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Leading with Care
In September 2016, a 4:30 A.M. phone call woke Michael Hill ’93, then general manager of baseball’s Miami Marlins, from a sound sleep. The team’s star pitcher, 24-year-old José Fernández, was dead. The young man was more than a player to Hill—the pair had …
Issue: March-April 2024
Yesterday's News
1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will receive $6,000 to $8,000 annually (an increase from the previous $4,000 to $5,500), and instructors will receive …
Issue: March-April 2000
Finding the Descendants of Enslavement
“This work is doable. The family structures of the Harvard-affiliated slaves may be currently unknown, but they are not unknowable.” That was the message this week from Richard Cellini, director of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, which in recent …
Publishing “The Harvard Advocate” Despite the Pandemic
The Harvard Advocate , a venerable publication now 154 years old, has published writers who have gone on to form much of the American literature we know in the twentieth century: poets John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, Adrienne Rich ’51, Litt.D. ’90, Frank …
“Service Starts with Summer”
During his inaugural address last October, President Lawrence S. Bacow advanced one specific, programmatic initiative. Invoking history, he said, “Since Harvard’s founding in 1636, the people educated here have responded patriotically to the call to …
Juneteenth Is Now a University Holiday
Harvard will be closed on Juneteenth—the holiday celebrated on June 19 marking the day in 1865 that enslaved African Americans in Texas were told that they were free—University president Lawrence Bacow announced in an email on Tuesday. “All faculty and …
The Green Star State
The cost of producing renewable energy from both wind and sun continues to fall, prompting a boom in sustainable electricity production. But this has also led to an auspicious problem: what to do with the excess energy produced from sustainable sources? …
Issue: March-April 2025
S. Allen Counter Has Died
S. Allen Counter has died after a brief illness. Counter was the inaugural and longtime director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations , and was a part-time professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. His speech at the Phi …
Quantum SCIENCE Quarters
Interior demolition work proceeded during the summer at 60 Oxford Street, formerly a Harvard computer facility, as it is completely renovated into the new home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program, approved in 2021 (see …
Issue: September-October 2022
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Friday evening , January 27, was quiet, with the College dispersed for intercession. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby was returning from fundraising meetings in New York. President Lawrence H. Summers was at the World Economic …
Issue: March-April 2006
Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?
At Harvard, there are research areas that can’t be investigated, subjects that can’t be broached in public, and ideas that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So say a group of Harvard professors, now more than 120 strong, who have formed a Council on …
Allston Agonistes
As Boston’s new mayor, Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, pursues her administration’s policies, Harvard and a recently formed Allston citizen’s group have each sent her letters, outlining competing visions for the development of the University’s 127 acres of …
Campus Survey: Sexual Assault, Harassment Remain Serious Problems
On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey intended to estimate the prevalence of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students. The survey, conducted during the spring of …
Off the Shelf
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy (W.W. Norton, $29.99). The author, Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history, writes often about Ukraine and about nuclear power and disasters. This journalistic account tells what …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Financial Fallout
In the fall of 2008, as banks and markets collapsed, Harvard discovered enormous problems in its own financial structure and operations. By year’s end, under duress, the University had to borrow $2.5 billion at high interest rates to maintain liquidity …