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America’s Riven Politics
Evan Osnos ’98, who reported on a changing People’s Republic of China for The New Yorker , was struck by the changes in the United States when he returned home to begin reporting for the magazine from Washington, D.C. In 2021, he published Wildland: …
Christopher Walsh Wins Welch Award in Chemistry
Christopher T. Walsh , Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, has been named co-winner of the Welch Award , one of the most prestigious honors for research in chemistry. He and MIT's JoAnne Stubbe were …
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 …
Ending an Epidemic
An effective vaccine remains the best hope for ending the COVID-19 pandemic. As deaths and economic damage mounted worldwide this spring, every reasonable measure to seed and accelerate vaccine development was being considered. By late May, more than 170 …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships
Four seniors have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2022-23 academic year. Jack Swanson, of Currier House, a government concentrator, will be the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College. Sorcha …
Issue: July-August 2022
The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings: An Analysis
Editor’s note: Harvard Magazine asked contributing editor Lincoln Caplan, a leading legal-affairs journalist, to analyze the Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action in college admissions. For almost half a century , race-conscious admissions have …
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
As reported, the University’s major professional schools have begun outlining their immediate responses to the coronavirus-related challenges to their finances and operations. Now, Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has …
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 …
“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 …
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Economic Mobility I applaud members of the Workforce team (“ Making It in America ,” May-June, page 29) for the “research- and impact-based” nature of their project. Potentially, the project has greater impact than disclosed in the article, however. If …
Issue: July-August 2022
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 …
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 …
Putting the Tea Party in Perspective
The modern Tea Party , like other political movements before it, self-identifies with the spirit that moved eighteenth-century Bostonians to cast imported tea into Boston harbor. In a witty account of the uses and abuses of history—mostly for political …
Harvard Election Results
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association were announced this afternoon, as part of Commencement week. The news capped a competitive campaign season , in which two slates of candidates …
Engineering a School’s Future
One hundred days into his new position as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and after consultation with faculty members in the school and across the University, Francis “Frank” J. Doyle III shared …
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Issue: January-February 2016