Featured series 
Tag: President
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Campus & Community
Gay sees in Harvard the courage to change the world
Harvard’s 30th president marks her inauguration with thanks to trailblazers who pushed University forward, hope for a future enriched by diversity, debate, and deep engagement with global challenges.
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Nation
‘Living witness’ to a country’s turbulent progress
Memoir details Drew Gilpin Faust’s coming-of-age amid the transformations of mid-century America.
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Campus & Community
‘I realized that I couldn’t say no — not because of personal ambition, but given the moment.’
Harvard’s 29th president shares memories and lessons from his early life and career.
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Campus & Community
On campus and beyond, rise of ‘natural leader’ cause for celebration
Claudine Gay’s election as Harvard’s next president was greeted with joy and praise by scholars on Thursday.
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Nation & World
No return to Camelot
The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser discusses her new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021.”
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Nation & World
Dark lessons of Jan. 6 Capitol assault
One year later, Harvard Kennedy School historian Alexander Keyssar reflects on the January 6 insurrection.
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Nation & World
Reining in growing powers of the presidency
Bob Bauer ’73 and Jack Goldsmith propose what they say are long-overdue reforms to the Office of the President.
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Nation & World
Is science back? Harvard’s Holdren says ‘yes’
The incoming Biden administration will hear science, Obama’s top science adviser said. It’s also important for scientists to engage in public debate about science.
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Nation & World
Hard lessons from a tough election
The Gazette asked scholars and analysts across the University to reflect on lessons learned in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
Legal experts shake their heads at GOP election suits
Legal experts say not to expect President Trump’s election suits to be successful, but they could prove useful to him in other ways.
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Health
Calculating possible fallout of Trump’s dismissal of face masks
Looking at the public health effects, and perhaps mortality rate, from President Trump’s running dismissal of wearing face masks to minimize the spread of coronavirus.
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Nation & World
When COVID and the election collided
Hospitalization, a shift in campaign messaging, and carrying on: Harvard faculty members and others discuss what may be ahead as President Trump’s COVID-19 battle ripples across America.
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Nation & World
Impeachment: What this means, where this leads
To gain a better understanding of the issues in play following the House impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Gazette asked Harvard faculty and affiliates in history, law, politics, government, psychology, and media to offer their thoughts.
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Campus & Community
Focusing on people and place
Alice Hill will be the first Australian and the first Canadian to lead the HAA, as well as the first from the Asia Pacific region. She plans to bring those perspectives to the table as president.
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Campus & Community
Bacow: ‘I am delighted to begin’
Larry Bacow was inaugurated as Harvard’s 29th president on Friday, the culmination of a two-day celebration that drew together faraway friends, colleagues from other universities, and members of the Harvard community for a range of events that ended with a block party.
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Campus & Community
Larry Bacow’s listening tour
New Harvard President Larry Bacow has been on a listening tour in advance of his inauguration Oct. 5.
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Campus & Community
Engaging alumni globally and personally
As Susan Morris Novick ’85 concludes her tenure as Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president, she is optimistic about the future of the HAA as she prepares to hand the reins to her successor, Margaret Wang ’09.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1.
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Campus & Community
Looking for a person, and perspective
Bill Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, shared his views on the progress so far in the search for Harvard’s 29th leader and how the consultative process can help set the agenda ahead.
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Campus & Community
For Faust, the road ahead
During her last year as Harvard president, Drew Faust said in an interview that she will focus on making the case for the University’s needs and values in Washington, ensuring progress on inclusion and belonging for all, completing The Harvard Campaign, and nurturing development of the emerging Allston campus.
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Campus & Community
Harvard launches presidential search
The Harvard Corporation has launched the search for a new president of Harvard University, in light of Drew Faust’s recent announcement that she will step down at the end of the 2017–18 academic year.
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Campus & Community
With Faust as template, thoughts on the next president
Harvard Corporation member explains where the search for Drew Faust’s successor will focus, and how it will work.
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Campus & Community
Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, has announced that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
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Nation & World
Debating the debates
On the eve of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Harvard analysts discuss whether presidential debates offer citizens civic value anymore and how to improve them as the nation navigates its political differences.
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Health
Ebola’s ripple effects
The fight to end the Ebola epidemic is not just about saving lives, it’s also about heading off a potentially broader humanitarian crisis, according to a Harvard Kennedy School panel.
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Nation & World
Harvard goes to Washington
Tuesday night’s national elections sent a number of Harvard alumni and affiliates off to Washington.
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Science & Tech
How Google sees the race
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a Ph.D. student in economics, uses Google Insights for Search, an online tool for extracting data from the millions of daily Google searches, and then uses statistical tools to analyze the data to gain insights on who is likely to vote and on voter turnout on Election Day.
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Nation & World
Harvard poll predicts Obama loss
A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Harvard Kennedy School finds more millennials predict President Barack Obama will lose his bid for re-election (36 percent) than win (30 percent).
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Campus & Community
A champion of democracy
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Kennedy School alumna who has restored stability to her war-torn nation, will be the speaker at Harvard’s 360th Commencement, a choice lauded by faculty.
