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Harvard Invests in MIT’s The Engine
MIT-created venture firm The Engine, which aims to provide capital required to tackle difficult technological problems, has completed a $230-million funding round, including Harvard as an important new partner in the venture, and bringing its total …
A Culinary Journey
Cooking practices “can open a window into the lives of enslaved people and help us understand slavery and its legacies,” said Radcliffe Institute dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin on Thursday, introducing a talk by chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty on the …
$6 Billion-Plus
Update, October 21, 2015, 12:30 p.m. After this article was reported, two more schools provided data on the status of their campaign fundraising. The Harvard Kennedy School reported securing gifts totaling $432 million (toward a $500-million goal) as of …
Issue: November-December 2015
COOP Conversion
Taking advantage of pandemic-reduced customer traffic, the Harvard COOP has accelerated a renovation. It is consolidating books and merchandise (formerly in the Palmer Street annex) in its main store space, and eliminating its café; original architectural …
Issue: May-June 2021
Moveable Feast
As noted elsewhere in this issue , 2022 will go down in Harvard annals as the year the institution broke a long tradition and altered the format of Commencement Day. Graduation exercises will continue to take place on a Thursday in late May, but the …
Issue: July-August 2022
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 University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises
Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises Thursday, May 25, 2023 commencement.harvard.edu Since 1642, when just nine students graduated, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still …
Issue: March-April 2023
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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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
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 …