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“A Sense of Belonging”
Harvard’s Houghton Library to be renovatedA renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”Jacob SweetMay-June 2019 houghton-renovation-renewalTwo years after commemorating its seventy-fifth...
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Debating DiversityJohn S. RosenbergMay-June 2019 affirmative-action-admissionsTheStudents for Fair Admissions (SFFA) lawsuit alleging Harvard College bias against Asian-American applicants is now in...
View ArticleComing to Terms with Sexual Harassment
Winthrop House tensions and government department concernsJohn S. RosenbergMay-June 2019 sexual-harassmentFollowing the January news that Winthrop House faculty dean Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. would...
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University People
Harvardians: transitions, appointments, and honorsMay-June 2019 university-peopleGeneral Counsel TransitionsRobert W. IulianoCourtesy of Gettysburg CollegeSenior vice president and general counsel...
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News Briefs
ART to Allston and dual-degree decisionJohn S. RosenbergMay-June 2019 news-briefsPutting the A(RT) in AllstonOn February 25, the University announced that the $12.5-million ArtLab, an interdisciplinary...
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Brevia
New Corporation members, Adams House, other University newsMay-June 2019 breviaCorporation and Overseer CohortTimothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been...
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Howard Gardner et al. on higher education in the twenty-first centuryJohn S. RosenbergMay-June 2019 campuses-culturesAmerican colleges and universities are often seen as islands of political...
View ArticleNieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer PrizeJacob Sweet 2019 Pulitzer PrizeEliza Griswold, a 2007 Nieman Fellow and 2016-17 Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, was awarded the 2019...
View Article“Building on the Continuity”
“Building on the Continuity”Jean MartinMarina N. Bolotnikova 1969 strike conferenceThis story concerns the events at Harvard during the spring of 1969, when student anti-Vietnam War activists occupied...
View ArticleSarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of the Graduate School of DesignJonathan Shaw Whiting named deanSarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, has been named dean of the Harvard Graduate...
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Divest Harvard Makes Case for Dropping Fossil Fuels
Divest Harvard Makes Case for Fossil Fuel DivestmentMarina N. Bolotnikova Divest Harvard Makes Case for Fossil Fuel DivestmentA group of University community members—faculty, alumni, and the student...
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Harvard College student summer public-service initiativeJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard College unveils student summer public serviceDuring his inaugural address last October, President Lawrence S. Bacow...
View ArticleApollo 11, Up Close and Personal
Apollo 11, Up Close and PersonalJacob Sweet An exhibition in Houghton Library shows Apollo 11 in context, and at its most intimate.Fifty years after the first moon landing, it’s still hard to place the...
View ArticleThe Work of Art
The Work of ArtLydialyle Gibson Vision and Justice Radcliffe conferenceLate into the last evening of a sprawling two-day conference on art and race and culture and citizenship—and on the possibility of...
View ArticleAl Gore Named 2019 Class Day Speaker
Al Gore Named 2019 Class Day SpeakerMarina N. Bolotnikova Al Gore Named 2019 Class Day SpeakerPolitician and climate-change advocate Al Gore ’69, LL.D. ’94, will address the class of 2019 on College...
View ArticleEric Lander and Dan Chiasson at Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Eric Lander and Dan Chiasson at Harvard PBKJohn S. Rosenberg Eric Lander and Dan Chiasson at Harvard PBKThe Alpha Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will feature Dan Chiasson, Ph.D. ’01, as poet and Eric...
View ArticleHarvard Adopts Quantitative Reasoning, Studies Preregistration
Harvard adopts quantitative reasoning course, studies preregistrationJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard adopts quantitative reasoning course, studies preregistrationFacing an unusually full agenda during its...
View ArticleRadcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 Fellows
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 FellowsMarina N. Bolotnikova Radcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 FellowsThe Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s (RIAS) 2019-2020 cohort includes 55...
View ArticleJorge Domínguez Loses Emeritus Status after Misconduct Investigation
Jorge Domínguez Loses Emeritus StatusMarina N. Bolotnikova Jorge Domínguez Loses Emeritus StatusJorge Domínguez, formerly Madero professor for the study of Mexico and Harvard’s first vice provost for...
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What Harvard’s Highest-Paid Employees Made in 2017 Marina N. Bolotnikova What Harvard’s Highest-Paid Employees Made in 2017 As a nonprofit organization, Harvard is required to submit Form 990 to the...
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