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Harvard Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the highest honor …
Issue: July-August 2021
Defying the Doldrums
Jon Schaefer grew up in Charlemont, a community of nearly 1,300 that lies between Williamstown and Interstate 91. His family owns the local Berkshire East Mountain Resort, where he and his siblings, and most everyone in the hill-towns region, learned to …
Issue: January-February 2021
Stephen Blyth Resigns from Harvard Management Company
The University announced that Stephen Blyth, president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) since the beginning of 2015, has resigned. He went on medical leave in late May , as reported. The personnel transition comes at a critical time: the …
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 …
Save the Date: President Gay Installation
P resident-elect Claudine Gay, who assumes office July 1 , will be formally installed on Friday, September 29, the Office of the University Marshal announced today . No further details are available yet, but in this digital age, the posting of the news …
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
This is the eighth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, famous and …
The Medical-Robotics Revolution
What if a cardiac surgeon could operate on a beating heart without opening the patient’s chest? Or a flexible robot could navigate the delicate branching of blood vessels, or bronchi in the lungs, and then stiffen to perform surgery at its tip? Or a …
Issue: May-June 2022
Debating Diversity
… share of underrepresented minority faculty to 18 percent by 2025. Recent history suggests that such changes won’t come …
Issue: March-April 2016
Former Overseer Diana Nelson ’84 Named to the Harvard Corporation
Diana L. Nelson ’84 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced on Monday. Her term of office begins officially on July 1. Nelson has previously co-chaired the College Fund, served on the Radcliffe Institute’s dean’s …
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 …
Addressing Big Questions
The ROTC Commissioning Ceremony , conducted Wednesday morning, focuses attention on a small number of graduating students (four members of the class of 2015) who have made an extraordinary commitment to service. This year, it was also an occasion for …
Issue: July-August 2015
Football: Harvard 45-Princeton 13
When Andy Aurich was introduced last winter as the new Thomas Stephenson family head coach for Harvard football, there was an undercurrent of grumbling, not only that he had never been a head coach before, but perhaps even more about his pedigree: Aurich …
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 …
In Search of the Social Microbiome
The microbial flora that inhabits the gut, skin, lung, and oral cavity of humans and other animals is thought to play a critical role in regulating metabolism and immunity. Any disruption or imbalance in that mix, a growing body of literature suggests, …
Issue: September-October 2024
History Minted
The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. "Made of silver and bronze as well as gold, some of them rank as miniature masterpieces of classical art," Professor David Gordon Mitten had said on the day of the robbery. On the …