A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
A New Chapter for Harvard Artslydia_gibson@h…Thu, 04/25/2024 - 20:46On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President Alan M. Garber paused the proceedings briefly...
View ArticleNew Kennedy School Dean Announced
New Kennedy School Dean Announced max_krupnick@h…Mon, 04/29/2024 - 10:32The University announced today that Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced that Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. ’03, a professor of...
View ArticleJeff Lichtman Appointed Dean of Science
Jeff Lichtman Appointed Dean of Scienceniko_yaitanes@…Tue, 04/30/2024 - 11:08Jeff Lichtman, a neuroscientist who is Knowles professor of molecular and cellular biology and Cajal professor of arts and...
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Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future
Sam Altman’s Vision for the Futurenina_pasquini@…Thu, 05/02/2024 - 14:51“I really like things that, if they work, really matter—even if they don’t have a super high chance of working,” Sam Altman,...
View ArticleHow Does Hate Spread?
How Does Hate Spread?max_krupnick@h…Fri, 05/03/2024 - 09:13In the months following Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s military response in Gaza, American Jews and Muslims have endured a...
View ArticleHarvard Coop’s Changing of the Guard
Harvard Coop’s Changing of the Guardniko_yaitanes@…Mon, 05/06/2024 - 07:00The Harvard Coop announced today that CEO Jerry Murphy ’73, M.B.A. ’77, will retire on September 1, concluding a Harvard Square...
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Finding Harvard’s Voice
Finding Harvard’s Voicemax_krupnick@h…Wed, 05/08/2024 - 06:07In late March, Danielle Allen, Harvard’s Conant University Professor, spoke at Brigham Young University (BYU) on how to be a “confident...
View ArticleGovernance Reform from Below?
Governance Reform from Below?niko_yaitanes@…Wed, 05/08/2024 - 10:01The last item discussed at the May 7 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting may, in time, rank first in importance: a motion,...
View ArticleHarvard’s Year That Was
Harvard’s Year That Wasniko_yaitanes@…Wed, 05/08/2024 - 13:07On May 7, at the last regularly scheduled Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting but one, Dean Hopi Hoekstra was able to celebrate the...
View ArticleProactive AI Policy
Proactive AI Policynina_pasquini@…Thu, 05/09/2024 - 16:05Artificial intelligence is developing faster than policymakers can keep up, and the gap in understanding between government and industry could...
View ArticleRadcliffe Institute Announces 2024-2025 Fellows
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2024-2025 Fellowsnina_pasquini@…Fri, 05/10/2024 - 05:19The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will welcome 52 fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year as part of its...
View ArticleHarvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensationniko_yaitanes@…Fri, 05/10/2024 - 09:44Harvard today released its 2022 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022, through...
View ArticleUpdate: Harvard Encampment Ends
Update: Harvard Encampment Endsmax_krupnick@h…Tue, 05/14/2024 - 10:10UPDATE: May 14, 3:45 P.M.Early Tuesday morning, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) ended its encampment in Harvard Yard....
View ArticleAn Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions
An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensionsjennifer_carli…Tue, 05/14/2024 - 11:30“I think we are facing an existential crisis as a University,” said Ali Asani during a panel discussion on religious...
View ArticleFaculty Senate Debate Continued
Faculty Senate Debate Continuedniko_yaitanes@…Thu, 05/16/2024 - 08:53During an unusual special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on May 14, members continued the prior week’s lively,...
View ArticleSaluting the 2024 Centennial Medalists
Saluting the 2024 Centennial Medalistsjennifer_carli…Wed, 05/22/2024 - 08:00The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s...
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Carrying a “Heavy Pack”
Carrying a “Heavy Pack”jennifer_carli…Wed, 05/22/2024 - 15:53“As you know, when you leave Cambridge on Thursday, the pack doesn’t get any lighter,” retired Navy Vice Admiral Philip Cullom, M.B.A. ’88,...
View Article“Our Planet in Microcosm”
“Our Planet in Microcosm”jennifer_carli…Wed, 05/22/2024 - 16:00US. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Nicholas Burns addressed the 659 members of the Harvard Kennedy School’s class of 2024 at...
View ArticleHarvard Corporation Rules Thirteen Students Cannot Graduate
Harvard Corporation Rules Thirteen Students Cannot Graduatejennifer_carli…Wed, 05/22/2024 - 16:35On Monday, during the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ meeting on students’ eligibility to receive their...
View Article“The Heart of Teaching”
“The Heart of Teaching”jennifer_carli…Wed, 05/22/2024 - 17:24Howard Gardner ’65, Ph.D. ’71, first walked through Radcliffe Yard, where he today addressed the Graduate School of Education’s class of...
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