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Harvard Endowment Rises to $37.6 Billion on 5.8 Percent Investment Return
HIGHLIGHTS: The endowment’s value stood at $37.6 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2015—finally exceeding the nominal peak value (not adjusted for inflation) of $36.9 billion realized in fiscal year 2008, just before the financial crisis and …
Meaningful Metrics
The U.S. Department of Education’s promised college-ratings system (aimed at helping families make informed decisions about access, affordability, and student outcomes) doesn’t have many friends on the nation’s elite, selective campuses. President Drew …
Issue: July-August 2015
Money Matters
The investment return on Harvard’s endowment assets during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, was 10.0 percent and the endowment’s value on that date reached $39.2 billion—up 5.7 percent ($2.1 billion) from $37.1 billion a year earlier. N.P. Narvekar, …
Issue: November-December 2018
Curator of American Culture
On the eve of Election Day last fall, Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones ’94 unveiled the magazine’s newest cover. A half-smiling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posed in a bright white suit against a wall of roses: a century-old symbol of socialism cast …
Issue: March-April 2021
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year Awards
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented their 2020 Woman and Man of the Year Awards to Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt: the former a three-time Emmy nominee, writer, director, and producer; the latter, the youngest recipient of the Man of the Year …
Pete Seeger ’40 Sings for Occupy Wall Street
Pete Seeger '40, who dropped out of Harvard in the late 1930s to pursue a lifelong career as a singer and political activist, gave a concert in Manhattan Friday evening at Symphony Space, at 95th and Broadway, along with Arlo Guthrie and others. Then, as …
When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy
REVISITING WILDFIRES AND PUBLIC HEALTH In light of recent events in Los Angeles, we are resharing this relevant article on wildfires and their effect on air quality. In the below Q&A from 2023, Joseph “Joe” Allen, an associate professor of exposure …
Tom Hanks: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
As prepared for delivery. Thank you. On behalf of all of us who have studied for two years at Chabot Community College in Hayward, California, two semesters of California State University, Sacramento, and forty-five years at the School of Hard Knocks, …
Bringing the Stars to Light
It is a Harvard story within a Harvard story: screenwriter Graham Sack ’03 and producer Jennifer 8. Lee ’99, two College-trained scientists-turned-filmmakers, have developed a television series about the Harvard Computers, a team of women who mapped the …
Brevia
Smith Center Services When it opens this fall, Smith Campus Center (née Holyoke Center) will provide both common spaces and calories. Food vendors on the first floor include Pavement Coffeehouse, Swissbäkers, Bon Me, Blackbird Doughnuts, Saloniki, Oggi …
Issue: May-June 2018
Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings
The Chinese American artist Shen Wei is perhaps best known as principal choreographer of the spectacular opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In Scroll Painting, his dancers performed across the stadium floor as a constantly changing, …
Issue: March-April 2021
Musical Activist
Mainstream pop culture churns out plenty of rockers and rappers, but Derrick N. Ashong ’97, G ’08, is plugged into a different station. Leader of the pan-African hip-hop band Soulfège and zealous activist for African issues, he brings “Afro-diasporic …
Issue: July-August 2006
Calhoun-Fall
Peter H. Wood ’64, Ph.D. ’72, an emeritus history professor at Duke University and former member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, submitted this essay reflecting on the recent removal of the massive John C. Calhoun statue in Charleston, South Carolina—a …
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
Known for bold, full-length paintings of urban black Americans, artist Barkley L. Hendricks was also a prolific street photographer. From his adolescent days in North Philadelphia through college and graduate school at Yale and a teaching career at …
Issue: May-June 2022
Climate Change Heats Up
The University will sponsor a panel discussion on climate change on April 13 , President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail to the community yesterday. Given the roster of participants, the event appears to have been assembled over a considerable period of …