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A Look in the Mirror
On December 12, the Harvard Corporation declared its unanimous support for President Claudine Gay. The statement came a week after Gay and other presidents were berated for their testimony during a charged congressional hearing on free speech and alleged …
Issue: March-April 2024
An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions
“I think we are facing an existential crisis as a University,” said Ali Asani during a panel discussion on religious pluralism last Friday afternoon at the Harvard Divinity School, during which the campus divides over Israel-Palestine were at times front …
What the Public—and Teachers—Think About School Choice
Annually since 2007, Education Next, a journal of opinion and research about education policy, has asked a representative sample of U.S. adults for their opinions on a range of education policies. The design provides for a sampling of teachers and African …
Issue: September-October 2016
Harvard Postpones Commencement
President Lawrence S. Bacow informed the community this afternoon of his decision to postpone the University’s Commencement, scheduled for May 28, in light of the coronavirus pandemic . Importantly: A virtual exercise will be conducted on that date, so …
Election Slates and Divestment Developments
The Harvard Alumni Association-nominated 2020 slate of candidates for the Board of Overseers and HAA’s own elected directors was announced today. The separate effort to nominate a slate of candidates by petition to the Office of the Governing Boards—in …
Heresy
The fall’s fiscal news— weak investment performance and leadership changes at Harvard Management Company ; the cautions in the University’s annual report —prompts a look at a heretical thought about Harvard’s business model. For some years, the treasurer …
Issue: January-February 2017
Creative Vulnerability and Childish Joy
Every Thursday evening of my first semester of medical school last fall, I commuted from Longwood to Cambridge for one of my favorite classes at Harvard. “ Skills for Singing ”—a non-credit, non-graded course for introductory singers—brings together …
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A Note on Standards As an essential service to readers, Harvard Magazine publishes letters to the editor on its contents and on Harvard matters, broadly defined. Beyond printing a representative sample of letters received in each bimonthly magazine, …
Issue: March-April 2024
“Today You Join Something That Is Larger than Yourself”
Lieutenant General Maria B. Barrett, commanding general of the U.S. Army Cyber Command and among the highest-ranking women in the U.S. Army, today delivered the oath of office to 16 ROTC graduates commissioned into the United States armed forces—by far …
Developing the Brain-Computer Interface
Growing up in New York City, Benjamin Rapoport, A.B.-A.M. ’03, M.D. ’08 (’13), often tagged along on weekend hospital rounds with his neurologist father. Samuel Rapoport was also an electrical engineer and a pioneering electrophysiology specialist who …
Issue: January-February 2025
Health Benefits.2016
Last fall , when the University announced the introduction of long-rumored annual deductibles and coinsurance for certain health-insurance costs effective in 2015 , some of the affected employees (faculty and nonunionized staff members, plus postdoctoral …
Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20
The maturity of Jaden Craig took a giant step on Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. There, Harvard’s junior quarterback, spreading the ball to eight receivers, picked apart Cornell and led the Crimson to a 38-20 win over the Big Red. …
The Campus, Quieted
If “coronavirus” or “social distancing” becomes the word of the year, Harvard will have had a leg up on the lexicographers. On February 24, the University announced a $115-million biomedical research partnership with scientists in China to investigate the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Quincy Jones and Harvard
LARGELY MISSED in the rush of encomia to beloved musician Quincy Jones, who recently died at the age of 91, were his multiple Harvard connections. He received an honorary doctorate in music in 1997 (“Musician, humanitarian, orchestrator extraordinaire, he …
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 …