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Infrared: A Renewable Energy Source?
Physicists at THE Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have conceived of a device that could produce energy from the infrared radiation naturally emitted from Earth into outer space. Wallace professor of applied physics Federico …
How the Endowment Distribution Is Set
The news that the value of the Harvard endowment declined by 5.1 percent in fiscal year 2016 , ended last June 30, refocused attention on how the Corporation determines what funds will be distributed to the University its schools. That determination is …
A New Portal for Allston
At the inauguration of the new building of the Harvard-Allston Education Portal this past Saturday, University president Drew Faust asked the audience, simply: “What is a Harvard?” The question’s unusual formulation came from a short story that a young …
Srikant M. Datar Appointed Harvard Business School Dean
SRIKANT M. DATAR, Dickinson professor of business administration and senior associate dean for University affairs at Harvard Business School (HBS), has been appointed dean, effective January 1, President Lawrence S. Bacow announced today. Datar succeeds …
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
Money-Manager Compensation
Compensation data for the most highly paid Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment personnel—subject to some sharp criticism in recent years—were released on the afternoon of December 21, as the campus emptied for the winter recess. Salary, …
Issue: March-April 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 …
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
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
Harvard Professors Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Thirteen Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) this week, including half a dozen whose work has been profiled in Harvard Magazine : Dan Barouch began developing a vaccine for SARS CoV-2 in January. The vaccine …
Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having just gone through a most difficult one,” punctuated by sharp conflicts over the views and leadership of President …
Issue: November-December 2005
Deval Patrick and Drew Faust Address Harvard Commencement
The Afternoon Exercises of Harvard Commencement (this 364th edition, and its predecessors) are officially the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The Business Meeting HAA’s president —this year, Cynthia A. Torres ’80, M.B.A. ’84 (the …
Ups and Downs
The shadows on the field at Harvard Stadium were lengthening, and so were Harvard’s chances of stealing the 138th playing of The Game from favored Yale, when Crimson quarterback Charlie Dean led his offense onto the field with 1:25 left in the third …
Issue: January-February 2023
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Neldal, and K. Barry Sharpless (who is a repeat winner; he also shared the 2001 chemistry prize ). The trio were honored “for the development …
“A Calling Above All Others”
Ruth Simmons today delivered the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 2023 Convocation speech, calling on the school’s 649 soon-to-be graduates to remain hopeful and persistent in the face of the “attack upon educators.” “By probing deeply into what is …