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Where the Grass Is Greener
Not infrequently, companies lure professors to highly paid positions directing scientific research in pharmaceuticals, technology, and related fields. But the recent departures of some leading Harvard scientists deeply committed to improving human health …
Issue: January-February 2025
“Risk Forgiveness”
President Drew Faust, who spoke at Morning Prayers last academic year about the 1965 voting-rights march in Selma and about the diversity of the Harvard community , opened the 2015 fall term by visiting Appleton Chapel on September 2 to talk about …
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
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
David Miliband to Address Kennedy School Commencement
David Miliband , former U.K. foreign secretary and now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)—an organization that provides aid to victims of conflict and disaster—will deliver the Graduation Address to the Harvard Kennedy School …
University News Briefs
Tough Grading for Gen Ed The College’s flagship general-education curriculum came under sharp criticism when a faculty review committee released its report for discussion at the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting. The requirement that …
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 …
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 …
Yo-Yo Ma Is Kennedy Center Honorand
Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, the internationally acclaimed cellist, will receive a 2011 Kennedy Center Honor on December 4, along with singer Barbara Cook, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep , Ar.D. ’10. Ma, …
Dialogue, not Debate
Following last semester’s convulsive Israel-Palestine protests, Harvard has intensified its interest in fostering open, respectful dialogue on campus. In the past few months, the Kennedy School published a report on constructive conversations , Harvard …
After Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court, in a decision announced June 29, banned race-conscious admissions at both public and private institutions of higher education, ruling the practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) unconstitutional and overturning …
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Issue: September-October 2023
A New Challenge for Antitrust
In the last few years, a new type of financial consolidation has caught the attention of antitrust regulators. Institutional investors—big companies like Fidelity and BlackRock—today own 70 percent of publicly traded stocks, according to some estimates, …
Issue: January-February 2018
Who Teaches?
Tucked within the November Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) faculty trends report was a short section on professors of the practice, lecturers, and preceptors: teachers who are not among the “ladder” ranks of professors and tenure-track assistant and …
Issue: March-April 2023
The Fiscal Crunch
With no relief since the University’s early-December announcement that the endowment’s value had declined sharply (see “ Harder Times ,” January-February, page 47), Harvard faces significant spending reductions—likely to affect both employees and perhaps …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard Management Company Leader Takes Medical Leave
The University announced this morning that Stephen Blyth, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company—which invests the endowment assets—is taking a temporary medical leave of absence, effective immediately. Blyth assumed his …