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The COVID-19 Commencement
The novel coronavirus had a powerful downsizing effect on Harvard’s gala week culminating in the formal Commencement rituals—the 369 th iteration of which will be rescheduled. There was no Baccalaureate. ROTC commissioning ceremonies were, for the nonce, …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Education, Reschooled
Next fall, as K-12 schoolchildren throughout the country resume full-time classes, however transformed by the coronavirus, some of their future teachers, principals, and superintendents will find their education transformed, too. In the 2021-2022 academic …
Issue: May-June 2021
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 …
Education School Announces Interim Dean
Thursday morning , the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced that Larsen professor of education and human development Nonie Lesaux will serve as interim dean when Dean Bridget Long steps down at the end of the academic year . Lesaux, who …
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
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
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 …
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 …
A “Romper Room” Diploma
Speaking at Memorial Church’s semester-opening Morning Prayers today for the first time as Harvard’s president , Claudine Gay continued to tell members of the University community about their new leader. In so doing, she added to the personal details in …
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
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
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 …
The Geeky Underground
Before he was the acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 , Ray Bradbury was just another teenage boy with a science-fiction zine. Pronounced “zeen,” these self-published, often-low-budget magazines are staples in subcultures and …
Issue: July-August 2022
Cambridge 02138
Harvard, Hamas, and Israel My reaction to President Gay’s video message to alumni, clarifying Harvard’s position on the terrorist attacks in Israel: Is it really so difficult to utter the words: “We support Israel in its attempt to defend itself from …
Issue: January-February 2024
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 …