for nonunion employees unveiled September 3 , President Drew Faust sent a long message to faculty members on the evening of November 13 (see text …