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The 2021 Honorands
… speaker, Martin Baron) received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 27. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands as video highlights of their careers streamed, and President Lawrence S. Bacow … by Harvard Magazine Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and …
Issue: July-August 2021
Steven Maheshwary: “Confidence, in a Handful of Dust”
… width:402] In his Harvard Oration , one of four student speeches on Class Day, Steven Maheshwary ’12 stressed the importance of enthusiasm and urged his fellow classmates on Class Day …
Enjoying the Endowment
… Harvard benefactors can, for the first time, participate directly in the superior … assets. According to Anne D. McClintock, executive director of University Planned Giving, trust assets have previously … which are further diversified, reflecting the larger size of the asset pool (about $1 billion in all planned-giving …
Issue: March-April 2004
Behind the Scenes: When the pictures say it all
… Harvard Magazine is committed to TELLING the stories about the Harvard community that matter to you. … the case for the stark difference between the Commencements of 2020 and 2022—hence our cover choices for the subsequent … after students were sent home and the campus operations of this quintessentially residential institution were …
Where the Gentrified Antelope Play
… Three decades ago, Davis Square in Somerville was the pits. A Cambridge matron who lives nearby recalls … there for ice cream, but nothing else she wanted was on offer. The movie theater, which had once been an opera … and a glass or two of wine in a neighborhood bistro. Enterprise has provided just such a place amid former blight: …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Corporate Empires
… Once we were The Corporate Empires. Today, Bob does fiber-optics research in Arizona. Chester works at the U.S. Patent Office, refereeing intellectual-property fights over … ex-), children, and mortgages. Every summer, the remains of the Empires reassemble for an afternoon of ragged …
Issue: September-October 2005
The E-Mail Investigation
… Three searches of Harvard College resident deans’ e-mail accounts last September—prompted by unauthorized disclosure of Administrative Board communications during an … undertaken in good faith” by people who “believed that they were acting in compliance with applicable e-mail …
Issue: September-October 2013
Your Take: Executive Power and the Law
… its own laws? How should such occurrences be handled after the fact? In this issue's Forum, Charles Fried, Beneficial professor of law at Harvard, and his son Gregory Fried ’83, professor …
Issue: September-October 2010
Wild on the Strip
… To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and thrusts springs from a disciplined …
Issue: January-February 2006
Harvard by the Numbers
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) faces interesting … challenges in maintaining expertise in current fields of knowledge, bringing in professors to pursue new … As FAS dean Michael D. Smith illustrated with these figures, adapted from his annual report dated May …
Issue: September-October 2008
Crimson on the Hill
… Capitol Hill alumni (defined for this exercise as graduates of or matriculants in a degree program) will drop from 42 members in the 108th Congress to 41 members in the 109th, based on the … congressmen Douglas K. Bereuter, M.C.P. '66, M.P.A. '73, of Nebraska and Amory Houghton Jr. '50, M.B.A. '52, of New …
Issue: January-February 2005
Arts and Sciences’ Fisc
… Following publication of Harvard’s fiscal 2011 financial report (see “Deficit Days” ), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) released details of … aid. In fiscal 2012, however, the distribution has begun to rise modestly, and dean of administration and finance Leslie …
Issue: January-February 2012
“Nothing Has to Stay the Way It Is”
… Before she launched into the main part of her Commencement address—about the present, … to our planet’s natural resources; it and the resulting crises are caused by humans,” Merkel said. “I will therefore …
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On the Margins
… Five whitewater kayakers gather on the banks of Peru’s Paucartambo River to deliberate … whether to paddle through an especially perilous section of rapids or carry their boats around it. They’re halfway …
Issue: July-August 2025
A Tale of Two Universities
… times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of crisis their differences and vulnerabilities emerge. The eight Ivy … the conference center within the privately developed “enterprise research campus” near the Business School. But other, …
Issue: March-April 2021