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“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 …
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“One of my small, goofy, weird joys is to get a very, very local newspaper from a small town, like my hometown, and read the police blotter,” says best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You , Celeste Ng ’02. “ Mr. …
Issue: November-December 2022
Infrared: A Renewable Energy Source?
Physicists at THE Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have conceived of a device that could produce energy from the infrared radiation naturally emitted from Earth into outer space. Wallace professor of applied physics Federico …
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
Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having just gone through a most difficult one,” punctuated by sharp conflicts over the views and leadership of President …
Issue: November-December 2005
Fred Ho ’79 to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Chinese-American jazz saxophonist, composer, writer, and self-described “radical, revolutionary artist” Fred Ho '79 will receive a Harvard Arts Medal on November 13, an unusual conferral of such an honor, which is typically made in the spring at Arts …
Money-Manager Compensation
Compensation data for the most highly paid Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment personnel—subject to some sharp criticism in recent years—were released on the afternoon of December 21, as the campus emptied for the winter recess. Salary, …
Issue: March-April 2006
The State of Black America
During a searching discussion Thursday evening at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the “State of Black America,” historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad opened with a trenchant warning: “We are facing uncharted waters.” Surveying the rise of Trumpism and the …
The Return of History
On the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, historian Serhii Plokhy was on sabbatical in Vienna, researching a new book about Chernobyl. He’d spent weeks sifting through documents in the archives of the International Atomic Energy …
Issue: September-October 2023
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Neldal, and K. Barry Sharpless (who is a repeat winner; he also shared the 2001 chemistry prize ). The trio were honored “for the development …
The Climate Connection between Campus and Home
Often, when we think about the reach of the climate crisis on campus, we think about protests, discussions, and groups like Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, where I’m an organizer. But for a lot of us in the Harvard community, the climate crisis isn’t confined …
Issue: May-June 2023
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 …
Thinking Archaically
Romolo Del Deo ’82 knew his sculpting career was going well. In his opinion, perhaps too well—unsustainably well. He was teaching at Harvard shortly after graduating himself, receiving grants, winning awards. The whole “system” of academic art seemed to …
Issue: January-February 2024
“The Promise of This New Presidency”
Claudine Gay spent part of the last day of summer and the first day of the fall semester introducing herself to the community she has led since July 1—and in doing so, building a bridge to the aspirations she holds for the University during her …
A Presidency’s End
Claudine Gay’s truncated 185-day term as Harvard’s thirtieth president came undone with astonishing speed from October 7—when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, setting this and other campuses aboil—through her resignation on January 2 (see …
Issue: March-April 2024