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Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research
On Wednesday , Harvard President Alan M. Garber and Provost John Manning announced that the University will allocate an additional $250 million to support campus research. These funds are coming from Harvard’s pool of central funds rather than its …
Trump Announces Travel Ban for Harvard International Students
President Donald Trump declared late Wednesday evening that he would stop Harvard’s international students from entering the country. The proclamation comes less than a week after U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs blocked the Trump administration’s …
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Phi Beta Kappa Speakers Don’t Shrink from the News
Donald Trump’s name was never spoken during Tuesday morning’s Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, but you could still hear it loud and clear. It was perhaps loudest during a standing ovation for President Alan M. Garber. At the top of his oration, Rakesh …
Harvard Discloses Top Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation
… that he will take a pay cut of 25 percent starting July 1, 2025 in light of the loss of federal funding. That drop in …
Convocation 2023: The New Crew
This year’s Convocation, conducted on Monday, a summery, humid Labor Day afternoon, of course welcomed new students: the 1,650 or so members of the College class of 2027 (a return to a normal, pre-pandemic-sized first-year Crimson cohort). But they were …
Katori Hall Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Playwright Katori Hall , ART ’05, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama on Friday for The Hot Wing King , set in her hometown of Memphis. It follows a black gay couple and their extended family as they prepare recipes for competition in the city’s …
Harvard Medalists
… Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2025
Harvard Goes Dancing
… a short span of space,” the coach explained. Turner, the 2025 Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a program-record …
Playing Offense
… to only the most prominent priorities. Updated April 14,2025, 8:30 p.m. : Read about the federal government’s March … At best, conditions have deteriorated alarmingly since 2025 began; at worst, the assumptions that have underlain …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard Files for Permanent Relief from Trump Administration’s Funding Cuts
Harvard has asked a federal judge to rule in its favor in its lawsuit seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s freeze and termination of billions of dollars in federal research funding. In a 62-page court filing submitted Monday to the U.S. District …
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
Ken Griffin’s Naming Gift for the Graduate School
Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel LLC, the multibillion-dollar hedge-fund and financial-services company, has donated $300 million to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In an April 11 letter emailed to the …
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, …
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… Alley was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2025 by President Joseph Biden, in part for work to … a better individual to inspire the members of our class of 2025 as they contemplate their futures.” Read a detailed …
Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding
… to legal action on the University’s part. Updated April 1, 2025, 9:00 a.m. : It is important to note that the … justify what is being threatened.” Updated April 1, 2025, 2:20 p.m. : Although Princeton was not among the 10 … due process rights of this university.” Updated April 4, 2025, 8:20 a.m. : The New York Times reports that Brown …