Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Economics Facility
Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Harvard Economics FacilityJohn S. Rosenberg Penny Pritzker $100 Million New Harvard Economics BuildingPenny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation...
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Edgar James Banks
VitaEdgar James BanksBrief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945Nancy FreudenthalNovember-December 2021 feature-vita-edgar-james-banksWearing Arab robes, grasping a rifle, the...
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How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
How Myth and Memoir IntertwineElisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.Juliet IsselbacherNovember-December 2021 montage-elizabeth-sharp-mckettaElisabeth Sharp...
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People-Powered Journalism
People-Powered JournalismAt Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”Marina N. BolotnikovaNovember-December 2021 alumni-profile-amy-goodmanWith 20 years of hindsight, to many the U.S. war...
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Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored
Alumni Admissions Interviewers HonoredNovember-December 2021 alumni-admissions-interviewers-honoredThis year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—honoring Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, and retired admissions officer...
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2021 HAA Award Winners
2021 HAA Award WinnersNovember-December 2021 alumni-haa-award-winnersSix alumni have received the HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University.James E. BowersJames E. Bowers, J.D. ’70, of...
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The Food Waste Problem
The Food Waste ProblemEmily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.Jacob SweetNovember-December 2021 feature-waste-notFor one of the world’s leading experts on food waste, visiting a grocery store...
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The Art of the Portrait Painter
The Art of the Portrait PainterPortrait Painter Jason BouldinLydialyle GibsonNovember-December 2021 montage-jason-bouldinJason Bouldin ’89 always notices the hands: how they move when a person speaks,...
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Life After Brain Injury
Life After Brain InjuryLydialyle Gibson Carolyn Gold Brain Injury RecoveryCarolyn Gold’s memoir chronicling her long, slow recovery from a brain injury caused by West Nile encephalitis begins with a...
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Border Crossing
Border CrossingAuthor Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.Nancy Kathryn WaleckiJanuary-February 2022 montage-rudy-ruizThe story came to him the night he became a...
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A Democracy of Opportunity
A Democracy of OpportunityLiberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensionsJanuary-February 2022 montage-democracy-of-opportunityFranklin D. Roosevelt, A.B....
View ArticleWar, Misremembered
Open BookWar, MisrememberedJanuary-February 2022 montage-open-book-elizabeth-sametAfter wars end, they live on—in history, memory, culture, and societies’ subsequent choices. In a searching analysis,...
View ArticleCelebrating Alumni, Anew
Celebrating Alumni, AnewChanges afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meetingJanuary-February 2022 alumni-haa-annual-meeting-changesPlans are underway to create “exciting, dynamic programming” for the...
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The Poet of Old Age
The Poet of Old AgeDonald Hall, chronicler of lifeAdam KirschJanuary-February 2022 features-donald-hall-poetryWhen poets die young, youthfulness comes to seem like the essence of their work, the thing...
View ArticleNotes on Doctoring
Notes on DoctoringMichael Stanley and the covenant of medicineLydialyle GibsonJanuary-February 2022 alumni-michael-stanleyDuring his first year as a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was...
View ArticleReporting, with an M.B.A.
Reporting, with an M.B.A.Charles Duhigg unpacks how business and finance—and you—really work.Jonathan ShawJanuary-February 2022 features-charles-duhiggIn the history of stock market rallies and...
View ArticleHarvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”
Harvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”John S. Rosenberg Harvard Denaming PrinciplesThe Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming, appointed by President Lawrence S. Bacow in October 2020...
View ArticleHarvard Forward Won’t Contest 2022 Overseers’ Election
Harvard Forward Won’t Contest 2022 Overseers’ ElectionJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Forward not contesting Overseers 2022Harvard Forward, which organized alumni to place petition candidates on the annual...
View ArticleOverseer and Elected Director Slates Announced
Overseer and Elected Director Slates AnnouncedJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Overseer candidate slate 2022The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2022 candidate slates...
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Overseer Candidates State Their Views
Overseer Candidates State Their ViewsJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard 2022 Overseer Nominees’ PerspectivesIn light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of...
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the YearKristina DeMichele Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the YearThe Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented its 2022 Woman and Man of the Year...
View ArticleEarl Brown
VitaEarl BrownBrief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980Stephen EschenbachMarch-April 2022 features-vita-earl-brownOn December 22, 2020, Earl Brown ’24 became Harvard’s...
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A Verdant Cultural Retreat
A Verdant Cultural RetreatBoston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.Nell Porter BrownMarch-April 2022 h2-forest-hills-cemeteryBefore stepping through the Gothic Revival gates...
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Music and Language, Reconciled
Music and Language, ReconciledMatthew Aucoin on operaThomas Forrest KellyMarch-April 2022 montage-matthew-aucoin-operaReaders of the New York Review of Books who are also lovers of music—and who have...
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Meet the Candidates
Meet the CandidatesJohn S. RosenbergMarch-April 2022 alumni-overseer-candidates-2022The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of...
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Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather ObsessionThe Harvard graduate is the fastest-rising star in weather.Jacob SweetMarch-April 2022 features-matthew-cappucci-weatherMatthew Cappucci ’19 has never...
View ArticleLooking for the Real Stan Lee
Looking for the Real Stan LeeAbraham Riesman on comics, wrestling, and popular cultureDan KellyMarch-April 2022 alumni-abraham-riesmanSometime in the mid-1980s, comics, a centuries-old art form, became...
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A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts
A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic BeastsPainter Bradley Scott Davis in the wildLydialyle GibsonMarch-April 2022 montage-bradley-scott-davisWhen the conversation turns to frogs, wildlife artist Bradley...
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Mike Schur on the Good Life
Mike Schur on the Good LifeA humorous guide to philosophy, from a TV funnymanStuart MillerMarch-April 2022 montage-the-good-lifeMike Schur ’97 just loves philosophy. He favors Aristotle, but will also...
View ArticlePhilip Lovejoy to Step Down as Harvard Alumni Leader
Philip Lovejoy to Step Down as Harvard Alumni LeaderJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Alumni Executive Philip Lovejoy to RetirePhilip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)...
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