A Decade of Faculty Diversity
A Decade of Faculty Diversity faculty diversity reportEvery year, Harvard tracks the diversity of its faculties in terms of race and gender, with the goal of increasing its numbers of female and...
View ArticleA Literary Wake for the Obama Era
In “Renga for Obama,” an exquisite corpse and a literary wakeSophia Nguyen renga for obamaThe United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman claimed in the preface to Leave...
View ArticleAdams House Will Be Renewed After Lowell
Adams House to be renewed adams house renewalAdams House will be the sixth undergraduate residence to be renewed, House faculty deans Judy and Sean Palfrey announced in an email today. The renewal,...
View ArticleAn Unpredictable Path to Student Unionization
An Unpredictable Path to Student UnionizationMarina N. Bolotnikova harvard union appeal nlrbHarvard has filed an objection to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) tentative decision last month...
View ArticleStudying Zika
Studying ZikaMatthew Disler Studying zika harvardTo understand the outbreak of a disease like Zika, and ultimately to fight it, researchers must work on multiple levels. There are questions of...
View ArticleReimagining Cabot Library
Reimagining Cabot LibraryOset Babür reimagining cabot library with penny pritzkerPrior to its redesign, the Cabot Science Library had opaque windows, uninviting first and second floors, and a lack of...
View ArticleHarvard Discloses Leaders’ Compensation
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ CompensationJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Discloses Leaders’ CompensationThe University today released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2015 (covering...
View ArticleHarvard Medical School Launches HMX
Harvard Medical School Launches HMXOset Babür Harvard Medical School Launches HMXHarvard Medical School (HMS) has joined the growing number of academic institutions that offer coursework online. Their...
View ArticleNew Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors Announced
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors AnnouncedOset Babür harvard overseers and and directors 2017The University today announced the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and the...
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Opening Commencement, “in Shadow and in Spring”
Sherry Turkle and Mark Doty speak at Harvard PBK Literary ExercisesSophia Nguyen commencement pbkHeralded by two musicians in knee-breaches playing fife and drums, graduating seniors and their...
View Article“The Value of Noticing”
2017 Baccalaureate urges the importance of active looking and listening Lydialyle Gibson commencement baccalaureate 2017“You have stood up and stood out,” President Drew Faust told the graduating...
View Article“There’s Nothing Beyond Our Capacity”
Joe Biden, to Harvard students: “There’s Nothing Beyond Our Capacity”Sophia Nguyen commencement class day joe bidenOn an intermittently overcast Class Day, former vice president Joseph R. Biden began...
View ArticleJohn Manning Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
Harvard Law names John Manning deanJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard Law names John Manning deanAs Harvard Law School (HLS) prepares to celebrate its bicentennial year, it will do so under new leadership....
View ArticleFred Glimp, a Harvard Legend, Dies at 91
Fred Glimp, a Harvard legend, dies at 91 fred glimp harvard legend, dies at 91Idaho high-school graduate Fred Glimp was serving in the Army Air Corps in Germany after World War II when he decided to...
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Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education
Harvard launches engineering-business degreeJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard launches engineering-management degreeThe most interesting new collaboration at Harvard—between the schools of business (HBS) and...
View ArticleTracy K. Smith ’94 Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Library of Congress names Harvard alumna Tracy K. Smith as new Poet LaureateSophia Nguyen tracy k smith us poet laureateTRACY K. SMITH ’94 has been named the new U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of...
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Harvard President Drew Faust to Step Down in 2018
Harvard President Faust stepping down 2018John S. Rosenberg Harvard President Faust stepping down 2018Drew Gilpin Faust, who assumed office as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1, 2007,...
View ArticlePending Business: Social Organizations
News BriefsHarvard College final club sanctionsJohn S. RosenbergJonathan ShawJuly-August 2017 pending-business-social-organizationsSeparately, at the May 2 meeting, FAS members adopted changes to the...
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Brevia
Harvard Law dean, House leaders, executives’ compensationJuly-August 2017 breviaHeads of HousesLakshminarayanan “Maha” Mahadevan and Amala MahadevanPhotograph courtesy of Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and...
View ArticleEducation, Ever More Online
News BriefsHarvard online learning updateJohn S. RosenbergJuly-August 2017 education-ever-more-onlineHarvardX, the online course initiative, has begun piloting the disaggregation of contents—course...
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