Colleagues express confidence, elation in selection of Hopi Hoekstra as next dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences! James Hanken was chatting with colleague Hopi Hoekstra at a Harvard faculty meeting this spring. “I said to her, ‘Are you going to be the next FAS dean?’ I had no inkling; I was not involved in…Continue Reading A ‘formidable’ choice
By Naomi Oreskes Dr. Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard and the author of “Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know About the Ocean.” As details emerged about the implosion last week of the Titan submersible in its descent to the wreck of the…Continue Reading This Myth About Innovation May Have Doomed the Titan
Hopi Hoekstra, an eminent life scientist who has served on the Harvard faculty since 2007, will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard President-elect Claudine Gay announced on Monday. Hoekstra is currently the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Organismic and…Continue Reading Hopi Hoekstra named next FAS dean
Economics professor Oliver S.D. Hart was made a knight by King Charles III, the British government announced last week. Hart, who received a 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in contract theory, was made a Knight Bachelor as part of the King’s birthday honors. The Knight Bachelor is the oldest knighthood in the United Kingdom. The…Continue Reading Economics Professor Oliver Hart Knighted By King Charles III
Mashail Malik was always interested in human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics. On a June evening in 2009, militants detonated a car bomb packed with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives near the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 17 and injuring…Continue Reading Car bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers
Two Harvard professors have won prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association. Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, was selected for the 2023 James Madison Award, a triennial honor recognizing a lifetime of distinguished scholarly contributions to the field of political science. “I understand it’s probably the highest…Continue Reading Theda Skocpol, Daniel Carpenter land prestigious political science awards
NYT Editorial by Tiya Miles It’s been two years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, one we can celebrate together as a nation. The signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021 was an expression of real progress in the collective understanding of Black struggle that reinforced our national ideals of…Continue Reading As Juneteenth Goes National, We Must Preserve the Local
Their eyes filled with tears, their mouths with accusations after losing a game of European handball. The fourth- and fifth-graders were so upset that they soon received counsel from a gym teacher. “You need to accept that this is how it goes, and not just say that they cheated,” he told them. “But they were…Continue Reading How schools teach children about their social station
Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1….Continue Reading Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president
