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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Gore Vidal, Lost and Found
Like many stories, this one began at an improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see...
Better-than-Balanced Books
Faster revenue growth, plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal...
The Harvard Review
Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review (https://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview) is a biannual, 200-page literary journal that includes poetry...
Generous Givers
Donations to the University totaled $590 million in the fiscal year ended June 30 — the second highest sum in Harvard’s history...
Brevia
Finding a FellowThe search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation...
Premier Physicist
Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, has a new title: Nobel laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of...
Reality 101
I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t know what inspired me to choose the pointy black pair with elastic...
Yesterday's News
1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard...
A Humanist Who Knows Corn Flakes
Homi Bhabha tells a story about corn flakes to illustrate the relevance of the humanities to international commerce. “For many years in...
Provost Positions
The provost’s office (www.provost.harvard.edu) continues to add staff to cover more areas of University-wide planning and coordination...