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Has Harvard’s Endowment Stopped Growing?
… Trees don’t grow to the sky. Nor, apparently, do financial investments. After several years of relatively robust returns on endowment assets invested by … (HMC)— 15.4 percent in fiscal year 2014 (ended June 30 of that year); 11.3 percent in FY 2013 ; (0.05) percent in …
Harvard Women Take Rugby Title
… The Harvard varsity women’s rugby team opened their initial … with a 29-0 victory over Dartmouth in the final of the Ancient Eight tourney in Hanover, New Hampshire on … Harvard’s forty-second varsity sport. Under the leadership of coach Sue Parker, the ruggers compiled a 5-2 record, …
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
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
… In the late 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time … she was studying whether cooking changed the number of calories the gut can extract from food. When humans …
Issue: November-December 2023
Enduring Connections
… I made my first major international trip as president of Harvard, and it easily ranks among the most memorable experiences I have had abroad. Alumni and … partner institutions to discuss, among many other topics of mutual interest, the role that higher education can and …
Issue: May-June 2019
Thinking Conceptually
… no mind—even a young one—is a blank slate. Children under the age of five, for example, think that the wind and sun are alive, … disease on these same scientific concepts, the results surprised her. Many of her study subjects at Massachusetts …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment
… UPDATE: May 10, 12:15 P.M. This morning , Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) announced on Instagram that … has started sending out suspension notices” to students in the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard. Involuntary … with student protest liaisons. According to HOOP, Garber offered not to suspend students if they ended the …
What Harvard’s Senior Executives Earned Last Year
… The University today released its tax return for nonprofit … the compensation paid to the president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC, which is …
A Long Night's Journey in Palestine
… Ph.D. ’20, first came across Cry in a Long Night , the 1955 Arabic novel for which his English translation was … spent time in the Middle East, and he was struck by how often people there spoke about the end of the world. “It was ubiquitous,” he says. “You could ask …
Hoffa and Harvard Law
… Jack Goldsmith is Shattuck professor of law. As such, he is known for his work on the legal aspects of terrorism, national security, and other …
Issue: November-December 2019
Propelling Public Health
… The University was excited on the morning of September 8 … an HSPH alumnus and a leader of the family business enterprises, locally and in Hong Kong. “On behalf of my mother and …
Issue: November-December 2014
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
Harvard 30, Dartmouth 14
… The Crimson offense was hitting on all cylinders at … junior quarterback Collier Winters, Harvard scored on four of its five first-half possessions, held a 27-7 lead at … all-Ivy selection in 2009, was making his first start of the season. A hip injury sustained in the team’s first …
Harvard College Delays General-Education Curriculum
… Harvard undergraduates resuming classes for the new semester today may be surprised by the announcement, contained within College dean … Education curriculum, scheduled to begin in the fall of 2018, has been postponed a full academic year. He wrote: …
Nathan Marsh Pusey
… In his habits of character and his presidential style, Nathan Pusey '28, Ph.D '37, LL.D '72, was a figure of transition. The last of a breed in some respects, he did more than …
Issue: January-February 2002