Gazette Features

Zakaria offers parting words

By Alvin Powell / May 24

Delivering Harvard’s Commencement address, journalist Fareed Zakaria told members of the Class of 2012 to trust themselves as they journey into a world that is more peaceful and contains more opportunities than ever before.

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.

An enterprising mind

By Katie Koch / May 25

Fresh off his own failed venture, Andrew Rosenthal still wanted to build things. At Harvard Business School, he helped to build a bridge between startup-minded students and the broader community.

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)."