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The Future of the HAA
… enthusiasm for Harvard's bicentennial anniversary in 1836, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) was originally a small group of men led by former U.S. president John Quincy Adams, A.B. … The alumni population is now nearly 300,000, reflecting a rise in professional-school enrollments during the last 50 …
Harvard’s Standoff: The Research At Risk
… in federal research funding in fiscal year 2024—11 percent of its overall annual operating budget. Most came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which houses … biology Sharad Ramanathan, who studies how stem cells give rise to complex tissues in the human embryo. Ramanathan, who …
Issue: July-August 2025
The High-rise Ecotopia
… first home, in Manhattan, it’s an ecological catastrophe of energy consumption. Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability … damage that humans have done to the environment has arisen from the burning of fossil fuels, a category in which …
Issue: November-December 2009
AI: The Course
… With the launch of its first overview course on artificial … produced by humans. From the first meeting of Gen Ed 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI,” students …
Issue: May-June 2024
The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
… At a time when less than 50 percent of Americans grow up to earn more than their parents, how can higher education help move the … skill set, your job is less likely to be replaced by machines and will be a path to better mobility.” The …
The “Ring of Truth”
… If the audience decides to clap, R.J. Tarrant was telling one of the student Commencement speakers last week, during their … became untenable as the number of applications continued to rise. This year, the committee received submissions from 130 …
The "King of Palindromes"
… word—one that would convey Kay’s questionable character and the conditions under which a yak would engage in adult … Saltveit flipped through the handmade, 200-page dictionary of 29,000 palindromic fragments he’d constructed over the … if yak lived.” With this single sentence, in the ballroom of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Mark …
Issue: September-October 2021
Yesterday's News
… 1921 As of January 1, Harvard Yard is closed to automobiles, on the grounds that traffic is dangerous on such narrow roads … students about factual issues. Undergraduate tuition will rise from $2,600 to $2,800 per year in 1971-72--the third …
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
… Scientists who study the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets have for the … data can be used to improve predictions of global sea-level rise, and help identify (or at least constrain) regional …
The End of Spontaneity
… Despite its well-constructed façade of serenity—the muted light streaming through yellow curtains, the … up and spin me around so that we’re both laughing with surprise and childish glee. And so Houseparty has been …
“Chorus of Soloists”
… months have brought so many reasons to worry about China’s rise: rapidly expanding military capabilities, an … with regional neighbors, and a new leadership that as one of its first acts pledged to fight the “perils” of constitutionalism, civil society, and …
Issue: July-August 2014
Sciences Still Young
… for economics, sociology, and political science in the work of Plato and Aristotle, but truthfully, the social … for State and Local Government. … Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in …
Issue: September-October 2011
An Engine of Ingenuity
… I became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, I am struck by the remarkable role that engineering and technology have … unveiled its newest gadget—the iPhone—and ushered in an age of extraordinary communication and unprecedented … the pace of change on a global scale. Nowhere is the rise of engineering and the applied sciences more evident to …
Issue: September-October 2017
Small Talk, From Afar
… three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood … is trying to revive the Harvard Wireless Club, a group of amateur (“ham”) radio enthusiasts. Unlike the student DJs … students of yore—plopped down before an array of antiquated machines, bathed in the subtle aroma of cigarettes smoked …
Issue: May-June 2025
Early Admissions Rise
… The College announced today that 992 applicants from a pool … 4,692 had been granted early-action admission to the class of 2018, entering next autumn. In 2012, early-action … early admissions increase … 1508 … 1510 … Early Admissions Rise … article …