COVID-19: An Emergency, and a Long-Term Challenge
An Epidemiologist’s Call to ActionJonathan Shaw Lipsitch call to actionIn a mid-day conference call on Friday, March 20, epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of...
View ArticleSecond Chances in CS50
Teaching Academic Honesty in CS50Jonathan Shaw CS50 regret clauseDavid Malan ’99 teaches CS50, perennially one of the most popular undergraduate courses at Harvard: Introduction to Computer Science...
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“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
Harvard College class remote learningJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard College class remote learningOn Monday morning, March 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as...
View ArticlePresident Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow Test Positive for Coronavirus
Harvard President Bacow Coronavirus PositiveJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard President Bacow Has CoronavirusPresident Lawrence S. Bacow advised the community this afternoon that he and his wife, Adele Fleet...
View ArticleThe Financial Fallout
Harvard Financial Pressures Coronavirus CrisisJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Financial Pressures Coronavirus CrisisIn the fall of 2008, as banks and markets collapsed, Harvard discovered enormous problems...
View ArticleWhat Happens to Harvard’s Workers?
What Happens to Harvard’s Workers?Marina N. Bolotnikova What Happens to Harvard’s Workers?Last week, as the nation shut down due to the rapidly escalating COVID-19 pandemic and Harvard undergraduates...
View ArticleCollege Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024
College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024 College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024The College has admitted 1,980 of 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024 (895 of whom...
View ArticleAll College Spring-Semester Grades Will Be Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory
All College Spring Semester Grades Will Be Satisfactory-UnsatisfactoryMarina N. Bolotnikova All College Spring Semester Grades Will Be Satisfactory-UnsatisfactoryAll Harvard College courses this...
View ArticleOverseer and Director Election Endorsements
Harvard Overseer Elected Director UpdateJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Overseer Elected Director EndorsementsWith world attention understandably focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, and U.S. political...
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How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive ItMarina N. Bolotnikova Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive ItLast summer—seemingly a lifetime ago—the news was dominated by...
View ArticleDesign Dean Sarah Whiting to “Step Back” for Cancer Treatment
Harvard Design Dean Whiting Cancer TreatmentJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Design Dean Whiting Cancer LeaveThe Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) new dean, Sarah Whiting, who was named to the post just a...
View ArticleA President Mended, A University Challenged
President Bacow on Harvard in pandemicJohn S. Rosenberg President Bacow Harvard challenges pandemicPresident Lawrence S. Bacow, recovered from COVID-19, spoke about his condition, and Harvard’s, during...
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Resolving Inflammation
Toward a Pharmacology of ResolutionJonathan Shaw resolution of inflammationOf all the human immune system’s extraordinary capabilities, its capacity to regenerate and restore normal physiological...
View ArticleHarvard Engineering School’s Move to Allston Deferred
Harvard Engineering Allston Move DeferredJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Engineering Allston Move DeferredFrancis J. Doyle III, dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
View ArticleHarvard Announces Salary, Hiring Freezes and Other Spending Cuts
Harvard Spending Cuts: A Pandemic UpdateJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Spending Cuts Pandemic UpdateBreaking News: In a message headlined “Economic Impact of COVID-19,” President Lawrence S. Bacow—joined by...
View ArticleHow Harvard’s Professional Schools Will Cope with the Economic Crisis
Harvard Schools Pandemic PressuresJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Schools Pandemic ResponsesIn the wake of initial financial guidance and principles for drafting new budgets disseminated by President...
View ArticleThe Faculty of Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
Harvard Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty HiringJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Arts and Sciences freezes faculty hiringAs reported, the University’s major professional schools have begun outlining their...
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The Campus, Quieted
Harvard faces coronavirus impactJohn S. RosenbergMay-June 2020 jhj-campus-quietedIf“coronavirus” or “social distancing” becomes the word of the year, Harvard will have had a leg up on the...
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Brevia
Baron and Gates at Commencement, a lawsuit renewed, May-June 2020 jhj-breviaWould-Be HonorandsBefore COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that its guest speaker,...
View ArticleOverseer and HAA Director Elections
Harvard Overseer and HAA director electionsMay-June 2020 alumni-overseer-haa-director-electionsOn March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced that the annual voting for new...
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