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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....

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War, 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,...

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Celebrating 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...

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Notes 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...

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Reporting, 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...

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Harvard 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...

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Harvard 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...

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Overseer 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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