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What They Earned
… As a nonprofit organization, Harvard is required to submit Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service each year. The fiscal year 2018 … were released publicly today, and include the earnings of the top-paid employees of both organizations. Former …
Final-Clubs Battle Rejoined
… Following a year of sharp debate within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) over the proposed sanctioning of …
Asian American Alumni to Gather
… Register now for the Harvard Asian American Alumni Summit 2010, which takes … place October 15-17 in Cambridge. Asian Americans form one of the fastest-growing segments of the University alumni body, and President Drew Faust will …
Issue: September-October 2010
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Harvard's first curator of numismatic collections, overseeing a trove of 22,000 coins in the Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art and Numismatics …
Issue: September-October 2003
Peter Gomes, Remembered
… The late Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial …
Honoris Causa
… Increase Mather was already presiding over Harvard College when he received one of its first honorary degrees. (More recent presidents have generally had to wait a year after leaving office before receiving the honor.) Image courtesy of the …
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events around the country. For information on upcoming programs, contact …
Issue: March-April 2010
Somethings Old, Somethings New
… Harvard knows how to stage awesome graduations—not just the spectacle of the Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre, but … life. Take advantage of these opportunities when they arise. Whatever you do with your Harvard education, please be …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
A Fictional Century
… In the opening pages of his new book, Stranger Than Fiction: … the magazine’s contributors. But the backbone of the enterprise is the “classics” series, a rigorously eclectic catalog … when he finally picked it up, he was enraptured and surprised. The resulting chapter in Stranger Than Fiction “was …
Issue: November-December 2024
Changing Times for Children
… medical school at Columbia University in 1943 and joining the Children’s Hospital Boston staff a few years later, … the war, the common wisdom was that an infant was “a bag of neurological reflexes,” says Joshua Sparrow, associate clinical professor of psychiatry and director of strategy, planning, …
Issue: January-February 2012
Football: Yale 23-Harvard 18
… As so often happens, The Game this year ended with the quarterback of the trailing team trying one desperation pass that, if …
Fostering Civil Discourse
… are students reluctant to express disagreement in and out of the classroom? In April, then-interim President Alan Garber … dialogue,” it reads, “are essential to the pursuit of academic excellence at Harvard and throughout higher …
Chao Center Dedicated at HBS
… including U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, and Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker ’79, gathered this morning for the official dedication of the new gateway to the …
Venkatesh Murthy
… in guiding human behavior—but for many animals, including the mice Venkatesh Murthy studies in his lab, the sense of smell often dominates. A dozen years ago, this prompted a question …
Issue: September-October 2020
E-mail Imbroglio
… classes met, this academic year began on a somber note. The College disclosed on August 30 that nearly half the … for impermissible collaboration or even outright copying of classmates’ answers on the take-home final exam the … Council member, spoke of the “unhelpful distance” that had arisen between faculty members and decision-making …
Issue: May-June 2013