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House Renewal Update
… Additional information has become available since the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) “Strategic Assessment Report” on … Harvard Magazine ) . As reported, FAS disclosed that as of March 31, it had secured gifts and pledges of $230 …
Issue: September-October 2016
Harvard Files Brief in Affirmative Action Appeal
… Harvard today filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case, Students for Fair Admisssions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The case centers on whether consideration of race and ethnicity should be allowed when admissions …
Football: Harvard 14, Penn 27
… For the previous three weeks the Harvard football team had (pick … three-way tie for first place going into the final weekend of the season, during which Harvard will host Yale, Penn … Joe Viviano ’17, who grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Berwyn. Harried all night and sacked six times by a …
Harvard Art Museums Will Reopen This Fall
… The Harvard Art Museums have announced plans to reopen to … September 4 (the intervening days, September 2-3, will offer previews to museum members and supporters). The museum … reopening to all visitors, after the extraordinary events of the last year and a half,” said Cabot director Martha …
Harvard Politics
… A feisty letter written in 1819 in the distinctive hand of John Quincy Adams, A.B. 1787, A.M. … he ultimately became a widely celebrated éminence grise who won every major award his field could offer, he …
Issue: March-April 2016
Insurgent Election
… The most serene of American elections— the University’s annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association …
Namwali Serpell’s Novel-In-Progress
… reading on Wednesday afternoon, author Namwali Serpell offered listeners a taste of her newest novel-in-progress. A fiction writer, essayist, … sort of homecoming, after receiving her Ph.D. from the University in 2008. Born in Zambia and raised mostly in …
Tools for Change
… Megan white Mukuria ’99 is on a mission. The founder of the nonprofit ZanaAfrica Foundation works to promote awareness of an …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Presidential Search Begins
… Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation since July 1 , today advised the … is formally under way. In an email message issued on behalf of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, Pritzker …
Elbow Room
… colleagues, issued in January, with a literary hat trick. The first two pages quote John Adams, A.B. 1755, LL.D. 1781 … the Commonwealth’s legislature “to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them: especially the university at Cambridge”); the …
Highlighting Indigenous People’s “Connection to a Place”
… In late May , the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Executive Committee … and annual meetings will open with a formal acknowledgment of the alumni community’s debts to and connections with … the Harvard Charter of 1650. “You would be really surprised to know how many students, faculty, staff, are just …
Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program
… a Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering, one of the first in the world, the University announced today. The program has been designed to train the next generation of leaders and innovators in a domain of physics already …
Past’s Presence
… The Radcliffe Institute’s annual barbecue felt a bit like a cafeteria on the first day of high school. Heavy rains the previous night forced the … place to sit. In the line for the buffet, a woman in front of me politely asked what I was studying. I told her, …
Passive Corporate Governance
… Index funds —the low-cost mainstay of retirement accounts and college … so popular that they now hold a surprisingly large share of U.S. corporations. These passive investment vehicles …
Issue: March-April 2020
Sean Kelly Named Dean of Arts and Humanities
… Sean Kelly, Martignetti professor of philosophy, has been appointed dean of the division of arts and humanities within Harvard’s Faculty …