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Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen
The showdown between Harvard and the Trump administration escalated again this week, with another funding cut, a new lawsuit, and a rare courtroom concession from the federal government. As pressure from the administration mounts, Harvard is attempting to …
Honoris Causa
Six guests received honorary degrees on May 23. Interim provost John F. Manning introduced the honorands in the following order, and interim president Alan M. Garber read the citations. Learn more about each at harvardmag.com/honorands-24 . Gustavo …
Issue: July-August 2024
Behind the Scenes: Observing Subjects in Their Environments
one of the best parts about being a journalist is that you get to watch interesting people in their element. Whether it’s (literally) riding along with the Harvard polo team as they train for a match or watching a world-champion palindromist craft …
Richard P. Lifton Elected to Harvard Corporation
RICHARD P. Lifton , president of The Rockefeller University since 2016, will become a member of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1, succeeding Shirley Tilghman, president emerita of Princeton . The transition assures that the University’s senior …
Behind the Scenes: Keeping up with COVID-19
The challenge of writing about the continuing pandemic , as the virologist Dan Barouch succinctly observed in a recent conversation, is that any news more than two weeks old is old news (or worse, no longer true). So, when I began to write a feature …
Brevia
Associate Justice Jackson As this issue went to press, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, J.D. ’96, was awaiting the U.S. Senate vote on confirming her appointment to the Supreme Court, succeeding Stephen G. Breyer, LL. B. ’64 (profiled in “A Workable Democracy,” …
Issue: May-June 2022
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
Poet Carl Phillips ’81 won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 , a collection that the prize committee called a “masterful” chronicle of American culture “as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of …
News in Brief
… University conference center) are scheduled to open in late 2025 or early 2026. The photograph (taken from above …
Issue: September-October 2023
Behind the Scenes: Medical robotics changing lives
Imagine yourself a successful young lawyer working in a Washington, D.C.-area firm. You are 33, with the bulk of your working years ahead of you, until one day you unexpectedly suffer a debilitating series of strokes. Years of rehabilitation and speech …
Roche to Be Tenant in Allston
Roche, the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, announced this morning that it would create an innovation center at Harvard’s enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston. The firm, which employs 25,000 people in the United States and claims …
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 …
The Endowment and the Environment: Year Three
Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s endowment, released its third annual climate report February 9. This series of reports began in 2021, a year after Harvard announced a “net-zero” target for carbon emissions in endowment …
Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status Threatened
… a letter to the University demanding records “by April 30, 2025” of any “illegal and violent activities” by foreign …
Behind the Scenes: Scholars' Differing Perspectives
Often, the hardest part about writing an article is knowing where to start . That difficulty emerges a few times in the process. First, who are the best interview subjects? When it’s time to write, how do you begin? Sometimes those answers are simple. …
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
COMMENCEMENT WEEK includes addresses by President Lawrence S. Bacow and actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks. For details and updates on event speakers, visit harvardmagazine.com/commencement . * * * Monday, May 22 Affinity Celebration honoring First …
Issue: May-June 2023