Gazette Features

Award honors beloved mentor

By Matthew McClellan / May 23

Students and faculty celebrated the inauguration of the Arthur P. Dempster Award. The award recognizes promising graduate students in the Statistics Department, especially those working in theoretical and foundational statistics.

A.R.T. reaps Tony Awards notice

By Colleen Walsh / May 23

Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), and her reimagined production of “Porgy and Bess” nabbed 10 Tony Award nominations, and another musical with ties to the A.R.T. grabbed 11.

Taking the long way home

By Alvin Powell / May 23

A Harvard graduate student has shown that some Australian and Pacific Island daddy longlegs took an unusual path to their new homes: drifting from the Americas and then island-hopping to their new continental home in Australia.

Power, personified

By Katie Koch / May 18

In a talk on his book “The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life,” Professor Roger Owen described how the Arab world’s dictators came to power — and how their curious political network helped fuel the eventual uprisings against some of them.

Building endurance, step by step

By Alvin Powell / April 6

Harvard Stadium is an iconic structure, and not just for the sports that happen on the field. To a community dedicated to running “the stadium steps,” the real athletes are in the stands.

Harvard student Kelsey Beck is Miss Boston 2012

Video - 1:58 run time / March 30, 2012

Kelsey Beck '14, was recently named Miss Boston and will be competing for the Miss Massachusetts title in late June.