Gazette Features

Board of Overseers election results

May 24

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The elected directors of the HAA were also announced on May 24.

Where the magic happens

By Sarah Sweeney / May 21

We asked several Harvard authors to talk about something different, not what’s in their books but where and how they write them. Here’s what they said.

Unraveling the secrets of the epilepsy diet

By R. Alan Leo / May 24

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a protein that plays a key role in the long-mysterious effectiveness of an extremely low-calorie, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet in suppressing epileptic seizures.

Ahead of the learning curve

By Katie Koch / May 24

From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform teaching and learning before Harvard celebrates its 400th?”

You’re all right, lefty

By Sarah Sweeney / May 24

On the baseball diamond, senior Brent Suter serves up pitches, and off the field he pitches service.

Love Poems

Video - 3:05 run time / May 2, 2012

Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in "Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story)."