Gazette Features

A poem for Harvard

By Corydon Ireland / May 24

Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to Harvard to read a poem at Morning Exercises. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, he will reprise his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” composed for the University’s 350th.

Home is where one starts out

By Marina Mary Armstrong Connelly ’12 / May 24

A student from Australia, far from home and legally blind, found her niche by singing in the Memorial Church choir.

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.

Coming Home to Cabot House: Krystal Tung '13

Video - 1:48 run time / May 2, 2012

Find out why Cabot House resident Krystal Tung ’13 says that the place where she lives is also the place where she explores, creates, connects, and, above all, learns.