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Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
… deferred admission last fall join the full-sized class of 2025 enrolling on schedule . They will be joined by …
“We Salute You, and We Thank You”
Following Thursday’s in-person, new-look Commencement for the class of 2022 , the University this morning put on a unique, second “Commencement Celebration” for a huge crowd of 2020 and 2021 graduates (deprived of normal graduations during the COVID-19 …
John S. Rosenberg , Nancy Walecki , Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
Behind the Scenes: The art of the profile
We write a lot of profiles at Harvard Magazine . And with good reason, I think: so much of the story of a university like this one is expressed in the lives and work of its people—faculty, alumni, staff, and students who are scientists, scholars, …
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Issue: January-February 2025
Admissions Evolving
The College announced March 28 that 1,937 of 54,008 applicants (3.6 percent) were admitted to the class of 2028. The comparable figures a year earlier were 1,942 admission offers to 56,937 applicants (a 3.4 percent rate). The newest applicant cohort was …
Issue: May-June 2024
Crimson Construction
… will be fully restored to its old-home-made-new by the fall 2025 term. “No one comes to Harvard to live in a … and bathroom. The renovation is scheduled to conclude in 2025. If it’s successful, passersby and returning …
Issue: September-October 2024
News in Brief
Provost Manning On August 15, less than two weeks after the Corporation removed “interim” from his title, President Alan M. Garber made the logical move, announcing that former Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning, who became interim provost in March, …
Issue: November-December 2024
New Fellows
This fall the magazine welcomes seniors Che Applewhaite and Meena Venkataramanan to its editorial staff as the 2020-2021 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next …
Issue: September-October 2020
Civil Rights Attorney Sherrilyn Ifill to Receive 2022 Radcliffe Medal
Sherrilyn Ifill , president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 27, 2022, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced on Friday. The lawyer and scholar will join Madeleine …
Harvard Fencers at the 2024 Paris Olympics
To a young mind, lightsabers are mesmerizing. They buzz in the hands of Jedi masters, glowing in fluorescent colors. As a child, Mitchell Saron ’24 says he “was just obsessed with swords,” constantly begging his sister and parents to duel him with plastic …
Issue: July-August 2024
News in Brief
Commencement—and Other Headliners— Actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s Commencement exercises on the morning of May 25, succeeding a series of government and other leaders in recent years; for details see …
Issue: May-June 2023
Behind the Scenes: Writing About Walter Johnson and St. Louis
In August 2014, a few months after I graduated from Harvard College , I came home to St. Louis to reports of mass protests erupting in Ferguson, the suburb just north of the city that would soon become world-famous. African-American teenager Michael …
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the archive
When I started working on the September-October feature about Harvard Library’s Judaica Division—and the 86-year-old archivist who has led it for 60 years—I didn’t quite know what to expect. The University has such a vast and expanding universe of …
Football 2021: Harvard 23, Penn 7
In its final home game of 2021, the Harvard football team employed the formula that has served it well all season, riding a rock-ribbed rush defense, the rampaging running of back Aaron Shampklin, and the leg of placekicker Jonah Lipel to a workmanlike …
News in Brief
… points to work on facade restoration beginning in 2024 and 2025, respectively. Projects in the planning stage include …
Issue: March-April 2024