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Harvard’s Development Chief Departs
… for alumni affairs and development since 2018—in effect, the University’s chief fundraising officer—will retire at the end of 2024, the University announced today. He had previously …
New Rules for Campus Use
… Harvard administrators have continued to grapple with the past academic year’s campus chaos . On August 1, … vice president Meredith Weenick shared an updated slate of rules governing shared campus spaces. Prepared by the Harvard Office of the General Counsel and the Campus Space Working …
Never Alone
… Looking out at a crowd of 804 about-to-be Harvard Law School (HLS) graduates at class day May 22, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland spoke about work. After years of …
The GOP’s Return to Ideas?
… At the 2020 Republican National Convention, the GOP did not … Democratic policies. The Republican Party’s abandonment of ideas under Trump concerned Stephen Goldsmith, a former Republican mayor of Indianapolis. The Bok professor of the practice of urban …
News in Brief
… A Deluge of Deans Several significant leadership appointments were announced toward the end of the spring semester. Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. … investments in climate-transition technologies and enterprises now exceed 1 percent of endowment assets, and that …
Issue: July-August 2024
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
… amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year 2005, show that … particularly important in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Loans, the principal funding source in the professional schools, totaled $210 million. And employment, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Continuity and Change
… Lawrence S. Bacow , J.D.-M.P.P. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, will become the twenty-ninth president of Harvard on July 1. He was elected on Sunday, February 11, … And as intellecctual challenges and opportunities have arisen across departmental, disciplinary, and even school …
Issue: May-June 2018
Harvard@Home: Commencement and Cloning
… Harvard's 353rd Commencement in June—or if you were there and want to relive the experience—be sure to visit Harvard@Home. A new Harvard@Home program offers nearly two hours of Commencement coverage, including the keynote address by …
Issue: September-October 2004
Treasurer Transition
… The University announced on May 28 that Paul J. Finnegan … ’75, M.B.A. ’82 (above left), will succeed James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70 (above right), as treasurer on July 1. The treasurer has wide responsibilities for overseeing …
Issue: July-August 2014
Fall Sports
… Field Hockey The stickwomen (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) got off to a fast start, knocking off Penn, Brown, and Yale in their first three Ivy contests. …
Issue: November-December 2002
Civil Discourse and Institutional Neutrality Task Forces
… interim provost since March 14 , today announced a pair of University-wide working groups. The “Institutional Voice Working Group” will consider when … chaos, the University began to consider adopting a position of institutional neutrality ( first reported by the Harvard …
Wet and Wonderful
… Yes, the rains came, on and off, throughout the party. Numerous high-tech displays, like the rows of LEDs colorfully illuminating Widener Library's steps and …
Biddle: Everyday Family Life
… Geoffrey Biddle writes: These pictures were taken during my family’s everyday life in 2013—on the way to school; a visit to the doctor’s office; experiencing the subway in New York City (we live in …
Cambridge 02138
… Harvard Law I read with keen interest “ The Education of a Harvard Lawyer ” (January-February, page … crisis provides an opportunity to do this. Existential crises often force fundamental changes in history’s course. …
Issue: March-April 2021
Tiktaalik Resurfaces
… reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature ) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that is providing “striking evidence of the intermediate steps by which some marine vertebrates … walked on land.” Paleontologist Neil Shubin, Ph.D. ’87, of the University of Chicago, led the expedition that found …