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The Harvard AI Debate Heats Up🔥- The University has pushed the adoption of AI into teaching and operations, but faculty resistance is growing louder.

The Harvard AI Debate Heats Up | Harvard Magazine The University has pushed the adoption of AI into teaching and operations, but faculty resistance is growing louder.

Ever wonder why men's formalwear looks basically the same today as it did 150 years ago? Chloe Chapin, Ph.D. '23 has an answer—and the receipts.

A former Broadway costume designer (Equus, American Idiot, Hair) turned Harvard University fashion historian, Chapin's new book Suitable traces how American men's dress went from colorful and varied to uniformly black and plain in the 75 years after the Revolutionary War (what she calls "the shift from peacocks to penguins").

Along the way, she explains the Daniel Radcliffe conversation that first pulled her into the history of tuxedos.

Why Men Have Worn the Same Black Suits for 200 Years | Harvard Magazine Chloe Chapin trains her Broadway costume designer’s eye on the history of men’s fashion.

Court Blocks International Student Visa Rule - Citing improper procedure, a district judge postponed the government’s efforts to cap student visas at four years

Court Blocks International Student Visa Rule | Harvard Magazine Citing improper procedure, a district judge postponed the government’s efforts to cap student visas at four years.

Novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs '07 was headed for a career studying hurricane dynamics—until Harvard University's humor magazine, the Lampoon, rerouted him toward fiction.

Now a $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize winner, he talks Vienna coffeehouses, "Oulipian constraints," and writing his way out of shame.

"There's a long tradition of math majors getting derailed by the Lampoon," Ehrlich Sachs says.

How Adam Ehrlich Sachs Writes Absurd and Beautiful Fiction | Harvard Magazine The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.

Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences is undergoing its most significant reorganization in years—and it hasn't been quiet.

Facing a projected $350 million structural deficit, FAS leadership has rolled out a new "federated" department model, consolidated the College's administrative offices, mandated a return to five-day in-office work, and laid off dozens of staff, with more cuts expected through mid-August.

The changes also mean the end of the 90-year-old Dudley Community and its co-op, and the departure of the Writing Center's longtime director (moves that have drawn sharp criticism from faculty, staff, and alumni).

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Begins an Overhaul | Harvard Magazine Long-discussed reorganization includes layoffs and the end of the Dudley Community.

Who was J. Max Bond Jr. ’55, M.Arch. ’58, the Harvard University-trained architect designed major national landmarks—including the Martin Luther King Jr. Center and the National Museum of African American History and Culture?

How J. Max Bond Jr. Honored Black History Through Architecture | Harvard Magazine A new book explores the Harvard-trained architect’s vision and impact, from Ground Zero to the Smithsonian.

The Arctic is changing faster than almost anywhere on Earth. Harvard University’s Arctic Initiative, launched in 2017, brings together researchers to examine these problems and map out opportunities for action.

The Arctic Is Changing. What Does It Mean for Geopolitics? | Harvard Magazine Harvard’s Arctic Initiative brings together researchers from across disciplines to understand rapid warming.

An endowment launched in February to fund Ph.D. students in the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has reached its fundraising goal of $100 million, the division announced Thursday.

In a letter thanking donors, FAS Edgerly Family dean Hopi Hoekstra said the money would support fellowships for 50 doctoral students across all three segments of the school (science, social science, and arts and humanities), as well as in the Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

FAS Fund for Ph.D. Students Reaches $100 Million Goal | Harvard Magazine The division is launching a new fundraising effort to support 50 additional students.

Citing the need to prepare the next generation of leaders at a time of profound disruption, Harvard Law School (HLS) has launched the National Security Law and Policy Initiative (NSLPI), a program that gathers scholars, practitioners, and students to help shape the future of national security.

Led by faculty director Kristen E. Eichensehr, the Balthrop Cassidy professor of law, the initiative will organize events, host visiting fellows, and support law school course offerings, drawing on the expertise of HLS faculty affiliates and a bipartisan advisory board of former federal government officials.

The program’s launch on September 9 dovetailed with the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.

Harvard Law School Announces a New National Security Initiative | Harvard Magazine The program will focus on the U.S. Congress and the separation of powers in its first year.

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